birding-aus

the Great Backyard Bird Count

To: <>
Subject: the Great Backyard Bird Count
From: "Philip Veerman" <>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 22:21:24 +1100
There appears to be a tradition both in Europe and USA of doing annual
Northern Hemisphere bird counts in (the middle of) winter or as a christmas
day count. And publishing these results. It perplexes me too as to why they
do that then. Maybe because it is easier without all the (more difficult to
identify) migrants such as the warblers, that would be present in their
summer. Maybe they are interested in tracking the population changes of
resident species. 

Philip

-----Original Message-----
From: Birding-Aus  On Behalf Of
Laurie Knight
Sent: Sunday, 16 February 2014 3:22 PM
To: 
Subject: No submissions from Darwin,Broome or the bulk of the
outback for the Great Backyard Bird Count


So far about 31,000 checklists have been submitted today.  (I put in  
two for my neighbourhood).  If you look at the map
(http://ebird.org/ebird/gbbc/livesubs?siteLanguage=en 
  ), you can see the checklists being submitted in real time -  
obviously a lot coming in from the USA.  There is fairly good coverage  
of NZ and southern India, but outback Aus observations are few and far  
between.

The number of species reported is currently 2713, so they are a fair  
bit behind last year's total of 4258 species.  I suspect there are  
over 200 Australian species that could easily be added to the list by  
people who have been out this weekend (any pelagics?)

The one question I have is why did the Audubon society choose February  
(the depths of winter in the northern hemisphere) for its annual  
birdcount?  Perhaps they were hoping for strong participation rates  
from southern observers?

Regards, Laurie.


On 13/02/2014, at 6:19 PM, Laurie Knight wrote:

> The Great Backyard Bird Count is Feb. 14-17.  According to the 
> following article, birders in 100 countries will be participating ... 
> http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/11/global-backyard-b
> ird-count/5233847/
>
> The deal is that participants do 15+ min bird list for a geographic 
> location and load their sightings on  www.birdcount.org
>
> Regards, Laurie.


_______________________________________________
Birding-Aus mailing list

To change settings or unsubscribe visit:
http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
Admin

The University of NSW School of Computer and Engineering takes no responsibility for the contents of this archive. It is purely a compilation of material sent by many people to the birding-aus mailing list. It has not been checked for accuracy nor its content verified in any way. If you wish to get material removed from the archive or have other queries about the archive e-mail Andrew Taylor at this address: andrewt@cse.unsw.EDU.AU