Paul Chapman
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They don't need Semipalmated Sandpiper.
All the best
All the best
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2017 Western Palearctic Big Year (4 Viewers)
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owl flight
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Yeah, i thought that, but when i looked for it on their list i couldn't see it, hey ho...
Paul Chapman
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Maffong
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Apparently they're ready to twitch any Dusky, Radde's, Pechora or whatever if only the birds stayed a little longer and were safer bets, than they currently are.
BTW With the Rose-breasted Grosbeak from the Scillies today there are only 6 code 4 species left on my sheet that need to turn up this year, all of my other codes 4 have shown up through the year. These are Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Grey-cheeked and Swainson's Thrush, Blackpoll Warbler, Bobolink and Scarlet Tanager. So far this year 820 species have been recorded of the 1025 species that are currently on my WP list.
Code 1 286/286
Code 2 162/162
Code 3 253/260 (Missing: African Darter, Verreaux's Eagle, Siberian Crane, African Skimmer, Hume's Wheatear, Pygmy Sunbird, African Silverbill)
Code 4 71/77
Code 5 33/58
Code 6 15/171
Code 7 (extinct) 0/11
BTW With the Rose-breasted Grosbeak from the Scillies today there are only 6 code 4 species left on my sheet that need to turn up this year, all of my other codes 4 have shown up through the year. These are Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Grey-cheeked and Swainson's Thrush, Blackpoll Warbler, Bobolink and Scarlet Tanager. So far this year 820 species have been recorded of the 1025 species that are currently on my WP list.
Code 1 286/286
Code 2 162/162
Code 3 253/260 (Missing: African Darter, Verreaux's Eagle, Siberian Crane, African Skimmer, Hume's Wheatear, Pygmy Sunbird, African Silverbill)
Code 4 71/77
Code 5 33/58
Code 6 15/171
Code 7 (extinct) 0/11
Paul Chapman
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Maffong
And if you are able easily (don't worry if not), how does their current total break down between your codes?
Many thanks
Maffong
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Couldn't be easier, it's all being calculated by my excel sheet already
Of the birds that have been recorded this year their current total breaks down as follows
Code 1 286/286
Code 2 160/162 (Brown Booby and Houbara Bustard)
Code 3 218/260 (mainly island endemics/specialists (24) and some unaccessible species)
Code 4 38/71
Code 5 9/33
Code 6 2/15
If you want to have a look yourself or play around a bit here's the spreadsheet. Don't overlook that several columns are hidden
Farnboro John
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That's the $64K question, and if they think they can answer it rather than just going for whatever turns up, they are better men than I am!
John
Paul Chapman
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Couldn't be easier, it's all being calculated by my excel sheet already
Of the birds that have been recorded this year their current total breaks down as follows
Code 1 286/286
Code 2 160/162 (Brown Booby and Houbara Bustard)
Code 3 218/260 (mainly island endemics/specialists (24) and some unaccessible species)
Code 4 38/71
Code 5 9/33
Code 6 2/15
If you want to have a look yourself or play around a bit here's the spreadsheet. Don't overlook that several columns are hidden
Thank you. As a lover of a spreadsheet myself, that is a thing of beauty. :t:
lewis20126
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Paul
did you do your own codes at some stage? I can't recall if you finished that. A comparison would be interesting.
cheers, a
Maffong
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Look at my spreadsheet and un-hide column E and you'll get Paul's code and compare directly.
And don't overlook the second page of the sheet, as it has all the explanations and the maths
Paul Chapman
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Alan
Yes. The principal differences were that:-
(i) I separated out what I believed were the usual but inaccessible species into a Code 4;
(ii) my attempts at Codes were based on 'gettability'; and
(iii) Maffong's approach is a strict geographical one on the usual species and a strict records-based one on rarities.
Mine currently:-
Code 1 - 324/324 so 100%
Code 2 - 212/232 so 91% (of which I would probably reclassify some easy range-restricted missing species such as Tenerife Blue Chaffinch, Fuerteventura Chat, etc)
Code 3 - 121/141 so 86%
Code 4 - 1/7 so 14% (of which I classed Blue-naped Mousebird as inaccessible)
Code 5 - 36/48 so 75%
Code 6 - 11/66 so 17%
Code 7 - 8/199 so 4%
Code 8 - 0/7
I would undoubtedly revise my approach mainly by removing Code 4, reclassifying some Code 2s/3s & revising a couple of Category C species to Extinct.
All the best
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lewis20126
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Paul
Thanks - I can't remember the code 8 definition but assume extinct [in region (?)], eg Arabian Bustard, SBC, Great Auk and so on? I'll re-read the thread at some stage.
cheers, alan
Thanks - I can't remember the code 8 definition but assume extinct [in region (?)], eg Arabian Bustard, SBC, Great Auk and so on? I'll re-read the thread at some stage.
cheers, alan
Paul Chapman
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Yep - my seven at the outset were:-
Common Ostrich
Nubian Bustard
Arabian Bustard
Canarian Oystercatcher
Eskimo Curlew
Slender-billed Curlew
Great Auk
Add to those three (maybe four) Category C species after clarification during the year.
All the best
Couldn't be easier, it's all being calculated by my excel sheet already
Of the birds that have been recorded this year their current total breaks down as follows
Code 1 286/286
Code 2 160/162 (Brown Booby and Houbara Bustard)
Code 3 218/260 (mainly island endemics/specialists (24) and some unaccessible species)
Code 4 38/71
Code 5 9/33
Code 6 2/15
If you want to have a look yourself or play around a bit here's the spreadsheet. Don't overlook that several columns are hidden
Agreed. That is a fantastic piece of work!
PedroNicolau
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Black-throated Blue Warbler on Corvo...
Where are they?
Where are they?
Paul Chapman
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No idea but I bet they'll start crying when they see a picture....
https://twitter.com/macstronach/status/914548779424108550
I did. Time for one further north the full way across!
All the best
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PedroNicolau
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Jon Turner
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Pity they can't drop in on Scilly: Cliff Swallow on Tresco.
Paul Chapman
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I thought that the breast looking quite whitish and sparse but presumably the yellowish wash to the supercilium which narrows is conclusive for 'just' a Northern Waterthrush.....
https://twitter.com/macstronach/status/914824606950752256
I think that they are on the move tomorrow to the Azores?
All the best
