Spurred on by an interesting post by Bill Whan dated 3 June regarding regional checklists, I thought this eBird perspective may be of interest. In reference to the regional checklist totals given by Bill in that post, I give here the percentage of those species totals represented at the moment within the eBird database. eBird listing for Cleveland Region (Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage, Summit) - 92% of the published literature. http://tinyurl.com/23t4eqa eBird listing for Toledo (Fulton, Henry, Lucas, Ottawa, Wood) - 92% http://tinyurl.com/26xezpn Franklin County alone - 85% of 330. eBird listing for Greater Columbus (Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin, Madison, Pickaway, Union) ... 301 species http://tinyurl.com/27b4vcl if Franklin County is representative of the Greater Columbus area then we would expect this region has recorded about 354 species. For the curious ... current eBird listings for Dayton / Cincinnati (Butler, Clermont, Greene, Hamilton, Montgomery, Preble, Warren) ... 308 species http://tinyurl.com/23au76u Heart of Amish country (Ashland, Coshocton, Holmes, Knox, Stark, Tuscarawas, Wayne) ... 279 species http://tinyurl.com/248zexa Sandusky Plains (Crawford, Hancock, Hardin, Marion, Sandusky, Seneca, Wyandot) ... 311 species http://tinyurl.com/23hoh8h or make up your own regional checklist http://tinyurl.com/29xnrsv (hold down the CTRL key to select individual counties) cheers Vic Fazio Lawton/Fort Sill M.R., OK PS> We surpassed 3000 checklists submitted to Ohio eBird in May (3200+) for the first time. No less than 37 observres submitted an entry for the 14 May Magee Marsh Kirtland's Warbler. My thanks to all participants. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]