I just ran across a compilation on this list of results for predictions
of the ten bird species to be newly added to the Ohio list.  This was
back a dozen years or so, and I got predictions from 22 birders in the
state. Now, after all this time, it might be fun to see how well we did.

        Seven new birds were correctly predicted--votes in parenthesis:
Cassin's sparrow (5 votes)
Golden-crowned sparrow (5)
Fish crow (7)
Black-tailed gull (1)
Allen's hummingbird (3)
Reddish egret (1)
Eurasian collared-dove (only 1!)

        Fourteen were predicted by more than one participant but not added to
the list (not all participants contributed ten candidates):
Black skimmer (6)
Neotropic cormorant (3)
Inca dove (4)
Gray kingbird (2)
MacGillivray's warbler (3)
Ferruginous hawk (2)
Yellow-billed loon (5)
Black-chinned hummingbird (4)
Great cormorant (2)
Slaty-backed gull  (7)
Sage thrasher  (7)
Band-tailed pigeon  (2)
Ash-throated flycatcher  (9)
Fork-tailed flycatcher  (7)

        Species added to the Ohio list that no respondent nominated:
Anna's hummingbird
Black-bellied whistling-duck
Brown-headed nuthatch
White-throated swift
Cackling goose
Calliope hummingbird
Cave swallow
Dusky flycatcher
Garganey
Mountain bluebird
Green violet-ear
Red-naped sapsucker
Sooty tern
White-winged dove
Whooping crane

Looks like we predicted only less than a third of the species actually
added. Two respondents predicted four of the new ones recorded: Greg
Links and Vic Fazio.
Bill Whan
Columbus

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