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From: dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu (David Mark)
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Subject: Re: Hummingbird lists
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Date: 20 Aug 90 22:18:12 GMT
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Some Hummingbird Numbers:

22   The number of species of hummingbirds on the ABA (USA + Canada)
     Checklist, now that Xantus' has been added.

16   The number of hummingbird species "which regularly occur north of the
     Mexican border" in North America, according to the ABA's "Traveler's
     List and Check List"

15   The number of hummingbird species seen in the US in 1979 by Jim Vardaman
     as part of his 1979 "Big Year" record (since broken) of 699 species.
     (All the "regulars" except Berylline.)  (Source: "Call Collect and Ask
     for Birdman" by Jim Vardaman.)

14   My ABA-area hummingbird species life-time total.  (All of the regulars
     except Berylline and Violet-crowned.)

 8   The single-DAY record for hummingbird species, set in Ramsey Canyon and
     the Huachuca, southeast Arizona, April 25 1979, by Benton Basham, Jon
     Dunn, Stephen Dresman, Joe Taylor, and Jim Tucker.  (Source: "The 
     Pettingell Book of Birding Records".)

 0   The number of hummingbirds I have ever seen in my yard!


David Mark
dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu