Subject: [inland-NW-birders] RE: [Tweeters] Updated cumulative county
Date: Jul 12 14:46:04 2012
From: Keith Carlson - kec201814 at cableone.net


While is entirely possible that E Bird may be able to do this in the future, at present it does not.
At least in our little corner of the world ( Asotin County)
I take sightings for Asotin county off of E Bird at least twice a week. In most cases, I accept or inquire for more information on unusual sightings.
At present there is only one accepted E Bird sighting that I did not accept for the Asotin County list- this after discussion with the observer.

At this time, 12 July, the Asotin county list I havecomplied from all sources is 204 species compared with 186 on E Bird.

I encounter quite a few birders from around the state that do not currently post to E Bird, for a variety of reasons.

Keith E. Carlson
Lewison
----- Original Message -----
From: Wayne Weber
To: TWEETERS ; INLAND NW BIRDERS ; MATT BARTELS
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 2:24 PM
Subject: [inland-NW-birders] RE: [Tweeters] Updated cumulative county yearlist file available online


Matt et al.,



We appreciate the effort expended by all in compiling county year lists. However, if the number of birders using eBird continues to increase, you may not need to do it in a couple more years-- eBird will do it all for you. The only exceptions may be a few sparsely-populated counties which have few eBird contributors.



The current total of species reported this year for Washington is 370 as reported by you, and 366 as reported by eBird. It seems that there are few if any rarities these days that are not reported to eBird. I haven't looked to see what the discrepancies are between the two lists, but the eBird year list for the state can be seen at



http://ebird.org/ebird/sightings?listType=first&locInfo.regionType=subnational1&locInfo.regionCode=US-WA&beginYear=2012&endYear=2012&continuous=false&sortBy=taxon_order





The point of this message, of course, is to encourage even more birders to submit their bird sightings to eBird, which will make your sightings readily available to others, as well as facilitate the compilation of things like state and county year lists.



Good birding to all!



Wayne C. Weber

Delta, BC

contopus at telus.net









From: tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Matt Bartels
Sent: July-12-12 1:14 PM
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu; Inland NW
Subject: [Tweeters] Updated cumulative county year list file available online



Hi Tweeters & Inland-NW-Birders -



An updated version of the 2012 county year list project is up at Washington Birder. We've received updates from almost all the counties with details through the end of June. For those not received, I substituted the e-bird year list to help fill things out. County compilers, especially for the underbirded counties, would appreciate receiving reports of any birds seen in their counties.



Not surprisingly, given all the rare birds that have popped up this spring, we are doing better than last year at this stage:

Last year at the mid-way point, we had tallied tallied 326 species in Western WA, 291 in Eastern WA, and 365 statewide. This year, we've reported 331 species in Western WA, 299 in Eastern WA, and 370 in all of Washington.



12 Western WA counties have higher totals that at this time last year, and 14 Eastern WA counties are doing better than last year.



Black-throated Sparrows have been popping up all over, showing up on 13 county lists so far [with 6 of those in Western WA!]



All counties have tallied over 150 species so far, and more than 20 are over 200 for the year -- I think that's mostly a sign of better coverage and reporting these days, but a great sign of what is possible to see out there in every corner of the state. And in a sign of what a difference an individual's big year effort can make, Kittitas County has recorded 100 more species this year so far than it had by the mid-way point last year -- Scott's Kittitas Big Year effort is paying off for us all!



If you'd like to take a look at where things stand, the list and many other interesting files are at the Washington Birder website:



http://www.wabirder.com/





A direct link to the 2012 county year list & the list of county compilers, including a growing number of direct links to individual county year lists with more details and more frequent updates:



http://wabirder.com/bartel.html





Thanks to all the compilers and all those pitching in to sketch a picture of another year's birds in WA.





Matt Bartels

Seattle, WA



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