[Maine-birds] Maine Bird Atlas - Weekly Challenges, 6/26

Hi everyone:

Last week's results:
An impressive 54 confirmed Chipping Sparrow records were submitted, adding 17 new confirmed blocks to their map. Only a few people submitted the Priority Blocks they surveyed but there were 13 Priority Blocks completed this week, so we're making progress! Keep it up, this is peak-atlasing time! And better luck with Wood Thrushes this week as 3 new blocks got confirmed records. Congratulations to Daniel in Franklin, Glen from Hallowell, and Logan in Palermo for being chosen by Excel's random number generator as winners this week!

Here are the challenges for this week:

1) Yellow Warbler - confirmed records from most of our warblers have been increasing over the past week as nest building wraps up and carrying food increases. Recently fledged records are coming in for early nesters too, so watch your local warblers! Yellow Warbler can be our 'target' for confirming this week.

2) Priority Block Challenge - Repeating this from last week because this is our priority ;) for the project: We really need volunteers spending time competing Priority Blocks. Take a look at the Atlas Effort Map (https://ebird.org/atlasme/effortmap), find a priority block, go atlasing a morning or two this week, revisit 7+ days later to easily bump possible to probable records, and you're making great progress to completing the block! To track this challenge, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/tobv2xBvW82N3BAW9

3) Yellow-throated Vireo - Sorry for the southern bias on these tougher challenges, but like our last two weeks, Yellow-throated Vireo stands out as a species that just needs more effort. They've only been confirmed in 3 blocks so far, so use the eBird sightings map for inspiration of new blocks to look in: https://ebird.org/map/yetvir?neg=true&env.minX=-72.46657137102935&env.minY=42.931742964051736&env.maxX=-66.41310457415435&env.maxY=45.25115647639824&zh=true&gp=true&ev=Z&mr=6-7&bmo=6&emo=7&yr=all&byr=1900&eyr=2020 (I won't count any records from Brownfield Bog for this challenge, we know they're there…)

Good birding and happy atlasing!


Doug Hitchcox
Maine Bird Atlas - Outreach Coordinator
Maine Audubon - Staff Naturalist
207-781-2330 x237
dhitchcox@maineaudubon.org

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