I and the Bird 98

A diverse I and the Bird is up at Biological Ramblings:

Our good Earth is blessed with c. 10,000 species of birds, depending on your taxonomic preferences and definition of a species (Birdlife International checklist - 9,990 species with several hundred taxa under review). This impressive diversity keeps us enthralled, and blogging, with each of us finding our own aspect of bird life to love. One of the things I love is the diversity itself, so I set about in this, the 98th edition of I and the Bird, to quantify just how many avian species and families we can pack into one biweekly blog carnival. And man, you guys did not make mine an easy job! Bird bloggers submitted an impressive total of 190 species of birds spanning 65 families and 142 genera.

Definitely check it out. (And I didn't miss this one! Two of those species are mine! w00t!)