[texbirds] Re: Texas County Big Years?
- From: Steven Glover <stevenglover99@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 11:57:48 -0600
Hi all,
It isn't only San Diego County to contend with:
L.A. - 357
Santa Barbara - 358
San Luis Obispo - 345
Monterey 353
Each of those counties is larger than the contenders in Texas and certainly
have a greater habitat diversity.
But what of Marin County? The big year record there is 362 and that county
has only 520 square miles of land. The only exotics countable in Marin are
Ring-necked Pheasant, Wild Turkey, Rock Pigeon, Eurasian Collared-Dove,
European Starling and House Sparrow.
And, for entertainment value, San Francisco County has only 46.9 extremely
urbanized square miles and yet a big year of 273. This does not include the
Farallon Islands.
The single day big day records of many California counties are almost
surely unreachable in Texas:
Los Angeles - 224
San Diego - 217
Monterey - 208
Humboldt (way up north!) - 193
On the other hand, the statewide big day record set this past spring by the
Ebird team cannot be touched in California. Hell, it may never even be
touched in Texas again. Phenomenal!
Steve Glover
Fort Worth
On Sat, 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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