The Gyr discussion might be further advance thru web resources: [Texas Bird Records Com.] http://www.texasbirds.org/tbrc/gyr.htm http://www.mangoverde.com/birdsound/picpages/pic32-59-1.html http://vireo.acnatsci.org/search.html?Form=Search&SEARCHBY=Common&KEYWORDS=Gyrfalcon&RESULTS=100&Search2=Search http://www.peregrine-foundation.ca/raptors/Gyrfalcon.html http://www.birdinfo.com/Gyrfalcon.html#Identification - - - - -
reports from western NY including American Avocet, 8 Greater White-fronted Geese, and a late Hooded Warbler - via Genesee Birds: http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/GENE.html - - - - - LeConte's Sparrow, New Jersey, 26-28 Oct. - & also Ash-throated Flycatcher, N.J. - 26 Oct. http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NJBC.html http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NJBC.html#1256660216 http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NJBD.html#1256770534 http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NJBD.html#1256770534 - - - - - New Castle Co., Delaware, Oct 25, a WOOD STORK flew past Ashland Nature Center Hawk Watch, & later seen at Militia Hill Hawk Watch in Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania. [if continuing on that flight pathway the stork could now be somewhere in NY state...] Reports below, scroll to Oct. 25: http://hawkcount.org/month_summary.php?rsite=423 http://hawkcount.org/month_summary.php?rsite=663 - - - - - More on very interesting science-based news of: "First Evidence For A Second Breeding Season Among Migratory Songbirds" http://www.freelists.org/post/tn-bird/Evidence-for-a-second-breeding-season http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/TNBD.html#1256733711 Good birding, Tom Fiore, Manhattan _________ -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
