Craig,
The Cascade Crest neatly divides the state. County lines fall there. That
puts both Hood River and Klamath counties in Eastern Oregon. So there’s 18
counties in each half.
In answer to Wayne’s post I was able to fairly quickly go to my spreadsheet and
separate the two sides and tally my sightings for each half. I came up with W
Oregon: 403; E. Oregon:359. If one had to slice counties it would make the
effort a lot more work. One would have to dig through old records to decide
where to place some individual sightings.
Paul
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Subject: Re: [obol] Re: Proposal for 2 new listing categories for OBA lists
Intriguing, and of course one doesn't need to participate if he/she doesn't
think it's a good idea.
I'm wondering if Hood River and Klamath would be divided, and just where the
line would be drawn on the south side of the state.
Craig Miller
Bend
On Dec 31, 2015 9:28 PM, "Paul Sullivan" <paultsullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:paultsullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
What do others think of this idea? If you have your lists in digital form, it
is probably easy to pull out your totals for the East and West side of the
state. If your data is on paper, it may be more work to come up with these
numbers.
It’s not a lot of work to add two lines to the data submission form or to
compile a couple more numbers from those who want to report these totals.
Paul Sullivan
Listing compiler
From: Wayne Weber [mailto:contopus@xxxxxxxxx ;<mailto:contopus@xxxxxxxxx> ]
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Subject: Proposal for 2 new listing categories for OBA lists
Oregon Birders,
I would like to propose a couple of new listing categories for the listing
stats section in OREGON BIRDS. I have suggested this privately at least twice
over the last 15 years or so to 2 different list administrators, but have not
had a positive response, so I’m putting it out in public to see what kind of
response there is.
The new listing categories I’m suggesting would be “Western Oregon” (e.g., all
counties west of the Cascade crest) and “Eastern Oregon” (all counties east of
the Cascade crest), with 18 counties in each region. I have long felt that
birders living east of the Cascades are at a disadvantage in building a big
state list, because many species are found only in coastal regions, and a
disproportionate share of rarities are also found west of the Cascades (if only
because there are more birders there looking for them). Having a new “Eastern
Oregon” category would allow us to see who are the top listers in this
generally under-birded area— it may be somewhat different from the top
statewide listers!
In Washington, the newsletter (and now the website) WASHINGTON BIRDER (which
can be seen at www.wabirder.com <http://www.wabirder.com> ) has had separate
list categories for many years for Western Washington and Eastern Washington,
and I think it would make sense to do the same for Oregon.
I had planned to make this suggestion on OBOL some time ago, but events in the
last month postponed my posting. I realize that even if approved, it may be too
late to implement a new set of listing areas for 2015 lists (which need to be
sent in early in 2016), but I hope it could be implemented in time for 2016
lists.
And in case anyone cares, my lifetime lists are 259 for Eastern Oregon, 307 for
Western Oregon, and 366 statewide. (I don’t keep year lists, although I know
many of you do.) I have a few fairly easy potential additions left, especially
in Eastern Oregon, but after that it will start to get a lot harder.
Happy New Year, everyone, and I will be interested to see if there is much
support for my suggestion.
Good luck and good birding,
Wayne C. Weber
Delta, BC
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