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Discussion => General Discussions => Topic started by: beresford on October 29, 2012, 08:48:15 PM

Title: Canadian big year?
Post by: beresford on October 29, 2012, 08:48:15 PM

I got to thinking the other day... of course it was spurred by the Big Year movie. Is there a Canadian record for species seen in a year.? I know the Ontario record, for the time being :), stands at 338. I figured there must be a Canadian record somewhere, but I couldn't find it... at least after a cursory search.

Thanks in advance
Tim

Title: Re: Canadian big year?
Post by: lovemypt on October 30, 2012, 05:10:45 PM

Look up.     furandfeather500    on goggle, this team is doing both birds and animals and are up to 428 for birds so far, some interesting blogs and pics

Title: Re: Canadian big year?
Post by: Napper on November 01, 2012, 08:04:42 PM

Then you should have gone  or you should be in Fort Erie

I thought this might happen

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/arti ... d-watchers (http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1281343--hurricane-sandy-proves-a-dream-for-bird-watchers)


Napper :D
Twitchers

Title: Re: Canadian big year?
Post by: Pat Hodgson on November 06, 2012, 04:06:38 PM

The top annual total for Canada that has been reported to the ABA is 345, which appears to have been done entirely in BC since that is also the annual high for BC.  The top annual Ontario list is 288.  Others not reported to ABA may be higher, such as the 338 you refer to.

Title: Re: Canadian big year?
Post by: thouc on November 06, 2012, 05:24:41 PM

The current top number of species in eBird for Canada 2012 is 384.

And for Ontario it is 342.

Title: Re: Canadian big year?
Post by: GStuart on November 08, 2012, 09:15:14 AM

Be careful with eBird numbers.  If someone sees a Budgie or an Orange Bishop in Canada, they are properly identified, but by ABA "Big Year" rules are not countable birds.

Title: Re: Canadian big year?
Post by: thouc on November 08, 2012, 02:47:33 PM

Josh Vandermeulen's 342 for Ontario is correct and a new Ontario record per his own website (http://joshvandermeulen.blogspot.ca/).

Title: Re: Canadian big year?
Post by: Craig McL on November 23, 2012, 10:26:43 AM

look at this sight is all the Canada records   http://www.neilyworld.com/neilyworld/li ... corner.htm (http://www.neilyworld.com/neilyworld/listerscorner/listers-corner.htm)

my big Canada year was 1995 i saw 319 speshes witch is 48% of the population . Jerry Pilny of Calgary had 409 61% in 2007

Craig

Title: Re: Canadian big year?
Post by: thouc on November 23, 2012, 08:02:13 PM

There seems to be a different set of birders reporting to that site compared to e-Bird. I could only find one name on both sites for the Ontario life list.

Title: Re: Canadian big year?
Post by: Craig McL on December 11, 2012, 02:36:52 PM

i have never heard of e-Bird.??? and i only post to http://www.neilyworld.com/neilyworld/li ... corner.htm (http://www.neilyworld.com/neilyworld/listerscorner/listers-corner.htm)  all though I do have to update , i guess that's what the  hooldays are for ....

Title: Re: Canadian big year?
Post by: thouc on December 11, 2012, 05:47:29 PM

Here's the link to eBird (http://ebird.org/content/canada) and the Ontario top list for this year (http://ebird.org/ebird/canada/top100?locInfo.regionCode=CA-ON&year=2012&locInfo.regionType=subnational1).