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COMAL stands for “Challenge of Missouri Annual List.” Subscribers to Missouri
Wild Bird Forum share the total number of bird species they have ticked so far
this year. It may seem like an oxymoron to call it a “non-competitive
competition,” but that is just what it is. It stimulates our competitive juices
and motivates us to get out and see birds in Missouri, but it is done in a
relaxed enough way so that no one feels one-upped.
COMAL / MOBirdSMO 2008
| Name |
City |
State |
Month |
Monthly Species |
COMAL Species |
ABA Species |
Comments |
| Andy Forbes | Columbia | MO | 4/30/2008 | 0 | 212 | 226 | Picked up two lifers in Nevada. Fun month. | | Larry Lade | Saint Joseph | MO | 4/30/2008 | 0 | 201 | 204 | | | Mark Mittleman | Saint Louis | MO | 4/30/2008 | 0 | 201 | 0 | | | Kathleen Anderson | Columbia | MO | 4/30/2008 | 169 | 195 | 256 | Mew Gull at Smithville Lake!!
SLAS Bootheel trip = many FOY birds. | | Pat Lueders | Webster Groves | MO | 4/30/2008 | 176 | 194 | 295 | | | David Rogles | Saint Peters | MO | 4/30/2008 | 160 | 191 | 0 | 198 Sacred Circle | | Edge Wade | Columbia | MO | 4/30/2008 | 0 | 183 | 377 | | | Chris Barrigar | Bloomfield | MO | 4/30/2008 | 72 | 178 | 192 | COMAL species = Stoddard County species | | Patrick Harrison | Shelbyville | MO | 4/30/2008 | 0 | 176 | 0 | Picked up 30+ birds in the last seven days of April. Most of them in Shelby Co.! | | Bob Fisher | Independence | MO | 4/30/2008 | 0 | 151 | 0 | I'm catching up to the pack, but I still have a long way to go. | | Chris Barrigar | Bloomfield | MO | 3/31/2008 | 7 | 133 | 0 | | | David Rogles | St. Peter | MO | 3/31/2008 | 115 | 127 | 0 | 134 Sacred Circle | | Mark Mittleman | St. Louis | MO | 3/31/2008 | 0 | 127 | 0 | | | Larry Lade | Saint Joseph | MO | 3/31/2008 | 0 | 119 | 121 | | | Andy Forbes | Columbia | MO | 3/31/2008 | 0 | 119 | 125 | Red Crossbill and Cinnamon Teal were MO lifers. Great to see spring returning. | | Kathleen Anderson | Columbia | MO | 3/31/2008 | 90 | 111 | 201 | Red-crossbill was a first time MO bird! | | Edge Wade | Columbia | MO | 3/31/2008 | 0 | 107 | 328 | | | Pat Lueders | Webster Groves | MO | 3/31/2008 | 79 | 105 | 251 | Spent a week in March birding in Texas | | Patrick Harrison | Shelbyville | MO | 3/31/2008 | 0 | 102 | 0 | | | Bob Fisher | Independence | MO | 3/31/2008 | 0 | 87 | 0 | Somebody has to bring up the rear. | | Chris Barrigar | Bloomfield | MO | 2/28/2008 | 31 | 114 | 0 | | | Mark Mittleman | St. Louis | MO | 2/28/2008 | 0 | 102 | 0 | Highlights of the month: Spotted Towhee in St. Louis County; Short-eared Owl, both shrikes and my first-ever Missouri roadrunner sighting while on a business trip through southwest and central Missouri. | | Patrick Harrison | Shelbyville | MO | 2/28/2008 | 0 | 96 | 0 | Don't worry. I promise to SLOW down! | | David Rogles | St. Peters | MO | 2/28/2008 | 90 | 95 | 0 | 102 Sacred Circle | | Andy Forbes | Columbia | MO | 2/28/2008 | 0 | 94 | 97 | Pretty slow month. | | Kathleen Anderson | Columbia | MO | 2/28/2008 | 74 | 92 | 191 | White-crested Elaenia: I was only 2 miles or less from its location when this bird was reported on the RBA!! | | Larry Lade | Saint Joseph | MO | 2/28/2008 | 0 | 86 | 90 | | | Pat Lueders | Webster Groves | MO | 2/28/2008 | 66 | 83 | 0 | | | Edge Wade | Columbia | MO | 2/28/2008 | 0 | 79 | 293 | Crescent-chested Warbler while Kathleen was seeing the Elaenia. We have a couple of weeks home in March to "catch up" and maybe get to 80 for MO for the year. | | Bob Fisher | Independence | MO | 2/28/2008 | 60 | 63 | 63 | Accelerating to a crawl. | | Chris Barr | Bloomfield | MO | 1/31/2008 | 73 | 88 | 0 | | | Scott Schuette | Tucson | AZ | 1/31/2008 | 0 | 88 | 189 | only the first 9 days | | Kathleen Anderson | Columbia | MO | 1/31/2008 | 86 | 86 | 88 | | | Andy Forbes | Columbia | MO | 1/31/2008 | 85 | 85 | 0 | Still have a bunch of misses for the winter- Brown Creeper, etc. | | Mark Mittleman | St. Louis | MO | 1/31/2008 | 0 | 83 | 0 | | | Mark Mittleman | St. Louis | MO | 1/31/2008 | 83 | 83 | 83 | | | David Rogles | St. Peters | MO | 1/31/2008 | 79 | 79 | 88 | 88 in Sacred Circle | | Edge Wade | Columbia | MO | 1/31/2008 | 0 | 78 | 213 | First two weeks in TX. | | Pat Lueders | Webster Groves | MO | 1/31/2008 | 75 | 75 | 75 | | | Larry Lade | Saint Joseph | MO | 1/31/2008 | 69 | 69 | 69 | My lowest January total of Missouri's birds since 2001 when I had 55 species. Low total due mostly to low number of species of waterfowl in my area. | | Bob Fisher | Independence | MO | 1/31/2008 | 0 | 33 | 0 | slow start |
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