[obol] Jackson County Birdathon results
- From: Forrest English <forrest.english@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: OBOL Oregon Birders Online <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 13:27:40 -0700
This last weekend was the Rogue Valley Audubon Birdathon, a 6pm to 6pm big
day event in Jackson County. For those of you that weren't already
participating, we're always looking for more folks to join the absurdist
fun and we hope to see you next year! ;)
While I'm not sure my ears are all that great, I think we did pretty well
considering the wind (gusting to 23 mph) likely knocked down some of our
species. Best bird for us was a White-throated Swift that unfortunately was
not countable as it was spotted by only one team member
and disappeared quickly. A number of other species turned up though to get
us a decent 154 species total.
We also had some very odd misses like Western Tanager, Cedar Waxwing,
Lincoln's Sparrow, Orange-crowned Warbler and Dusky Flycatcher.
Our total list for the day (including 2 species seen only by 1 person) can
be seen on our ebird checklist:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S13998271
Below is a summary from Jeff Tufts that I'm including from the Rogue Valley
Birds list.
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From: Jeff Tufts <tallahto@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, May 5, 2013 at 6:04 AM
Subject: [RV Birds] Great Grays top Birdathon with 154 species
To: rv-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
With young guns Forrest English and Frank Lospalluto lending their
considerable aural faculties, the Great Grays saw/heard 154 species to win
the 2013 edition of the Rogue Valley Audubon Birdathon. The 24-hour
Jackson County-wide count began at 6 p.m. Friday and ended at the same time
Saturday.
The Great Grays team also included Bob Hunter, Brian Barr, and business
manager and cheerleader Gretchen Hunter. Their admirable total not only
bested their runners-up mark of last year by 10, it also ranks as the
second best total ever in the event. Last year's winning team, the Falcons
(who did not compete this year because of personal commitments), recorded
162 species to break their own record of 153.
Runners-up this year were the Binosaurs (they're grayer than the Great
Grays but still sharp after all those years) who tallied 133 species. Led
by Capt. Norm Barrett, the team also included Gary Shafrer, Jim Livaudais
and Howard Sands.
Five teams took part in Birdathon which is an important fund-raising event
for Rogue Valley Audubon.
Other competing groups--all in the We Don't Sleep In The Mountains
Division--were the Old World Warblers (Edith Lindner, Maggi Rackley and
Kathy Simonson) who had 92 species, the Wandering Tattlers (Anne Goff, Goly
Ostovar and Sooney Viani) who recorded 80, and the Restive Wrens (Nancy
Menken and Kate Cleland-Sipfle) who had 52 in only eight hours of counting.
No exceptional species were seen, but there were some remarkable "misses."
Not one Western Tanager was seen or heard by any of the groups. That
must be a Birdathon first. Also not found were Lincoln's Sparrows and the
notoriously fickle Cedar Waxwings. The Binosaurs inexplicably did not
locate a single Empid Flycatcher. I guess Empidonax difficilis has a new,
all-encompassing meaning, for their team.
Complete details and results will be in the next issue of The Chat.
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