From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Thu Jan 29 16:19:31 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0U0Ft2l016746 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:15:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from nospam2.slac.stanford.edu (nospam2.slac.stanford.edu [134.79.18.86]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0U0F0CR016707 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:15:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpserv2.slac.stanford.edu (smtpserv2.slac.stanford.edu [134.79.19.101]) by nospam2.slac.stanford.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0U0Ex6j004996 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:14:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from [[email protected]]) Received: from flora01.slac.stanford.edu ([134.79.16.29]) by smtpserv2.slac.stanford.edu (PMDF V6.1-1 #37665) with ESMTP id <[[email protected]]> for [[email protected]]; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:14:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (eisner@localhost) by flora01.slac.stanford.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.5/Submit-solaris) with ESMTP id i0U0ExFW006332 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:14:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:14:59 -0800 (PST) From: Al Eisner <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Message-id: <[[email protected]]> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Authentication-warning: flora01.slac.stanford.edu: eisner owned process doing -bs Subject: [SBB] Re: Palo Alto CBC quiz X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2+ Precedence: list List-Id: South Bay Birding List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Errors-To: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] On Jan. 25 I posted the following quiz related to Palo Alto CBC results: 1) I mentioned over 17000 "Scaup, sp." above. Guess what species had the largest number of individuals identified as to species on this count. 2) What was the most widespread species on the count? This was one species which was recorded by all but one of the daytime parties. Keep in mind that the count extends from the Bay to the Santa Cruz mountains (i.e., neither Northern Shoveler nor Hairy Woodpecker is a likely candidate). I later added: "I should have stated that very few Scaup were identified as to species. So, despite that very large number of "Scaup, sp.", don't guess either Scaup species for question 1!" Only 10 brave folks actually replied but I promised a summary, so here goes. There was just one correct answer to one of the questions. A few people answered only one question, and a few gave multiple wrong answers, but I'll mention them all. The less-than-correct answers received for (1) were: Northern Shoveler(3 people), Lesser Scaup (despite my follow-up), Ruddy Duck, American Coot, American Robin(2) These are respectable choices, most in the top 6 -- Ruddy Duck was in fact #2, while American Robin was most abundant passerine. But only Ann Verdi got Western Sandpiper, tops at 11162 identified individuals. (I'm slightly surprised that the party which had the majority of these didn't make that guess.) So, if there were an actual prize for this quiz (sorry - there isn't), Ann would get it. The suggested answers for (2) were: Red-tailed Hawk, Mourning Dove, Black Phoebe, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Common Bushtit, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, European Starling(2), California Towhee, Song Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, These are all widespread birds in the circle, seen by more than half of the 40 daytime parties. Black Phoebe, with 37, was in fact second (an honorable mention to Pat Kenny). California Towhee and Dark-eyed Junco are in the right ballpark, but were missed by most bayside parties. The most widespread species was actually Golden-crowned Sparrow, seen by 39 parties, and missed only by the Stevens Creek party in Montebello. Al Eisner _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. south-bay-birds mailing list ([[email protected]]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://www.plaidworks.com/mailman/options/south-bay-birds/south-bay-birds-archive%40plaidworks.com This email sent to [[email protected]]