[obol] county listing in other states
- From: "Paul Sullivan" <paultsullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <cobol@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:01:47 -0700
Stefan mentions county listing in Minnesota. I keep track of birding there.
They have 82 counties, mostly small. Yet they have 3 people who have
reached the 200-in-every-county benchmark.
Consider working toward that level in every slice of Oregon that has 20
townships - it's like doing it 20 times in each National Forest of Oregon.
Good birding, even if you don't keep any list,
Paul Sullivan
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Subject: Re: Goal met -- 200 species in every Oregon county
Date: Tue Sep 30 2014 22:39 pm
From: greenfant AT hotmail.com
Paul, congratulations on this great achievement! Nobody is even close in OR.
Has anyone else even reached 150 yet? Btw, the OR listing results are here:
http://www.orbirds.org/listing...
Just for reference, Tom Mansfield is about to crack the 200 barrier in WA
any day now (last I heard he was 1 short in Wahkiacum). A few folks in WA
have reached 175. The WA listing results can be found here:
http://www.wabirder.com/online...
If you think you are nuts, Paul, look at CA. The county birder page with
those neat maps is here: http://www.sterlingbirds.com/c... John Luther was
at 232 by beginning of the year ...
County birding seems to be particular popular on the West Coast, largely
since there is a "manageable" number of counties. Look at TX for example,
where there are 254 counties. County birding from hell, I would say. Even
for Paul ... :-) Other states like AZ only have 15 counties. There it is
probably less interesting to take the 100-a-county challenge.
A few other states like MN (http://moumn.org/cgi-bin/countylist.pl?op=cunty)
and FL (http://www.flcountylisting.com...) also do it. There are likely many
more that I'm not aware. Maybe this is an appeal for Paul to do a write-up
for Oregon Birds. :-]
Stefan SchlickHillsboro, OR
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