Hello Some birders maybe be aware that Minnesota Audubon and Minnesota Bird Conservation are steering the Minnesota Breeding Bird Atlas project. Last week Bonnie Sample announced the website for the atlas and today I finally got around to search the website. While searching the website this afternoon I noticed that the two most important aspects of the website is still under development. Those two areas are the registration section and for birders to claim a survey block. We are already into April and so far no one has the ability to register for the atlas project or claim a survey block. I was one of the lucky guys and was able to claim my two blocks in Sax-Zim Bog before this link was open to the public.
I hope very soon these two areas will be finished so birders who are waiting to register and can do so and also claim a survey block. I know others inside the atlas project inner loop have gotten their blocks like myself before the link to claim a survey block is finally finished and open to the public. Also the link to report birds to the project is still under development as well. I also see that there are 54 counties without regional coordinators out of 87 counties in Minnesota. I know this is the first year out of 5 years for the project but so far in the atlas first year, the project missed out on southern owls and northern owls courting and nesting period. I hope the atlas find more coordinators and also finish the links on the website so birders who are waiting to work on the project can register and claim some blocks before May 1. Mike Hendrickson Duluth, Minnesota Website: http://webpages.charter.net/mmhendrickson/ Blog: http://colderbythelakebirding.blogspot.com/ ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
