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Marc Parnell

Hi Redwikipedian: I'm wondering about the truth of the statement "his first-of-their-kind monthly birding forecasts for each species give month-by-month values for local frequency and ease-of-finding". Certainly Sibley's "Birds of Cape May" had bar charts showing monthly likelihood of finding every species that had ever occurred in that region way back in 1993 – i.e. long before these books were published! MeegsC (talk) 22:13, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

Hi MeegsC! This is a very good point. I was primarily working from the news sources that I was able to locate when citing, and several seemed to stress this particular point... From my interpretation of Parnell's guides (a couple of which are on hand) and Sibley's (similarly), it seems as if Parnell's charts are a bit more nuanced in their approach: including aspects of ease-of-finding (e.g., how likely an average birder is to find a certain bird) as part of his bar chart formulas, rather than an exclusively frequency-based methodology. Perhaps one other guide that I can personally recall has also taken a similar bar chart approach to "Birds of Cape May," but the introduction likewise mentioned that it was strictly frequency-based.

As far as I can tell, this would be the basis for the journalists suggesting that they are "first-of-their-kind" but perhaps not "first," if you will. So this would potentially mark a development of this particular feature in birding field guides. Redwikipedian (talk) 04:27, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

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