Daily Birding: "Dickcissel" is a funny word

They are a cute bird though. These two are from Adrian's field sites. I went with him to see his fields sites and help out with some fire ant sampling.

Listing is fun!!

Some people look down on listing, but I love it. It's important to acknowledge that listing is more or less a game, even if it is a great way to keep track of birds you've seen, to contribute to our collective knowledge of bird distributions and occurrence patterns, and to inspire personal adventures. The key is to remember to learn the birds, and not think of them solely as a check mark on a list. I feel that I've been able to balance listing with a broader appreciation for nature and birds as a whole. I've studied and even written scientific papers on a handful of bird species and don't feel like listing has been detrimental to my performance as a natural resource scientist. If anything it keeps me outside looking for birds and honing my ID skills. I'm trying to learn my butterflies too. I know many of the large charismatic species, but still need a lot of work with some of the more subtle groups like the skippers, hairstreaks and duskywings.

Current List totals

World Total: 836

North America total 753

ABA total 580

eBird ABA total: 576

Texas: 344

California : 329

Mississippi: 250

ABA area ticks: 2,172

US State lists: 21

Some Selected County Lists

Humboldt County CA: 260

Oktibbeha County, MS: 184

Uvalde County, TX: 150

Noxubee County, MS: 159

Real County, TX: 125

County ticks: ~5,500 (need to add it up again)

County lists: 165

mode county list: 1

median county list: 21

mean 33.57

range 1-260

Some Goals

1,000 World/ 164 to go

800 North America/ 47 to go

600 ABA area birds/ 20 to go

400 Texas species/ 56 to go

400 California Species/ 71 to go

300 Mississippi Species/ 50 to go

150 Tennessee Species/ 24 to go

200 Alabama species/ 94 to go (I just started birding in Alabama in February)

3,000 ABA area ticks/ 828 to go

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Saturday, April 30, 2011

"Dickcissel" is a funny word

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