Date: 5/19/26 12:28 pm From: Odette James via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: [Tweeters] Redwings
I was a compiler for an eastern Christmas bird count for about a decade and assisted my husband when he was compiler of that count for the previous decade. When he took on the job, I put the entire history of the count into a spreadsheet. I was astonished to see that in the early years of the count, the original compiler had reported Red-winged Blackbirds as Redwings, and the national count had recorded them as Redwings - the European thrush. I got in touch with the people who were maintaining the count records and got the data corrected. I wonder how many old Christmas count records have the same error. Odette James, the Lakeshore Retirement Community, where the view of the south end of Lake Washington and the Cedar River delta greets us when we enter our dining room _______________________________________________ Tweeters mailing list <Tweeters...> http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters
