JWN Andrewes
Poor Judge of Pasta.
39 from 46 possible is very impressive, who can beat that?
That's 39 Corvidae, not 39 Corvus, that was my interpretation of the question, sorry for any confusion!
39 from 46 possible is very impressive, who can beat that?
Looks like there are 17 corvidae on the WP list, which have seen, but have only seen about 5 or 6 in the US (out of 21 IOC), and I'm going to be hazy about which I might have seen, I guess I could check ranges and see if I ticked any in the back of the old Nat Geo guide.
So no idea!
This reminds me of the weird experience when we (after a lot of searching) found a flock of Siberian Jays in Ovre Pasvik and that meant we are done with corvids in Collins. It was probably not the first family we "closed" and neither have we seen all corvids in the WP (Pied Crow at least is missing), but it was a significant moment anyway.
I see another thread coming on ... I remember going through the old Collins (Heinzel, Fitter and Parslow) in the distant past and seeing how many double pages I'd completed (wasn't that many - there was always some random and seemingly unneccesary or unattainable rarity on a page)!
I see another thread coming on ... I remember going through the old Collins (Heinzel, Fitter and Parslow) in the distant past and seeing how many double pages I'd completed (wasn't that many - there was always some random and seemingly unneccesary or unattainable rarity on a page)!
We were considering just cutting pages that are done from both sited from Collins, but then we realized we don't even haul it around that much anymore... and that it will probably happen in not too distant future without our explicit activity, as the book is not in a very good shape But yeah, there is something special to ticking the last bird on a page!
... I guess I could check ranges and see if I ticked any in the back of the old Nat Geo guide.
... American Crow
North-western Crow...
A friend joked that he was doing that with the Skinner Guide to Macro Moths - quite challenging to get a full plate - and the person he was talking to took him seriously and got really quite upset!
Aww. All those variations ... to get every one would be some challenge indeed
Would find that difficult myself. Left my Skinner in the old Citreon AX when it failed the MoT. Left the Citreon in a field. When I came back to it a year or two later it had got so damp (sunroofs - pah!) that it was more of a field guide to mycelia. Unfortunately.
Citroen
I'm on 74 Corvidae, including 27 Corvus (-1 when Northwestern crow gets the chop)
I think my #19 Corvus would have been either Brown-necked or Fan-tailed Raven, but I don't think there is an easy way to work it out in Scythebill. Favourite has to have been New Caledonia Crow carrying around it's little stick!