[obol] Re: Oregon is Woodpecker Wonderland!
- From: Joel Geier <joel.geier@xxxxxxxx>
- To: Oregon Birders OnLine <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 11:45:13 -0800
Hi Tom & all,
I don't have the new NG guide so was looking at Sibley's Field Guide to
Birds of Western North America.
One caveat is that I counted Yellow-bellied Sapsucker as not "out of
range" since there is a regular pattern of occurrence, though they are
fairly rare. So to be more of a stickler, that brings it down to 15.
Also the ranges for quite a few of the species barely graze the borders
-- or in a few cases, depending on the printing, might miss them by so
small a distance that you couldn't draw a line between the depicted edge
of the range and the border, with the double-nought pen in your
Rapidograph drafting set (for folks who are old enough to know what
those are). So in a few cases it might be more accurate to say, "without
wandering more than 5 miles out of the depicted range."
The fact that so many woodpecker species have ranges that come right up
to the edges, but not far into this state/province, is perhaps the best
clue.
Happy birding,
Joel
On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 09:50 -0800, Joel Geier wrote:
> There have been some good guesses.
>
> One way to get to the right answer is to consider which state/province
> occupies the gaps in range among the most woodpecker species.
>
> You don't actually need to look at rare-bird records to deduce the
> answer, if you assume that Steve has accurately listed all of the
> runners-up. This place gets to 16 just based on woodpeckers/sapsuckers
> that are expected to occur without wandering out of range.
>
> Happy guessing,
> Joel
>
> --
> Joel Geier
> Camp Adair area north of Corvallis
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