[mou-net] North American Big Year record

2016-09-24 Thread Jim
If you’ve been following this year’s quest for a new North American Big Year record, the mark keeps rising. Australian birder John Weigel as of Sept. 14 had recorded 763 species. The old mark was 749. Hoping for the usual fall bonanza of Asian strays on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea,

[mou-net] North American Big Year record broken and still under attack

2016-09-02 Thread Jim Williams
Story from Washington Post http://wpo.st/7L5w1 Jim Williams birding blog at www.startribune.com/Wingnut Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html