Could Australia top the Great Backyard Bird Count?

[Laurie Knight <>]

Well, at the close of day 3 in Aus,

The USA has 590 from 34,925 lists
India has 481 species from 1,072 lists
Australia has  442 species from 496 lists

The USA will probably have another 10,000+ lists by this time  
tomorrow, but probably not a lot more additional species.
The distribution of Australian lists doesn't match the distribution of  
species in Aus - we don't have much participation outside of the  
eastern sea board.
Interestingly, there appears to be little participation in South  
America, Africa and northern Europe.
Regards, Laurie.


On 16/02/2014, at 2:39 PM, Laurie Knight wrote:

> 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-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.
> > >
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