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Bird Study Group - Other Regions in the 2005 Competition
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Other Regions

Five other regions in the province (Cold Lake, Edmonton, Fort McMurray, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat) took up the challenge to hold their own birding competitions in honour of the Province's centennial. This website includes further info and links to organisers in those regions as they become available.

Contacts in Other Regions

Burrowing Owl ©2005 Robert Frew

Alberta Bird Species Provincial Compiler (Richard Klauke): UPDATE APR. 25/06: Compilation of regional counts & provincial totals for the year. Two new species were recorded for the provincial year list. Read the summary.

Edmonton Nature Club (Gerald Romanchuk): UPDATE JAN. 15/06: Final results have been compiled and are available on the Birding Challenge 2005 section of their website. A summary is available here.

Medicine Hat (Bob Frew): UPDATE JAN. 31/06: "With 6 birders submitting reports to me, the species count was 99 as of March 30, 222 as of June 30, 247 as of Sept 30, and 261 as of Dec 30. Some highlights included American Black Duck, Harlequin Duck, Caspian Tern, Black-billed Cuckoo, Common Poorwill, Rock Wren, Yellow-breasted Chat, Grasshopper Sparrow, Indigo Bunting, Bullock's Oriole, Sage Grouse and Mountain Plover." Full species seen list.

Lethbridge Naturalists Society (Lloyd Bennett) UPDATE FEB. 27/06:
"The 2005 Birding Event resulted in 269 species from the Lethbridge birding area."

Alberta Bird Species Provincial Compiler (Richard Klauke): "I will be compiling monthly lists with the running total for the Province as well, in the hope of keeping the momentum started with the Winter List going through periods that are traditionally not birded that intensely. I have been following this format in BC and it has had tremendous support from the birding community in both the interior and coastal areas".

Cold Lake (Ted Hindmarch): "I have four personnel to date who plan to maintain individual lists, but most just willing to keep an eye out and report their sightings for the regional list.

We have defined our 2005 region as the East Central Region. It combines areas in Cold Lake, Lac La Biche, St Paul and Vermillion. Richard is compiling the regional input. I will be compiling species for Cold Lake area (basically all that falls within MD of Bonnyville), the Lac la Biche Birding Society is monitoring species reports in their area, Vermillion Naturalist Society works the southern portion and the informal birding group in St Paul, coordinated by Paul Boisvert is collecting inputs from that area.

Richard has worked out the 20,000 sq km area using Softmap. The rough area outlined on the township grid map equals about 205 townships. 1 Township equates to 93 sq km. 20000 sq km equals approx 215 townships. Therefore we plan to add 10 more townships in the southeast area (taking the area border north from Hwy 16 along SH 897). I am trying some various applications to try and make the area border a little cleaner, but keep freezing the applications. Once I have fixed up the map I will send a copy for posting with a description of the area."

Fort McMurray Wild Bird Club: Map indicating the Bird Count area agreed upon by the members of the Fort McMurray Wild Bird Club.