Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:11:14 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: JAMES FELLEY Subject: Scoter numbers Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline George Jett wondered: >How can you have an exact number of "155,422 scoters" if >you have estimated the number of Black Scoters as >"About 41,000"? Simple! Try these numbers as an example: Black Scoters - about 41,000 Surf Scoters - about 114,400 White-winged scoters - exactly 22 Sum = 155,422 scoters, (plus or minus 10%, which would be "about 15,000") Why disrespect the White-winged Scoters by ignoring them in the total count? (semi-seriously) Jim Jim Felley Smithsonian Institution felleyj@si.edu ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================