Late Season Mega's on the loose!!!!!!

Least Tern - Ohio (check birding Ohio facebook page - if you have stupid facebook)..

Mottled Ducks in Chicago -

http://www.ilbirds.com/index.php?topic=53338.msg88317#new



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Non stop southerly flow for days may actually be paying dividends...

I'm not really making any predictions here.. Just watching what has been reported and looking at the wind map.. I might even do something crazy tomorrow (go birding for a bit)...


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Most Checklists Submitted for Current Month

• California -- 22244
• Ontario -- 18164
• New York -- 16233
• Texas -- 15573
• Wisconsin -- 13291
• Pennsylvania -- 12321
• Michigan -- 11605
• Massachusetts -- 11537
• Ohio -- 10622
• Illinois -- 10530
• Florida -- 9016
• New Jersey -- 8674
• Maryland -- 8423
• Washington -- 8378
• Oregon -- 7245
• Virginia -- 6872
• Colorado -- 6601
• Arizona -- 6329
• Minnesota -- 6090
• British Columbia -- 5072
• Connecticut -- 4865
• Georgia -- 4476
• Alaska -- 4236
• North Carolina -- 4145
• New Hampshire -- 4000

Congrats to Ontario for getting 2nd on ebird for the month for checklists!

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Population for the top 10 (11):


Cali - 38,041,430

ON - 13,505,900

NY: 19,570,261

Texas: 26,059,203

WI: 5,726,398

Penn: 12,763,536

MI: 9,883,360

Mass: 6,646,144

Ohio: 11,544,225

Ill: 12,875,255

Fla: 19,317,568




New ebird-super-score rankings:


WI - 21.21

MA - 17.36

ON - 13.45

MI - 11.74

PA - 9.65

OH - 9.20

NY - 8.29

IL - 8.18

TX - 5.98

CA - 5.85

FL - 4.67


Long story short - Wisconsin is KICKING OUR BACKSIDE on ebird..  Although I just figured out that Alaska's score is 57.91 - so they really are as well (but are they Alaskan birders?!) Anyways..


If you haven't signed up for ebird yet, you should! It really is rather awesome...