Years ago a group of birders from Adelaide did their twitchathon by
BIKE. I'd love to see a Human Powered category back in the event.
Russell Woodford
Birding-Aus List Owner
Geelong Victoria Australia
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On 29/10/2008, at 12:33 PM, Chris Sanderson wrote:
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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