Check the MOU database and maps for Dickcissel sightings.
http://moumn.org/cgi-bin/mapi.pl?species=Dickcissel (select Summer 2012)
14 counties have no reports, indicating that 73 counties have reports of
Dickcissels. The counties that Jesse Ellis indicated did not have Dickcissel
reports are as follows. The counties in blue do not have current reports for
2012.
anoka
becker - 6 sightings
beltrami - 4 sightings
benton - 2 sightings
brown
carlton
cass - 1 sighting
chippewa - 2 sightings
clearwater - 4 sightings
cook
crow wing - 1 sighting
grant
isanti - 1 sighting
itasca - 8 sightings
kanabec - 1 sighting
kandiyohi - 3 sightings
kittson
koochiching - 2 sightings
lake
Lake of the woods
le sueur - 1 sighting
lincoln - 3 sightings
mahnomen - 2 sightings
marshall
meeker - 4 sightings
mille lacs - 3 sightings
morrison
nobles - 9 sightings
norman - 3 sightings
otter tail - 1 sighting
pennington
pope - 1 sighting
red lake
renville - 2 sightings
roseau
stevens
swift - 2 sightings
traverse
waseca - 1 sighting
watonwan - 3 sightings
wilkin - 1 sighting
yellow medicine - 3 sightings
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David Cahlander [email protected] Burnsville, MN 952-894-5910
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jesse Ellis" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 10:33 AM
Subject: [mou-net] eBird Dickcissel challenge
> Hey Minnesota-
>
>
> Our neighbor across the river (where I currently live, unfortunately) has
> instituted a bit of a community birding challenge that I have found
> interesting. Wisconsin, too, is suffering from a massive Dickcissel
> infestation, and the challenge has been laid down - find Dickcissel in
> every county. They're doing very well, too (see the forward from the wisb
> list at the very bottom), even getting Dickcissel in the relatively
> forested northwest and northeast counties. After getting my first Douglas
> Co., MN dickcissels last weekend, I thought I would see how well Minnesota
> was doing. The answer? Despite all those reports on the listserve, not very
> well, according to eBird. Below are the counties for which there are no
> eBird records of Dickcissel this year. A fair fraction of those counties
> have none or only one eBird list submitted for the whole year! I know we
> have more counties than Wisconsin, but we're closer to the core dickcissel
> range and we have better habitat! We should be able to best them in number
> of counties (87 vs 72 - can we beat 72?), even if we can't find Dickcissel
> in Cook or Lake counties. We're at 44 right now.> --
> Jesse Ellis
> Post-doctoral Researcher
> Dept. of Zoology
> University of Wisconsin - Madison
> Madison, Dane Co, WI
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