Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 09:59:15 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Jim Stasz Subject: Re: Terminology: "closeout" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Folks! As one of those who play the game my understanding of "Closeout" follows: There are 23 counties in Maryland. When you have seen a species in all 23 counties you can add that species to your Life Closeout List. Like your Life List or Maryland State List, your Life Closeout List can increase year after year. If you do a lot of birding across Maryland in a single year it is possible to see the same species in all 23 counties that year and have an Annual Closeout List. Each year your Annual Closeout List resets to zero. Good Birding! Jim Jim Stasz North Beach MD jlstasz@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================