>> To All Ohio Birders: Please take a look at this very unique checklist of Ohio birds that includes: >> - All bird species that are currently on the official list of Ohio birds, as of December 31, 2016. >> - The taxonomic order and nomenclature, within each section, based on the Fifty-Seventh Supplement (July 2016) >> to the AOU Checklist of North American Birds. >> - Three separate species groupings/explanations for: Easier To See (203 species), Harder to See (93 species), >> and Ohio Review List Species (132), >> - A 'difficulty code number' for each species that may be most helpful to younger or beginning birders, >> not yet familiar with which Ohio birds are more common or expected. >> Other Information: >> - This checklist may be used as a Daily, Monthly, Annual, and/or as a Life Ohio checklist. >> - It is recommended that this checklist be printed back-to-back. It can also be folded for easier transport/storage. >> - It is recommended that the 'lined' option be used as it may be important to record the date and location of 'first' sightings. >> - For a better understanding of the relative abundance and periods of peak passage for some Ohio birds, the purchase >> of the Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Ohio is also recommended. This same OBRC publication is also available via the >> OOS Website at www.ohiobirds.org. >> - Please note that the OOS and checklist authors have given permission for this current revision of The Ohio Birds Checklist with Difficulty Codes to be forwarded/added/included to other Ohio Birding List-serves, Websites, blogs, birding Facebook groups, >> etc, as presented here in the two direct links below. This checklist is also available via the OOS Website at >> www.ohiobirds.org. >> >> The two direct links of this most recent/current revision are: >> >> http://ohiobirds.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Ohio-Birding-Checklist_NoLines.pdf >> >> http://ohiobirds.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Ohio-Birding-Checklist_Lines.pdf >> >> Please consider this challenge: Take a look at the 'Easier To See' bird species (203 of them) on this Checklist. Choose >> an area (your yard, 'local patch', a Metropark, your County, the entire State of Ohio?). How many of these 203 species >> (or set your own goal) can you see/identify by the end of this year? You've likely already seen quite a few of them this January! >> >> Good Birding to everyone! >> Dan Sanders (Central Ohio) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________________ 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]