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Re: Our NC Big Year - Thanks to Everyone!



Congrats on a super year!

gary

Gary Phillips
Conway, SC
 Zone 8
walela@sccoast.net
"Never has the earth been so lovely nor the sun so bright, as today..."
(Nikinapi)
-----Original Message-----
From: Fitzbew@aol.com <Fitzbew@aol.com>
To: carolinabirds@duke.edu <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
Date: Thursday, January 03, 2002 1:53 PM
Subject: Our NC Big Year - Thanks to Everyone!


>My wife, Patricia, and I did a NC Big Year in 2001.  For anyone who does
not
>know, a Big Year is the attempt to tally as many species as possible within
a
>certain geographical area in a calendar year.
>
>A Wilson's Warbler (initially discovered on the Wilmington Christmas Count)
>seen at Airlie Gardens on 12/31 was our 344th and final species of the year
>seen or heard in NC.
>
>To the best of our knowledge, this sets a new NC record, breaking an
earlier
>record of 339 (adjusted for the sharp-tailed sparrow split) set in 1993.
>
>This was really made possible due to the legion of Carolinabirds posters
who
>shared their 2001 sightings and enabled us to relocate birds that they had
>found!   A good portion of our species would simply not have been recorded
if
>not for Carolinabirds!  The widespread use of cell phones certainly helped
>too!
>
>We are working on a web site in which we will show some Big Year statistics
>(mileage, etc..) and list the species recorded.    I'll post to
Carolinabirds
>when it is up and running.
>
>Thanks to all of you who shared your sightings with us in 2001!
>
>Russ Tyndall
>Wake Forest, NC
>fitzbew@aol.com
>