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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ovenbird43" data-source="post: 3345550" data-attributes="member: 64478">I don't read that as the 350-400 figure being nonsense or intentionally inaccurate, just an average range but there might be some annual counts that are higher or lower.But I still think we can eliminate some of the states with the highest expected totals for a Big Year effort (e.g. closer to or greater than 500 spp), like California.  But really, an expected range between 300-400 doesn't eliminate very many possibilities.</blockquote>