In an effort to make other Ohio bird checklists comparable, I have expanded my Franklin County Checklist to include annotated species occurrences in adjacent counties: Delaware, Union, Madison, Pickaway, Licking, and Fairfield. This makes its coverage similar to that surrounding other large cities such as Dayton, Cincinnati, Toledo, Cleveland, and Akron. Franklin county records amount to 338 species, and confirmed records in the adjacent counties add 18 more: Pacific loon, magnificent frigatebird, reddish egret, cinnamon teal, common eider, harlequin duck, swallow-tailed kite, Harris's hawk, gyrfalcon, long-billed curlew, parasitic jaeger, Sabine's gull, Arctic tern, groove-billed ani, black-billed magpie, common raven, Bohemian waxwing, and painted bunting. That's 356 species in the central region. In comparison with other recent publications from Ohio regions, Larry Rosche's 2004 "Birds of the Cleveland Region" reports 367 species in seven counties, and Anderson et al. report 357 species in Lucas County and parts of four other counties, including one in Michigan. I think the Franklin County numbers are impressive compared to areas made species-rich by the presence of Lake Erie. The most recent published studies of the birds in or near Dayton (1984) and Cincinnati (in 1953!) are way out of date and not comparable. It would be interesting eventually to have recent checklists of these five regions--the Franklin County list is far more more detailed than any of the others. Ours is available online courtesy of the Columbus Audubon Society at http://www.columbusaudubon.org/index.php/2012-11-05-00-23-09/franklin-county-annotated-checklist . Bill Whan Columbus ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]