The anecdote doesn't make sense anyways, though the person probably just mixed around the details, because there are 2 official state records for GLOSSY IBIS, and we have White-faced Ibis reported nearly every year in Minnesota. We certainly have a lot more than 2 state records of White-faced Ibis. I'm sure Laura's version is probably more accurate with the appropriate birds.
Laura Erickson wrote: > I think the true story was that a Pomerine Jaeger was seen flying > between the two states--it was sometime in the 80s. Kim Eckert and I, > and maybe Mike Hendrickson, wrote it up--Mike drew a picture of the > tail. But the tail feathers didn't stick out very far, and although > they were quite rounded at the tip, the Wis committee thought it was > at least possible that the feathers had broken off and could have worn > in a rounded pattern. (At the time, there weren't the books available > with such detailed descriptions as are available now.) The MOU > committee accepted it as a Pomerine, perhaps influenced at least a bit > by Kim's great knowledge and experience with both species. (Pomerine > was a lifer for me.) At first the Wisconsin committee counted it as > Parasitic, but I believe they changed that to Jaeger spp. > > Laura Erickson > > On 3/1/07, *Mark Mulhollam* <mulho...@tc.umn.edu > <mailto:mulho...@tc.umn.edu>> wrote: > > Is the below true or just a good story? > > Mark Mulhollam > Minneapolis, Minnesota > http://www.tc.umn.edu/~mulho005 <http://www.tc.umn.edu/%7Emulho005> > > -----Original Message----- > From: National Birding Hotline Cooperative (Chat Line) > [mailto:birdc...@listserv.arizona.edu > <mailto:birdc...@listserv.arizona.edu>]On Behalf Of JIM TURNER > Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 5:41 PM > To: birdc...@listserv.arizona.edu > <mailto:birdc...@listserv.arizona.edu> > Subject: Rd: Ornithologists > > > I was told this anecdote while birding in Duluth, and cannot vouch > for its > truthfulness. In any case, my memory would mangle the details > worse, and > my apologies to anyone whose toes get stepped on. But here goes. > It seems that a dark Ibis was seen byt birders in both Duluth and > Superior, which made at least one pass between Wisconsin and > Minnesota, in > view by all the whole time. Competent birders disputed whether it > was a > Glossy or a White-faced, and finally agreed on the former, anbd > submitted > their documentation to both states. Minnesota's Ornithological > Society > disputed it, and on the basis of a single prior sighthing of a > White-faced > at the opposite corner of the state, concluded that it was the second > state record of a White-faced, . Wisconsin, being further east, > agreed > that Glossy was more probable, and admitted it as a first state > record. > So the same individual bird, seen at the same time in two states, > has now > become a precedent for future acceptance of records of two different > species in two different states. > > > Jim Turner || Traverse City, Michigan || havivoca @ yahoo.com > <http://yahoo.com> > > BirdChat Guidelines: http://www.ksu.edu/audubon/chatguidelines.html > Archives: http://listserv.arizona.edu/archives/birdchat.html > > _______________________________________________ > mnbird mailing list > mnb...@lists.mnbird.net <mailto:mnb...@lists.mnbird.net> > http://lists.mnbird.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mnbird > > > > > -- > Laura Erickson > www.birderblog.com <http://www.birderblog.com> > > > There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of > birds. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains > of nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after > the winter. > > --Rachel Carson > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > mnbird mailing list > mnb...@lists.mnbird.net > http://lists.mnbird.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mnbird >