Hey, all. Here's a little ditty, posted this morning to The ABA Blog, on Debbie Leick's Gray-cheeked Thrush in Montana, USA. Also, the broader story of the online version of Flight Calls of Migratory Birds. Here:
http://blog.aba.org/2017/11/nocturnal-flight-calls-online.html Ted Floyd Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado, USA =================================== Ted Floyd Editor, *Birding* magazine Managing Editor, *North American Birds* Website: http://aba.org/birding Twitter: http://twitter.com/BirdingMagazine <https://twitter.com/BirdingMagazine> The ABA Blog: http://blog.aba.org/ On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 7:09 PM, Kenneth V. Rosenberg <k...@cornell.edu> wrote: > Pretty definitely a Gray-cheeked Thrush. I just heard many in Panamá after > hearing them in NY earlier in the fall. Will be interesting to see how this > is treated by the records Committees. > > Ken > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Nov 8, 2017, at 7:08 PM, Ted Floyd <tfl...@aba.org> wrote: > > Sure looks (and sounds) like it to me. I think you can even rule out > Bicknell's, haha. > > As you say, it is exciting. This brings up something I've been meaning to > propose: Given how many Gray-cheeked and Swainson's thrushes are actually > seen in Britain, it occurs to me that it might be cool to put up a detector > on the Isles of Scilly pointing out toward the ocean. Especially near a > light, if there is one. We all know the truism that you can hear more > Gray-cheeks in an hour than you might see in a lifetime. If that applies to > thrushes excitedly approaching the British Isles, imagine how many thrushes > you might detect that way. > > Best, --Ted > > Ted Floyd > Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado > > =================================== > > Ted Floyd > Editor, *Birding* magazine > Managing Editor, *North American Birds* > > Website: http://aba.org/birding > Twitter: http://twitter.com/BirdingMagazine > <https://twitter.com/BirdingMagazine> > The ABA Blog: http://blog.aba.org/ > > On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 3:09 PM, Debbie Leick <dle...@mpgranch.com> wrote: > >> Hey folks, >> Could this be anything other than a Gray-cheeked Thrush? We get many >> Swainson's Thrush but this is so different. Recorded in Victor, MT, >> 9/14/17, ~5:45am. It would be a first for us since we began monitoring in >> 2012. Also, I could not find any records of GCTH west of the Montana >> continental divide in either eBird or the MT Natural Heritage Program >> database. So if it is, a very exciting record for us! >> Thanks in advance for any guidance! >> Debbie >> >> -- >> *NFC-L List Info:* >> Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_WELCOME> >> Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_RULES> >> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave >> <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> >> *Archives:* >> The Mail Archive >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> >> Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L> >> Birding.ABA.Org <http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NFC> >> *Please submit your observations to eBird >> <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>!* >> -- >> > > -- > *NFC-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_WELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_RULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L> > Birding.ABA.Org <http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NFC> > *Please submit your observations to eBird > <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>!* > -- > > -- > *NFC-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_WELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_RULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L> > Birding.ABA.Org <http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NFC> > *Please submit your observations to eBird > <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>!* > -- > -- NFC-L List Info: Welcome and Basics � http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_WELCOME Rules and Information � http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_RULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leave � http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archive � http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirds � http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L Birding.ABA.Org � http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NFC Please submit your observations to eBird! ��http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
