[wisb] Update on GBBC

From: Cutright.Noel <Noel.Cutright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:58:17 +0000

Thanks so much for your participation throughout the GBBC Weekend, and the 
weather cooperated allowing folks to get out and about. It is has been an 
interesting count thus far.

As of noon today, 74,868 checklists have been received, compared to 64,449 at 
this time last year. Participants have reported 594 different species and over 
10.5 million individual birds. Encouragingly, European Starling has fallen from 
the #1 spot as the most commonly reported bird and is now in 5th behind Snow 
Goose, Red-winged Blackbird, Canada Goose, and Common Grackle. Overall, it 
should prove to be a record-breaking year in terms of participation and birds 
counted. As expected, the Snowy Owl has been amazing this year-420 of them so 
far from as far south as Kansas and Missouri.  There have been other 
interesting occurrences-Common Redpolls in Texas, Common Murres in Connecticut, 
and a Calliope Hummingbird in Indiana. 

In Wisconsin , we are far past the previous species count of 123 set in 2010.  
We'll just have to wait to see how high we'll be in the 130s once all 
checklists have been entered.  Please remember that you only have until March 
5th to submit your reports.

Thanks for your participation, but I am getting a little bored over validating 
all of the early Sandhill Crane records.  Noel Cutright, Ozaukee County   
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