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Re: Carolina Big Year records?



C-Birders,

I think that the Big Year record for South Carolina is 322 species, set by
Caroline Eastman in 1995. I was doing a Big Year along with my dear wife
Caroline, but she got a couple ahead of me, and I never was able to catch
up, so had to settle for only 320 for the year. It was a fabulous year,
filled with rarities, and we chased just about all of  them.

Robin Carter
Columbia, SC
rcarter@sc.rr.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua S. Rose" <jsr6@duke.edu>
To: <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 1:35 PM
Subject: Carolina Big Year records?


> Hi Carolinabirders,
>
> It's that time of year again: time for American Birding Association
> members to send their big day and list reports in! I keep forgetting, so
> thought I should say something in case anyone else was doing that too.
> Forms, pdfs of last year's report, all kinds of other details at
> http://www.americanbirding.org/publications/miscbdlrep.htm
> I'm hoping that the 81-species Triangle-only big day Norm Budnitz and I
> did in December 2000 will finally get into the records this year, and
> erase that embarrassing 56 that Dan Lebbin and I committed a couple of
> years before that... (Dan had to quit for class at noon)
>
> Also, Ritch Lilly and I were privately discussing big years. As far as I
> know, there is no official record - ABA or otherwise - of this kind of
> information. The ABA Big Day and List Report does print annual lists for
> each state every year, but does not keep year-to-year records of the
> all-time best totals, as far as I can tell. And we were wondering, what
> are the top Big Years for North and South Carolina?
>
> Anyone who knows for a fact what the best ever is may as well just post to
> the whole list, as it seems like a point of general interest: how many
> bird species can you see in either Carolina in a calendar year? Anyone who
> isn't sure, but who thinks they have a contender (in either state), can
> send their numbers to me privately, and I can post names and numbers to
> Carolinabirds in a single list a few days from now. And anyone who has
> several back issues of the ABA Big Day and List Report easily accessible
> that could compile the numbers from that, or just send me the top few
> counts for each state, that might be interesting too...
>
> Good birding,
>
> Josh
>
>
> Joshua S. Rose
> Duke University
> Department of Biology (Zoology, R.I.P.)
>
> jsr6@duke.edu
> http://www.duke.edu/~jsr6/