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I was submitting my recent sighting to eBird today and noticed that Minnesota was nowhere on the list of top states for submissions. Wisconsin and Michigan are beating us!! Top States - Checklists Submitted in May 2006 New York - 2594 California - 2093 Texas - 1946 Florida - 1546 Wisconsin 1546 Vermont - 1337 Pennsylvania - 1088 New Jersey - 1009 Ohio - 946 Massachusetts - 914 Derek Bakken - 26 (If everyone was as crazy as me, we would only need 100 people to beat New York!!) This is one of the best birding states in the country. We know it and now we should let others know it. I challenge everyone to log on, start a FREE account and submit their sightings. * It will track your sightings by state, county, country * You can keep a record of the earliest that you have ever seen a bird * You can keep records of what birds you have seen ay your favorite hotspots * You can check out hotspots to see what birds have been reported there recently or in the past * Much more Oh yeah. It also helps the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Audubon track birds and use the information for science and conservation. http://www.ebird.org/content/index.html <http://www.ebird.com> P.S. - I hope everyone is at least using our own MOU's reporting feature? http://moumn.org/moureports/season.html <http://moumn.org/> Thanks for listening to my rant, Derek Bakken St. Paul, MN ------=_Part_2968_21462532.1149981111250 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline <div>I was submitting my recent sighting to eBird today and noticed that Minnesota was nowhere on the list of top states for submissions. Wisconsin and Michigan are beating us!!</div> <div> </div> <div>Top States - Checklists Submitted in May 2006</div> <div> </div> <div>New York - 2594</div> <div>California - 2093</div> <div>Texas - 1946</div> <div>Florida - 1546</div> <div>Wisconsin 1546</div> <div>Vermont - 1337</div> <div>Pennsylvania - 1088</div> <div>New Jersey - 1009</div> <div>Ohio - 946</div> <div>Massachusetts - 914</div> <div>Derek Bakken - 26 (If everyone was as crazy as me, we would only need 100 people to beat New York!!)</div> <div> </div> <div>This is one of the best birding states in the country. We know it and now we should let others know it.</div> <div> </div> <div>I challenge everyone to log on, start a FREE account and submit their sightings. </div> <div> </div> <div>* It will track your sightings by state, county, country</div> <div>* You can keep a record of the earliest that you have ever seen a bird</div> <div>* You can keep records of what birds you have seen ay your favorite hotspots</div> <div>* You can check out hotspots to see what birds have been reported there recently or in the past</div> <div>* Much more</div> <div> </div> <div>Oh yeah. It also helps the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Audubon track birds and use the information for science and conservation.</div> <div> </div> <div><a href="http://www.ebird.org/content/index.html";>http://www.ebird.org/content/index.html</a><a href="http://www.ebird.com";></a></div> <div> </div> <div>P.S. - I hope everyone is at least using our own MOU's reporting feature?</div> <div> </div> <div><a href="http://moumn.org/moureports/season.html";>http://moumn.org/moureports/season.html</a><a href="http://moumn.org/";></a></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>Thanks for listening to my rant,</div> <div> </div> <div>Derek Bakken</div> <div>St. Paul, MN</div> <div> </div> ------=_Part_2968_21462532.1149981111250--
