[texbirds] Re: Texas County Big Years?
- From: Susan Schaezler <warblerwoods@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "kennya290@xxxxxxxxx" <kennya290@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 12:35:42 -0600
I just looked out of curiosity and Warbler Woods Bird Sanctuary had 211
species last year on Ebird. When I get a chance, I'll look to see what we did
other years. It wasn't a remarkable year and we rarely get waterfowl.
My Father has fractured his hip, so I will be dealing with that for awhile. If
you can help observe and feed when I have to run out of town, let me know. The
birds get fed daily year round.
Susan Schaezler
WarblerWoods.org
501(c)(3) Cibolo/Schertz/Guadalupe County
Lone Star Land Steward Winner 2011. GCBO Site Partner
Life member TOS, SAAS, TAS
> On Jan 4, 2014, at 11:47 AM, Kenny Anderson <kennya290@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The Austin area is flooded with California transplants. My advice to folks
> down at the coast is to let them think they have it made in the sunshine
> state.
> Travis County could only produce 310-320 on the very best conditions/best
> year.
>
> Kenny
> Gloomy and birdless Austin
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Clay Taylor
> <Clay.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: texbirds-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:texbirds-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> On Behalf Of David Sarkozi
>> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 9:33 AM
>> To: TexBirds
>> 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?
>>
>> --
>> David Sarkozi
>> Houston, TX
>> (713) 412-4409 twitter ID dsarkozi
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