Hi all,
I believe rushing about madly is not strictly necessary (unless you want to
beat the very high scores of those who do) to see a lot of birds. I heard a
rumour a QLD twitchathon group saw over 90 birds at one site on the weekend.
Regards,
Chris
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Grant Brosie <>wrote:
> Everyone,
>
> I agree with Lawrie. Its amazing how many common birds one misses when
> rushing from spot to spot instead of dedicating time to one spot. One of the
> joys of the race I guess. In saying that, several years ago Nick Livanos and
> I entered the very popular 5hr Twitch up here in the Hunter and scored 114
> species (pretty sure that was the total, if not somewhere close) restricting
> ourselves to the Newcastle City Council boundaries, which I'm guessing is a
> much smaller area then Singapore, but with a fraction of the population.
>
> Cheers,
> Grant Brosie
>
>
> --- On Wed, 29/10/08, Lawrie Conole <> wrote:
>
> > From: Lawrie Conole <>
> > Subject: [Birding-Aus] Singapore Twitchathon
> > To: "Birding Aus" <>
> > Received: Wednesday, 29 October, 2008, 10:30 AM
> > Carl Clifford wrote:
> >
> > >metropolitan area) and a population density of nearly
> > 6800 per Sq. Km.
> > >Perhaps running madly around the countryside is not the
> > best technique
> > >in a Twitcathon.
> >
> > Maybe if Australia was the size of Singapore you'd be
> > right! Our ~700
> > regular bird species are somewhat spread out over a large
> > continent -
> > running madly about is more or less mandatory if you want
> > to see more than
> > 50-100 species.
> >
> > The last time I participated in the Victorian Twitchathon
> > was in 2003, when
> > we won the 8-hour event with 156 species. We stayed within
> > about 100km of
> > Melbourne during the 8 hours, and did much less mad running
> > about than we
> > were used to in the 24-hour event, but still considerably
> > more movement than
> > your average Singaporean Twitchathon-er.
> >
> > By the way, I note that our old 8-hour total hasn't
> > been matched yet - an
> > incentive for some in the coming 2008 Vic Twitchathon ;-)
> >
> >
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