If you saw the 12/23 segment of Sven Sundgaard's Simply Science feature on KARE11, you heard me say that the St. Paul CBC recorded its first Northern Cardinal in 1959. That's not true. Cardinals were recorded in 1944, the first year of the St. Paul (North) CBC, and most years since then, albeit in small numbers in the early years.
If you're wondering how I could have made such a gaffe, here's the story. Using a feature of the National Audubon Society's CBC web pages, I obtained a table of all of the results of the St. Paul (North) CBC. The table is in the form of some files that you read with your web browser. I used the browser's "find" function to find "cardinal", and saw that the first entry for "Northern Cardinal" was in the year 1959. I should have done the "find" again or scrolled down to the next species, which was "Cardinal", and which was reported in 13 of the years from 1944 through 1958. I was well aware that species names have changed, and that the NAS CBC reports show the historic names. I just didn't think of that this time. I felt that I should correct this error that's out there in the public domain. Julian ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
