Randy, >From a scientific point of view your idea is relatively sound for some species but not others. So, for questions dealing with summer status (King Rail, Northern Bobwhite) then this approach, if it were coupled with some sort of atlas block-busting effort, might yield desired results.
For other species that may be more irregular (winter/migrants) then it would likely require more than two years. For others, like Gyrfalcon, it might work or it might not depending on the actual status in winter. Then again, it might tell you something about the actual status of the species in winter.... Jeff Price --- [email protected] wrote: > Birding Friends- > > One of the primary reasons we have such great > dissent regarding rare bird > designations is that we are lacking in hard science. > So what if the MOU > designated one species a year or so as a target bird > by the entire > organization? (Perhaps one year is not sufficient > data but that could > easily be modified). > One of our two publications could provide us ===== Jeff Price Boulder, CO [email protected] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools
