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Fall NAMC 1999



Your help is needed for the Fall 1999 North American Migration Count! 

Saturday, September 18, 1999, is the date of the fifth annual Fall North
American Migration Count, a one day nationwide count coordinated nationally
by Jim Stasz of Maryland.  The object of the NAMC is to obtain a "snapshot"
of migration across North America.  Count territories are counties, rather
than count circles like Christmas Bird Counts.  

In South Carolina, 16 of 46 counties were covered for the Spring 1999 NAMC.
In other words, there are still interesting counties open and even some
really plum birding areas open.  Among the counties still open are:
Newberry - which includes some rural areas around Lake Murray and a variety
of habitat ranging from river to pasture
McCormick - largely rural and possibly far enough west to catch some of the
westward-tending movement of warblers
Orangeburg - the sod farms and other rural habitat
Horry - much of it urbanized but still beachfront and still containing large
stretches of rural area
Pickens - surely mountainous enough to catch some of the movement through
the mountains
Greenvile - containing much of South Carolina's investment in "mountain
state parks" - including Caesar's Head and Jones Gap
most of the PeeDee - including Florence and Marion.

Among the plum birding areas still open are Bear Island and Donnelly WMA,
Santee Delta, and King's Mountain State Park, among others.

This is a fun count because it is somewhat free form. You can park yourself
at a likely spot for the day and conduct a stationary count or you can rip
around an entire county trying to do your own version of a county "Big Day".
You can count from pre-dawn to well past dark or you can knock off at lunch.
All I ask is that you report it to the best of your ability.  To ease the
tedious counting of individuals and species, I can e-mail you a spreadsheet
(in either Excel or MS Works format) that will automatically add up
individuals and tally species for you or if you prefer I can mail you a
paper form on which to report your results.    

For more details, contact me at   dsbailey@conterra.com  /or/
the_birdy_bailey@yahoo.com

Thanks!

Donna Bailey
South Carolina Statewide Coordinator for the North American Migration Count