US and UK Birding Friends: I hope even my tardiest acquaintances have sent their Christmas cards by now so I have compiled my annual Christmas Card Bird List (all birds shown on cards, including e-cards, and their envelopes). They are listed below in order of abundance. Once again, the European Robin dominates (mostly sent from European addresses) with the Northern Cardinal again in second place (largely on cards of North American origin). European Robin Erithacus rubecula 26 Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis 9 Rook Corvus frugilegus 6 Generic Dove Columba obscurus 5 Badly-drawn Hummingbird Trochilus malscriptus 4 Blue Tit Parus caeruleus 3 Barn Owl Tyto alba 2 Emperor Penguin Aptenodytes forsteri 2 Red-crowned Crane Grus japonensis 2 Great Tit Parus major 2 Great Egret Egretta alba 1 Snowy Egret Egretta thula 1 Canada Goose Branta canadensis 1 (Winter) Wren Troglodytes troglodytes 1 Blue-winged Warbler Vermivora pinus 1 Green Jay Cyanocorax yncas 1 Robin-like Nonexistent Bird Erithacus closebutnocigarus 1 Silly-looking Penguin Spheniscus disneyii 1 Good birding in 2009! John Arnfield [apologies for cross-posting] ======================================================= John Arnfield | Shropshire, UK | <[log in to unmask]> <http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/faculty/arnfield> ======================================================= ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]