From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Fri Jan 21 18:05:02 2005 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j0M23EGp020265 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:03:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailgate02.slac.stanford.edu (mailgate02.slac.stanford.edu [134.79.18.92]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j0M21fAf019751 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:01:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from flora03.slac.stanford.edu (flora03.slac.stanford.edu [134.79.16.55]) by mailgate02.slac.stanford.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j0M21eew006171 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:01:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from [[email protected]]) Received: from localhost (eisner@localhost) by flora03.slac.stanford.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.5/Submit-solaris) with ESMTP id j0M21dP3005752 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:01:40 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: flora03.slac.stanford.edu: eisner owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:01:39 -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 Subject: [SBB] Second annual Palo Alto CBC mini-quiz X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5b1 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]] After the 2003 Palo Alto CBC I asked a couple of "quiz" questions about which species were most numerous and widely-distributed on the count. For example, in 2003, all but one daytime party found Golden-crowned Sparrow, making that species most widespread. I figured it might be fun to ask the same questions for the 2004 count. Unfortunately, the "most widespread" answer is the same, which sort of spoils the fun: Golden-crowned Sparrow was found by 35 of 37 parties. [For this purpose only, I've merged split parties and owling parties in with main daytime parties.] Also, the largest entry on the list of observations is "peep, sp" (unidentified peeps), with 12340 individuals counted. So here are a couple of slightly modified questions: (1) Four species were found by 32 or more of the 37 parties. What were the other three, and which one came in second behind Golden-crowned Sparrow? [Note that we had 7 bayside parties, 6 in the valley, 10 in the foothills, and 14 in the mountains.] (2) The next two highest totals after "peep, sp" are actual species. What were they? As before, if you want to "play", please send me responses by private EMail (unless you are bold enough to want to post). If I get any, I'll summarize them and give the answers around the middle of next week. Here's a bit of "free" information: it says something about the strength of the Pine Siskin invasion that that species actually came in third among total counts of passerines this year. (No, it wasn't wide- spread enough to be one of the answers to question 1.) I'll post more of a count summary next week. 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]]