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Subject: Big Day Bird Count

Author:
Boyd Percy

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Date Posted: 17:43:44 10/07/14 Tue

Our local newspaper, The Advocate (B.R.), had an interesting article about birding in the October 7, 2014. Several LSU ornithology students will be in Peru on October 16th to attempt to break the 24-hour record of 331 birds identified set in 1982 by the late LSU ornithologist, Ted Parker. The article said that 75% of the birds would probably be identified by their sounds.

http://theadvocate.com/news/acadiana/10427084-123/big-day-in-peru-lsu

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[> Subject: Re: Big Day Bird Count

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boyd Percy
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Date Posted: 15:50:33 11/04/14 Tue

>Our local newspaper, The Advocate (B.R.), had an
>interesting article about birding in the October 7,
>2014. Several LSU ornithology students will be in Peru
>on October 16th to attempt to break the 24-hour record
>of 331 birds identified set in 1982 by the late LSU
>ornithologist, Ted Parker. The article said that 75%
>of the birds would probably be identified by their
>sounds.
>
>

An update to the previous posting. On October 14th, a team of three ornithologists from the LSU Museum of Natural Science plus a Peruvian ornithologist set a record 24 hour count of 354 birds in the mountains of northern Peru.