I'm mostly interested in number of individuals divided by total party hours
for the count.
Joe
On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 2:15 PM, Diana Beatty wrote:
> While I do think participation count and participation man hours matter,
> it only goes so far. For example, having 2 people in an area report 1
Hi again,
After beginning some attempts at correcting for effort (thanks for pointing
that out, Joe Roller!), I'm still playing with different ways to quantify
things. I can share two possible points of interest:
--Diana's suggestion that the 2016 count may have been low due to poor
weather and t
While I do think participation count and participation man hours matter, it
only goes so far. For example, having 2 people in an area report 10 birds
does not mean that 4 people should have found 20 birds - either group might
do equally well at finding the same birds present. The ability of the
pa
2016's low count is likely a product of the weather that day - we had a
blizzard with temps around 0 degrees Fahrenheit - some areas of the circle
may not have had the usual level of participation due to that weather, as
well. In reading all these posts a few questions that occurred to me were
1.
Hi all,
First off, hi! I'm brand new to this list. As dumb luck would have it, the
first post I ever received was yesterday from Diana Beatty. She had the
wonderful idea to do a linear regression on Christmas Bird Count (CBC) data
from Colorado Springs to see if there has been a decline in Ho
