[mou] more on Median Arrival Dates

[Chuck Cole]

Why not publish as a draft and enlist member help for corrections.  That
would make the basic info available and take a step towards completion.  Put
it on the we site and annotate with revision and update dates.  It might
take quite a while longer than since 1975 before MOU forms omnicient working
group to make and release a perfect version that isn't subject to some
uncertainty due to changing times.

Chuck



> -----Original Message-----
> From: mou-net-bounces at moumn.org [mailto:mou-net-bounces at moumn.org]On
> Behalf Of Paul Budde
> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 11:34 AM
> To: 'Watson, Alexander Robert'; 'M.O.U.'
> Subject: Re: [mou] more on Median Arrival Dates
>
>
> Alex -
>
> Tthere is no desire to keep this kind of information "secret" within the
> MOU's committees.  The issues are that the dates need "scrubbing" and
> checking, and a report created.  With up to 400 species, split north and
> south, spring and fall, arrival and departure, over 20+ years
> ......there is
> a lot of data to manage!
>
> I am confident a report in some format will be published sometime
> by someone
> or some committee within the MOU, but I don't know when.
>
> Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mou-net-bounces at moumn.org
> [mailto:mou-net-bounces at moumn.org] On Behalf
> Of Watson, Alexander Robert
> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 10:53 AM
> To: M.O.U.
> Subject: [mou] more on Median Arrival Dates
>
> Hello all,
>
> I attempted to calculate the median arrival dates from Bob Janssen's 1975
> printing of the Birds of Minnesota to compare them with what is printed in
> Minnesota Birding on the calendar occasionally (thank you to all who
> responded).  Since the dates given are early and late outliers, it did not
> match up well.  That or I calculated it wrong or the data is too old.
>
> Since I received about a half dozen e-mails after my earlier
> request to see
> median arrival data, I know there is a demand for such fun
> tid-bits of nerdy
> bird data.
>
> So, I implore the avian information committee to reconsider publishing
> either online or in one of the MOU publications a list of this data.  It
> would be fun to see!  I also think that greater awareness of arrival and
> departure data could inspire more to report first sightings to refine the
> data, and give important clues as to possible influences of global climate
> change.
>