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eBirders and Texas Century Club

March 23, 2009
eBirders and Texas Century Club

If you are eBirding in Texas, consider joining Texas Ornithological Society's Century Club. TOS has a webpage for each of Texas' 254 Counties listing the top ten listers and all with more than 100 species in at least one Texas county. eBird hotspots are also shown for many counties.

 

The goal is to get more eBird observation data from the many parts of Texas that are currently under-birded

 

All you need to do is find at least 100 species in one county in Texas and enter them into eBird. Then go to my eBird tab and copy the "My County Lists" page into an e-mail and send it to one of the TOS Century Club Administrators (whose contact info is at the bottom of each county page)

Click on "eBirders and Texas Century Club" Link for more details

 

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What is the Texas Century Club?

The Texas Century Club is a challenge sponsored by the Texas Ornithological Society to its members to record 100 species of birds in 100 Texas counties. Texas is big ( 254 counties) and most birders probably spend the majority of their time in less than 20 Texas counties. This is just under 8% of Texas counties!

To stimulate the exploration of the birdlife in the other 92% of Texas counties The Texas Century Club was created. The idea is to get birders to record the birds in more than the traditional hot spots. To "bird your own patch". To explore the road less traveled.

There are several levels of award; 5, 10, 25, 50 and 75 counties before you reach the ultimate goal of 100 species in 100 counties. The five county award level is open to all birders. The higher levels of awards are open only to Texas Ornithological Society Members. Here are the current  Overall Standings.

Achieving 100 counties will take hard work and dedication, but its going to be fun. You'll find all birds become important to you, no more "trash birds". You'll see more and explore more of the state than you ever dreamed.

Join me; it's going to be fun!

David Sarkozi

 

  Click here to contribute data -or- contact any individual Texas county's web page owner here

For many counties the top eBird hotspots are listed with number of species seen and for some counties there are links to where/when/by whom the last observation of each species seen in that County.

Here's some sample Texas Century Club County pages: Harris County (home of Houston).   Hidalgo County (in the Rio Grande Valley) Travis County (where Austin is located), Bexar County (where San Antonio is located). -John Berner