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Hello and welcome to the American Birding podcast from the American Birding Association.

I'm Nate Swick. Before we get too far into the show today, I wanted to touch back on a question

I asked last week about which ABA metropolitan area,

that is city in the USR, Canada, has the greatest goal diversity. I wasn't sure whether I'd get

any responses to this question because one, it's goals and two. It's counting goals.

But Chris Ortega of Pittsburgh, California came to the rescue, and unsurprisingly, he points to his neck of the woods.

He writes that he was immediately triggered by the East Coast Bias Fair.

And he posits that it is the Bay Area, which by his count has recorded 24 goal species,

including some winners like Swallow-Tailed and Kelpkel, plus most of the regularly occurring ABA goal species,

that is the metro area with the largest list.

Interestingly, the Bay Area even lost a goal back in the Iceland. Thayer's goal lump still manages to be up on top. Here is the question that I am

considering, though, is the Bay Area, by which Chris includes the five coastal counties from

Marin to Santa Cruz, a metropolitan

area. And I suppose it's my fault for being kind of vague on what constitutes a metro area.

I'm thinking of New York, which I guess is five counties, though, might not include the

end of Long Island. Cleveland is one county. Chicago is probably two. Toronto could be many counties.

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