Data for 30 TN Christmas Bird Counts is now accessible under Current Year's Results at the central CBC database (link info below). This total is the most ever to be represented in a single CBC season for TN. It is to be hoped that all remaining CBCs conducted in the state, but not represented in the CBC database, will soon be brought into the CBC fold. The species total for all TN CBCs conducted during the most recent CBC season is somewhere between 150 and 155. This uncertainty results from lack of any documentation, or inconclusive documentation, for some rare species, namely Black Scoter, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Bewick's Wren, and Gray Catbird. If you reported any of these species for a TN count conducted during the past CBC season, please make an effort to get documentation about it to your CBC compiler as soon as possible; if such documentation is not soon forthcoming, one or more of these species may be deleted from the count(s) on which it is now listed. However, since the CBC database is now online, any or all of these species can later be returned to the database if documentation appears in the future. As always, many thanks to the several hundred participants on the most recent TN CBCs, and special thanks to the 27 compilers whose work to collect and to enter the CBC data is vital to the success of this imporant bird-monitoring project, the longest running of its kind. Steve Stedman Editor of CBCs, TN American Birds Link info: http :// www. audubon. org/ bird/ cbc/ (delete the six spaces in this address and then copy it into your browser). =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds you report were seen. The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should appear in the first paragraph. _____________________________________________________________ To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. ______________________________________________________________ TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------ Assistant Moderator Andy Jones Cleveland, OH ------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Dave Worley Rosedale, VA __________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ EXCELLENT MAP RESOURCES Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________