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Message: <blockquote data-quote="njlarsen" data-source="post: 1578185" data-attributes="member: 7427">One thing that US does which activates a lot of otherwise not very active birders is the Christmas bird count. I think that activity as a catch activity is very important, because a lot of those involved would never think about environment if they did not participate in these activities; in other words, US would be completely left to the Oil companies (think the environmental policy of the Bush administration) without a way to activate a larger group of people into birdwatching. Maybe a little closer to what this thread started from :-O , take a look at <a href="http://ebird.org/content/ebird" target="_blank">Ebird</a>. On the opening page is a count of how many checklists have been submitted in this month per state. Given that I write this September 5, so 5 days worth of observations, I think it is impressive that the average number of checklists per state is somewhere along 200-300 at this time. To me, anyone actually submitting observations to a repository must be described as serious in some way or other, even if that person never does go on a twitch <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> and even if some of the lists only contain what have come to the garden feeders.CheersNiels</blockquote>