ChrisBFRPKY
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My reference to your ignorance was descriptive, and I already shared my source with you. Here it is again: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/.
This is just a repository of what a relatively small percentage of birders use - completely voluntarily - to share their sightings with the world. There are multiple other programs that get birders in the field that likely overlap your public use area:
Christmas Bird Counts (annually since 1900)
Breeding Bird Survey (annually since 1966)
Kentucky Breeding Bird Atlas (1985–1991 - repeated scouring of "blocks" to maximize the number of breeding species confirmed during 5–6 years of sampling).
None of these include surveys for birds run by the public agency for their specific purposes. They do annual monitoring for breeding birds at points well-dispersed, and I'm pretty sure they're using one of my protocols. (I wrote a review for that agency's bird monitoring program several years ago.)
All of that ^ represents a minority proportion of the time and effort spent by people in your study area, just for birds. Now add in the rocks, soils, trees, fish, amphibians, mollusks, etc. to get an even better idea of how well studied the area is.
Good link thanks. I'll admit I am a little disappointed that KY ranks #43 out of #51 total in the US for birds. 388 species and 50,242 checklists. I did manage to bumble around the site and view the Edmonson county KY checklists from present date back to March 2013. It's exactly as I had said previously. If you'll view the checklists, you'll see most are mapped/recorded from the parking lot at the main entrance, the rest are recorded from the highway.
Your evidence sank your argument.
Chris B.
