[TN-Bird] Re: IMBD-NAMC
- From: Arthur_McDade@xxxxxxx
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:26:22 -0700
And, by the way, David Trently will be leading a "hawk watch" tomorrow,
Sept. 20th, at the Obed Wild and Scenic River in Morgan County, TN from
1:30pm until 4 PM. Everyone is cordially invited to come out to the Lilly
Bluff Overlook in the Obed WSR to watch with David and the NPS staff.
Anyone interested can contact me off net.
Arthur McDade
National Park Service
Obed WSR
Wartburg, TN
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Tomorrow, Saturday September 20, is the fall version of International
Migratory Bird Day - North American Migration Count. I hope all birders in
Tennessee are aware of this and planning to keep track of their sightings.
Ideally, you would spend the day keeping a count of all birds identified,
where and when you saw them, miles driven and walked, etc. (same
information
needed for a Christmas Bird Count).
If you can't spend a whole day counting is it still worth collecting data?
YES!!! Even if you only count birds in your backyard, the data can be
included
in the totals for your county. (if you are the only person counting in your
county, your totals may not be included in the table published in The
Migrant,
but your efforts will be appreciated!)
Feel like you aren't qualified to identify all the birds you see/hear? No
problem! Even if you only identify 50% of what you find, turn in those
numbers! That's been than 0%! I think a lot of newer birders don't take
part
in counts because they are worried that they don't know all the birds. But
the
more you get out there and try to learn them, the better. As long as you're
certain of an identification, it is worth knowing about it. In some ways,
counting the most common birds (e.g., starlings, jays, crows, even House
Sparrows) is more important than finding the single rare warbler in your
county. More information can be obtained from year to year trends of the
numbers of common birds - Are crow numbers dropping because of West Nile
Virus? Are House Sparrow numbers dropping, as they are in England?....
So please get out there and contribute to this great body of knowledge.
Send
data to the state IMBD compiler Ron Hoff at dollyron@xxxxxxxxx
....be sure to be on the lookout for migrating Browd-winged Hawks. TOS
member
Andy Jones (in school in Minnesota) forwarded to me a report of over
100,000
hawks flying over Hawk Ridge in Duluth on the 15th! Can you imagine that
sight??? (and since I mentioned Hawk Ridge...you should make a trip up
there
in the winter. It's really balmy, warm, hot....right Ivan, Susan, Audrey,
Andy? ;-)
David Trently,
Knoxville, TN
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