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Index of Subjects I believe I may have clarified some of these points in the most recent email. I find I am always consulting Ian McLaren’s book to get an idea of when some birds arrive in Soringtime. This table is sort of like those migration entries in All the Birds of Nova Scotia, but summarized in easy tabular form for each year from 2014 onwards. If it is of no use to anyone, it will be discarded. However I think it will be worthwhile. But we will not know until we try. Nancy Sent from my iPad > On Mar 21, 2018, at 4:28 PM, Rick Whitman <dendroica.caerulescens@gmail.com> wrote: > > It quickly becomes clear that the concept is complicated. Developing a TABLE presentation for this topic is nothing like the Birds of Winter List or the February List. For those it is Seen or Not Seen, province-wide, end of discussion. > > First Spring Arrivals in Table form, for the entire province, also has to be binary, does it not ? Or how many Tables with how many location boxes per species will be needed ? > > As proposed: > Almost-Rigid-Migrants included, All Others not > First Record included, All Later Records not. > > Aside from the above concept, you very quickly go to a set of tables for each County (?) or a written Discussion much like we already have (had) in NS Birds. No ? > > I believe the actual question is whether the birding community feels a single table approach for Almost-Rigid-Migrants, First Record only, province-wide, adds to our total knowledge in a useful way. > > When I saw the first notice from Alix, I thought it was very exciting and was surprised that a few individuals had taken it on. If the core objective is to monitor the impact of climate change, you probably do need province-wide dates to reduce random variation at the (say) County level. > > Regards, > Rick Whitman
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