I want to just agree with everything said already about Hugh's checklists. And also, while we've been on the subject of historical checklists, I want to add this -- if anyone would like a bit of fun, check out the below article from 1917 by W.H. Bergtold, in which he describes his sightings around Denver (mainly Cheesman Park, where he resided). I encountered this essay several years ago, when I was also birding Cheesman. I particularly appreciated his note that Poorwills are "Infrequent migrants" to Cheesman Park, a fact several of us relearned about a full century after Bergtold documented it. But most tantalizing is his note that Long-eared Owls are "Frequent visitors to all the parks."
Find the article here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4154774. It should be readily available, as it's public domain... Bergtold also published a fascinating essay, albeit a profoundly hostile one, on House Sparrows; if my memory of it is right, he celebrated the introduction of automobiles as depriving House Sparrows of their favorite food (horse droppings) and putting them at risk of accidental deaths to strikes with automobiles. - Jared Del Rosso Centennial, CO On Monday, September 6, 2021 at 11:58:03 AM UTC-6 li...@archpml.com wrote: > Hugh, if you are still listening, i am a fairly new birder who would be > happy and excited to take your hard copies and input into ebird, yours i > suppose, or another location digital format. It would be a great > learning experience for me, and in the process if you would not mind, i > could pick your brain on occasion. I know you and your wife were and are > legendary in the Colorado birding community. Anyhow, if you are interested > in this, obviously logistics would have to be worked out, but please > consider if this might be an option. Selfishly, it would really help me > improve my skills and knowledge. > Linda purcell > > Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone > Get Outlook for Android <https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> > ------------------------------ > *From:* cob...@googlegroups.com <cob...@googlegroups.com> on behalf of > Charles Hundertmark <chunde...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Monday, September 6, 2021 10:40:20 AM > *To:* Scott Somershoe <ssome...@gmail.com> > *Cc:* Cobirds <cob...@googlegroups.com>; Pat O'Driscoll <pato...@gmail.com > > > *Subject:* Re: [cobirds] History - Old bird checklists > > One thing that has impressed me about Hugh is the extent to which he has > entered his old field notes into eBird. Like Pat O’Driscoll, I find when I > enter eBird reports that Hugh has been there many years before me. > > Chuck Hundertmark > Lafayette CO > > On Sep 6, 2021, at 10:05 AM, Scott Somershoe <ssome...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I completely agree with Patrick. I’d add a story about a long time > Tennessee birder and big time world birder who moved to Florida about 7 > years ago. Before Terry Witt moved, he threw nearly 50 years of birds > records in the trash. Nothing is in EBird or Avisis or archived in any > way. He told me he threw everything out because he didn’t think anyone > would want them. Such a shame. Unfortunately he passed away about a month > ago. > > Even if the records are in EBird, archiving the original field notes would > be worth the effort. > > My 2 cents. > > Scott Somershoe > Littleton CO > Green big year stands at 253 species. Zzzzzzzz. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 6, 2021, at 9:23 AM, Patrick O'Driscoll <pato...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I wholeheartedly agree with Chuck. > Pre-eBird paper lists are important artifacts of our birding history, > especially as so much of our recordkeeping has shifted to digital. > And Jeff, your remarks are a great reminder for all of us to archive our > earlier lists on eBird. > Those of us eBirders who regularly visit Denver City Park know something > about this. > Sometime after the Cornell Lab invented eBird, a prominent Colorado birder > who visited City Park regularly in his youth transferred all of his written > birding lists from there into the database. > Between 1947 and 1950, young Hugh Kingery recorded hundreds of visits and > sightings in the park. > eBird tells us now that Hugh was responsible for the first 80 species > sightings in Denver City Park, all in that period. (More than three decades > later, in 1987, he added two more first sightings.) > Hugh's 320 "Denver City Park" eBird lists far outnumber those of the rest > of us. > His is a shining example of the importance of saving all of our sightings > to the Cornell Lab's brilliant invention. > > Good eBirding! > > Patrick O'Driscoll > Denver > > > > On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 7:48 AM Charles Hundertmark <chunde...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Veteran field ornithologists like Hugh should check into archiving their > old checklists at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. It’s an > excellent archive housing the records of several of the prominent field > ornithologists from Colorado’s past. > > Chuck Hundertmark > Lafayette, CO > > On Sep 6, 2021, at 7:41 AM, Jeff Percell <jeff.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You should add the checklists onto eBird, so that everyone can benefit > from the data. > > > https://support.ebird.org/en/support/solutions/articles/48001158707-get-started-with-ebird > > Thanks, > Jeff Percell > Erie, CO > > On Sunday, September 5, 2021 at 4:58:36 PM UTC-6 ouz...@aol.com wrote: > > Does anyone know of a place that might have an interest in saving old bird > checklists? 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