[texbirds] Re: Texas County Big Years?
- From: Clay Taylor <Clay.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "david@xxxxxxxxxxx" <david@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Texbirds <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 12:10:38 -0500
David et al -
I was stunned when I Googled the area of San Diego County - 4,526 sq miles
(11,722 km²)!!! That is more than Nueces (1166), Kleburg (1090) and Kenedy
(1946) combined (4202), and only slightly less than those 3 + San Patricio
County (+ 707 = 4909) or Aransas County (+ 528 makes 4730 total). Wow!
I think that the area / habitat mix of San Diego County, CA is just a bit too
much for any of our single TX counties - at least of those I am familiar with.
That county is HUGE, and covers a LOT of different habitats AND altitudes -
ocean, salt marshes, urban landscape, riparian, grasslands, agricultural,
foothills, mountain coniferous, desert, etc.
Now, if we combine the four TX counties above, we still do not have the habitat
diversity (no snow-covered mountains that I have ever found here), but we might
be able to give SD a run. Can you tally up a combined Bird List for those 4?
Clay Taylor
TOS Life Member
Calallen (Corpus Christi), TX
Clay.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: [texbirds] Texas County Big Years?
I was just reading on the ABA FB page there was a San Diego County, CA big year
record of 387. It got me wondering, would a total that high be possible in a
Texas County? Texas Counties, especially coastal ones, average smaller than
California Counties, that may be just too big of a handicap. I looked at some
numbers from 2013 in eBird and looking at some random counties I though would
be candidates I found the following (County species reported/high count for one
observer?
Cameron 357/295
Nueces 345/307
Harris 337/280
Hildalgo 332/303
Aransas 330/241
Galveston 331/280
Travis 328/300
Bexar 327/282
Brazoria 324/279
Calhoun 320/255
Matagorda 309/248
Jefferson 308/300
Clearly the key is coverage and coastal, although the big urban counties also
do well. the best county was 30 off the CA record. Is there enough meat on the
bone in these Texas counties to top the CA record some day?
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David Sarkozi
Houston, TX
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