Hey birders! Here's my exotics list from Sunday: big white duck (?), Chukar, Common Peafowl, Black Swan, Mute Swan--all from Blue Earth County. Yes, they were escapees or domestics but still worth mentioning (maybe the Mutes were a breeding pair--I didn't lift them out of the water to see if they were banded).
Here's my lifelist for escapees/exotics seen in the field either in Wisconsin or Minnesota: Barnacle Goose--flew in daily with a flock of Canada Geese from the Milwaukee Zoo to a nearby pond I frequently birded Tufted Duck--Blue Lake Sewage Ponds Cockatiel African Gray Parrot Budgerigar Canary Helmeted Guineafowl Vulturine Guineafowl Greylag Goose Common Peafowl--Milwaukee Zoo escapee Chinese Goose I think it is worth recording exotics and escapees but it is also worth noting the circumstances that lead to their occurence. Happy birding! Chad Heins Mankato, MN ____________________________________________________________________________________ Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC