Frank O’Connor’s mention of a WA big year got me thinking about state big years. It was well covered on birding-aus when the Victorian big year was attempted and broken a couple of years back, but I can’t find any reference in the archives to any big years for NSW (for example), or even any reference to best year totals by those who incidently ended the year with a large sum. In light of that, does anyone know what the best year totals are for the states and territories? And how do our offshore territories work in the case of state lists and subsequent year lists? Lord Howe is accepted to be part of NSW, yet Norfolk Island (I don’t believe) counts on the Queensland list, and surely Macquarie, Heard and Christmas Islands can’t belong to Tasmania, WA, and WA respectively? What is the determining factor? Cheers, Ashwin _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org
The best big year for Tasmania that I know of is Paul Brooks with 188 I think. He will probably see this email and correct me if that’s wrong 😛 Jeremy On 11 January 2014 17:24, robert morris < robert_p_morris@hotmail.com> wrote: _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org
Steve For clarification – Macquarie is politically part or Tasmania and Lord Howe is politically part of NSW. They are not biogeographically linked in any way. E.g. Macquarie could easily be part of Queensland – it would make as much sense. Rob Sent from my iPad _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org
Hi Ashwin. Actually, Macquarie Island is part of Tasmania. Heard Island is an external territory, as is Ashmore Reef, Norfolk Island, Cocos and Christmas Islands. Lord Howe is part of NSW. Cheers Steve Murray —–Original Message—– Ashwin Rudder Sent: Friday, 10 January 2014 12:12 AM Frank O’Connor’s mention of a WA big year got me thinking about state big years. It was well covered on birding-aus when the Victorian big year was attempted and broken a couple of years back, but I can’t find any reference in the archives to any big years for NSW (for example), or even any reference to best year totals by those who incidently ended the year with a large sum. In light of that, does anyone know what the best year totals are for the states and territories? And how do our offshore territories work in the case of state lists and subsequent year lists? Lord Howe is accepted to be part of NSW, yet Norfolk Island (I don’t believe) counts on the Queensland list, and surely Macquarie, Heard and Christmas Islands can’t belong to Tasmania, WA, and WA respectively? What is the determining factor? Cheers, Ashwin _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org