I can go to the lagoon Sat morning but have company coming Sat afternoon. See
yawl at the lagoon gate at 8 am. Maybe Duncan Lake can be counted also Diane
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Subject: [missbird] Call To Action
Hello MissBirders,
This upcoming Saturday is the global big day hosted by the Cornell Lab of
Ornithology. If you are unfamiliar with the big day, you can click on the link
at the bottom of this email for all the details of the event. While looking
through the data I noticed that Mississippi was greatly underrepresented.
Mississippi ranked 49th out of 50 states.
This is not due to the fact that we don’t have the species; it is just a lack
of participation. I highly encourage everyone to at least post a backyard list
this Saturday. The white-breasted nuthatch at your feeder could be the only one
reported in the state that day! If we get good participation and a little luck
from the migrants we could theoretically reach 250 species. That would be 101
more species than were reported last year. If we want to fully represent our
home state we will need some coordination. There are some birds that are
obviously going to be a little more difficult to locate on Saturday than
others, so we will need to divide and conquer. If we are going to rank well in
the U.S. we will need to cover all major areas from the coast to the north
delta, and everywhere in between. That sounds like a major undertaking, but
that is where you are wrong! If you click the link at the bottom of the email
where Cornell has compiled a map of where everyone plans to bird on Saturday.
You can add your area to the map, and we can make sure that we aren’t all
chasing red-cockaded woodpeckers, or red knots. I am confident that if
everyone birds their local patch on Saturday we will climb in the rankings
drastically. It would be amazing if we could reach this goal of 250 birds, but
that goal is unlikely if we do not have full participation.
If you have a good patch that produces some oddities, I encourage you to go
bird it this Saturday. Maybe we could even reward/recognize a random birder for
their efforts, we will see!
More Details
<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/globalbigday/>
http://ebird.org/content/ebird/globalbigday/
Where will you be birding?
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Best Birding,
Jeff Hill
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