[TN-Bird] Re: hooded crane countability
- From: Kevin Breault <Kevin.Breault@xxxxxxxx>
- To: "terrywitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <terrywitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, tn-bird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:12:48 +0000
Apparently, John and other birders he talked to must have thought the bird was
not on the TX list when he was considering whether it should be counted, but at
this point I think it would be more appropriate for me to drop out of this
discussion and leave it to him and others to consider what he said about the
issue on his blog.
But the issue of Big Year totals may be of more general interest. While most
people put Sandy Komito down as having 745 in his Big Year, if you add birds he
identified in the year but were not then countable then he has 748. As I have
suggested to John I would agree that Sandy certainly has 748 but for reasons of
comparability we should perhaps only consider the number of countable birds in
the year of the Big Year. The problem is that if we add birds that became
countable after the Big Year, then we must do that for everyone's Big Year, and
it becomes difficult if not impossible to keep the records straight--or
standardized. What really was Vandaman's Big Year, or that of Al Levantin and
Greg Miller, to name just a few on the all-time list of Big Years? Of course,
what this means is that there are really two lists of all-time Big Years, one
of birds seen within the year, and the other, arguably less comparable for
historical reasons, of birds currently countable. An interesting conundrum!
Kevin Breault
Brentwood, TN
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Terry Witt [terrywitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 9:14 AM
To: tn-bird
Subject: [TN-Bird] hooded crane countability
Not to beat a dead horse but
Aplomado Falcon is on the official Texas list as of July 27, 2011
Terry Witt
Murfreesboro Tn
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