Could Australia top the Great Backyard Bird Count?

[Laurie Knight <>]

Simple Philip

If you visit the website you will see that the count is not limited to  
backyards.  The name is a misnomer.
Regards, Laurie.

On 16/02/2014, at 5:27 PM, Philip Veerman wrote:

> I am the author of I believe the most comprehensive account of an  
> urban bird
> population study in Australia, for Canberra (that also lists  
> literature
> available at the time from other cities), so that is a basis for  
> writing
> something. I am a little lost at the suggestion here of including  
> pelagic
> species in a comparison to a Great Backyard Bird Count.
>
> Philip
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Birding-Aus  On  
> Behalf Of
> Laurie Knight
> Sent: Sunday, 16 February 2014 3:40 PM
> To: 
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Could Australia top the Great Backyard Bird  
> Count?
>
> I've just had a look at the national totals of species observed -
> http://ebird.org/ebird/gbbc/places?yr=all&m=
>
> The United States has the most species - 578 on the back of 34,000  
> lists
> India is second with 434 species from just 893 lists Australia is  
> third with
> 430 species from only 396 lists.
>
> If we can get lists in from around Australia (including the external
> territories) and from any pelagic trips run this weekend, it is quite
> conceivable that Australia could top the species count.  Now that
> would be something.
>
> Regards, Laurie.
>
>
> On 16/02/2014, at 2:21 PM, Laurie Knight wrote:
>
> > 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-bird-co
> unt/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.

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