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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