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could there be 100 ,1000 etc i have not encountered
no
----- Original Message -----
From: "David & Alison Webster" <dwebster@glinx.com>
To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: [NatureNS] belted kingfisher story
> Hi Murray & All, Jan 2, 2008
> I agree one must be wary of accepting any measure of a wild
> population as a fact and +- figures convey no information if the
> variance measure (e.g. standard deviation, standard error, 95%
> confidence limits) is not specified.
>
> But-- the two estimates, obtained apparently by somewhat different
> methods, of 16,000 KF (-4.67 % trend over 40 years) as compared to 4,100
> pairs (no change over 4 centuries) are remarkably similar. Note also
> that no change over 400 years does not conflict with a modest decline
> over 40 years. This of course does not demonstrate that either of these
> estimates is close to being realistic.
>
> But with respect to your 50 pairs in three counties, have you really
> bushwacked every potential lake edge, pond, run and stillwater in these
> three counties ? If not then could there be 100, or 1000 or 3000 pairs
> that you have not encountered ?
>
> A belated Happy New Year, Dave Webster, Kentville
>
> dowitcher wrote:
>
>> reading all the stuff on the thousands of belted
>>
>> kingfishers in nova scotia,i find it very hard to believe the stats.
>>
>> a matter of fack i dont.
>>
>> i done a lot of birding in yarmouth ,digby and shelburne counties
>> over the years and i know where 99 .9 per cent
>>
>> of them are each year.
>>
>> we at down and counted them up today and could not come up with 50
>> pair for the three counties total.
>>
>> now if you was to believe those stats i read about
>>
>> they must be hanging like grapes every where else.
>>
>> brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
>>
>> Murray R Newell
>> Cape Sable Island
>> Nova Scotia
>>
>
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