Given the recent commentary, I thought some metrics on eBird participation in Ohio may be of interest. As of 16 Jun 2009, the following 16 counties had seen the least coverage. COUNTY CHECKLISTS SPECIES TOTAL Monroe 9 61 Noble 11 98 Van Wert 14 47 Harrison 18 72 Morgan 20 84 Vinton 24 110 Perry 29 66 Carroll 32 105 Jackson 34 106 Belmont 36 141 Paulding 43 99 Guernsey 54 125 Fayette 55 114 Lawrence 60 119 Morrow 66 116 Pike 75 159 ... and the top 16 counties Montgomery 1283 245 Clermont 1402 248 Warren 1443 258 Lake 1456 268 Geauga 1508 217 Erie 1691 276 Portage 1734 230 Delaware 2090 265 Richland 2148 241 Summit 3613 255 Ottawa 3943 301 Lucas 4155 307 Hamilton 4470 259 Cuyahoga 4790 299 Lorain 5001 290 Franklin 6638 271 Visually this translates into this national map http://ebird.org/content/ebird/images/GoogleEarthCountymap.jpg Ohio compares with these top national counties Wisconsin Milwaukee 15565 327 Minnesota St. Louis 16333 324 Massachusetts Essex 16398 400 California Los Angeles 19071 489 Illinois Cook 21476 341 New York Tompkins 24285 305 For more on eBird's MOST WANTED COUNTIES ... view this article. http://ebird.org/content/ebird/news/ebirds-most-wanted-counties thanks to all who participate in eBird Vic Fazio Lawton, OK eBird Reviewer, OH http://ebird.org North American Birds Regional Editor, OH-WV http://www.aba.org/nab/ ... now available through SORA http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/NAB/index.php ______________________________________________________________________ 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]