[MDOsprey] Fwd: Your irruptive bird sightings needed!

Charlie Muise (cmmbirds@yahoo.com)
Sun, 7 Nov 1999 13:32:49 -0800 (PST) 

Hi folks,

Thought you might be interested in this RFI. 
Phil, you can ignore the part about PISI.

Charlie

--- Allison Wells <amw25@CORNELL.EDU> wrote:
> Date:         Fri, 5 Nov 1999 15:04:36 -0500
> Reply-to: Allison Wells <amw25@CORNELL.EDU>
> From: Allison Wells <amw25@CORNELL.EDU>
> Subject:      [BIRDCHAT] Your irruptive bird
> sightings needed!
> To: BIRDCHAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
> 
> Greetings, Chatters-
> 
> Before you gear up to go out birding this
> weekend, I wanted to let you all
> know that we at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
> and National Audubon have
> begun tracking the anticipated irruption of
> winter finches and other
> species, which seems already underway in some
> regions. We've expanded our
> North American Winter Finch and Red-breasted
> Nuthatch Survey of two years
> back to create the Irruptive Bird Survey.
> Thanks to your reports and those
> of birders across North America, we were able
> to track the massive invasion
> of 1997-98. Now, we're looking forward to
> finding out the extent of this
> year's irruption. The list of species vary
> depending upon which part of the
> continent you're reporting from.
> 
> We invite you to visit BirdSource at
> http://www.birdsource.org to see which
> species we're tracking. Please enter any
> sightings you have into the
> database - it only takes a minute. These will
> be combined with observations
> all over North America. You'll be able to view
> findings right at the web
> site. Results will be regularly updated, so you
> should check back often.
> Please note that you can back-enter reports of
> irruptive species you saw in
> the recent past.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help. It's
> invaluable.
> 
> Allison Wells
> Cornell Lab of Ornithology and BirdSource
> Ithaca, NY  14850
> http://birds.cornell.edu
> http://www.birdsource.org
> 


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cmmbirds@yahoo.com
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