[texbirds] Re: County Year (TOS Has The Answer)
- From: Tad Finnell <tadcipiter@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 21:45:16 -0600
On 1/4/2014 2:49 PM, Clay Taylor wrote:
> How many pelagic species would they get in a typical year - 25 or 30? We
> can get 3 or 4 shearwaters, 3 sulids, tropicbirds, all 3 (?) jaegers, and a
> couple of storm-petrel species offshore in the Gulf. That only gives them a
> 20-bird advantage.
>
> We need mountains.....
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> Clay Taylor
> TOS Life Member
> Calallen (Corpus Christi), TX
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: texbirds-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:texbirds-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Brush Freeman
> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 2:29 PM
> To: Ron Weeks
> Cc: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [texbirds] Re: County Year (TOS Has The Answer)
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> We would smear them if they did not have all their offshore pelagics....:-)
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> Brush Freeman
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> http://texasnaturenotes.blogspot.com/
> Finca Alacranes., Utley,Texas
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> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Ron Weeks <ronweeks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> David,
>>
>> I find it interesting you cite eBird data but not the more applicable
>> TOS Century Club web page. Even though stale/abandoned, it shows the
>> county Big Year efforts in Texas. The biggest county year listed is
>> 345 by Jon McIntyre for Nueces County in 2011. And having done a
>> serious county Big Year and only reaching 332, I feel that Jon's
>> effort is near the maximum potential. Clay Taylor hit the nail on the
>> head - no Texas county can touch the diversity of habitat and birds of San
>> Diego County.
>>
>> Ron Weeks
>> Lake Jackson
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Are you including gulls, Skua, and Fulmar as pelagics? That's at least
10 more species!
Tad Finnell
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