It appear someone did not do a very good job announcing the second NTT
cound. I was a participant in number 1 but was not informed of the second
one.





At 01:46 PM 2/1/97 -0500, you wrote:
>I post this for all those who may be interested. My husband and I submitted
>a report from one of our Spencer Island field trips. JMEYER
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>Forwarded message:
>From: wbc at wnn.or.jp (NTT World Bird Count office)
>To: admedia at po.infosphere.or.jp
>Date: 97-01-31 04:40:48 EST
>
>Dear Sir or Madam,
>
>We are pleased to announce here the remarkable results of the
>second "NTT World Bird Count".
>
>Number of bird species reported: 5317 (!)
>Number of participants: 80694
>Number of countries and regions where birding were conducted: 81
> (Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda,
> Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Columbia,
> Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech, Denmark, Dominican Rep., Ecuador, Egypt,
> El Salvador, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands, Finland, France, Germany,
> Ghana, Greece, Guyana, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia,
> Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Latvia, Lebanon, Luxembourg,
> Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands, Nicaragua,
> Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines,
> Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Saipan, Seychelles,
> Singapore, Slovak, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden,
> Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine,
> United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela,
> Zambia, Zimbabwe)
>
>We are very grateful to all of you whose hard efforts and good will
>could bring in these excellent results.
>
>Based on the number of species reported, NTT handed the
>donation of 5,317,000 Yen to Mr. Richard Grimmett, Senior
>Programme Officer in Asian Division of BirdLife International on
>January 28 at the NTT Head office. The donation will be used to
>help Nature conservation activities of BirdLife International.
>
>More details of the event results, such as compiled list of all the
>species reported, ranking data, comments of participants, etc are
>provided in our renewed page
>$B!J(Jhttp://www.wnn.or.jp/wnn-n/w-bird/).
>We hope you will enjoy seeing what you have contributed to this
>event. Please contact us if you have any enquiry or, If you
>have no access to www and want the compiled list or other data.
>
>With best wishes,
>
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>"NTT World Bird Count Office"
>wbc at wnn.or.jp
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