Surely that acronym has to be pronounced "quack".
Roger.
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In South Africa we do the Coordinated Waterbird Counts (CWAC) twice a year
to keep tabs on the
numbers for each species for each reserve where the counts happen. These
only count waterbirds
though and take place in specific reserves. There are separate counts for
bush birds as well...
Regards,
Gordon King
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On 16/02/2014 13:21, Philip Veerman wrote:
> 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: [Birding-Aus] 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.
>
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