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Peter Sullins
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-----Original Message-----
From: CALBIRDS at yahoogroups.com [mailto:CALBIRDS at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Brian Sullivan
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 10:40 AM
To: CALBIRDS
Subject: [CALBIRDS] California Horned Puffin Count

CalBirders

The Horned Puffin phenomenon this summer in California is nothing short of
amazing. I think we should strive to document this event as fully as
possible. With that in mind I'm interested in trying to mobilize the
California Birding Army to try and count as many Horned Puffins as possible
along our coast this Saturday, June 9th. The protocol will be simple: go
to your local beaches and do 15-minute seawatches, covering as many beaches
as possible over the course of the day. You can then use eBird
(www.ebird.org) to enter your data online. If individual beaches are
covered multiple times during the day, we will take the single high count
of puffins at each location. We can then query the data electronically in
eBird for the high count of Horned Puffins at each unique location in
California on 9 June.
This should give us a clear snapshot of just how many Horned Puffins are
over-summering this year. In Monterey Bay we must have dozens! I'm
interested to see how far south (and north) they extend, and how many
individuals are involved. I'll post the results here, and they'll
certainly be published in North American Birds.

If you are interested in participating in this impromptu survey please
contact me at this email address and I'll put you on the list, and then
provide further instructions. Please redirect this message to your local
listserves or friends if you feel that others might be interested.

Thanks
--
Brian L. Sullivan
eBird Project Leader
<www.ebird.org>
Photographic Editor,
Birds of North America Online
<http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/BNA/>
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker Woods Rd.
Ithaca, NY 14850

Photographic Editor,
North American Birds
American Birding Association
<www.americanbirding.org>

bls42 at cornell.edu
609-694-3280
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