[cayugabirds-l] Bird strikes-new research
suggesting work on limiting airport area food sources--research done in Perth Australia. Source: Coghlan, M.L. et al. 2013. Metabarcoding avian diets at airports: Implications for birdstrike hazard management planning. Investigative Genetics doi: 10.1186/2041-2223-4-27. To read a more general write up of this paper, you can go to Conservation Mag online: http://conservationmagazine.org/2013/12/bird-guts-contain-clues-reducing-plane-crashes/ Anne Anne B. Clark Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you--Wendell Berry. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] murmuration of Starlings
I stepped outside into my front yard this morning to see and hear the wing beats of a huge murmuration of E. STARLINGS undulating in the sky between tall, bare perching trees and the many Cedar trees laden with blue berries. The birds would eat for a few minutes then some unknown-to-me trigger would signal them to fly off again in a huge group, to the perch trees. Then in a minute they would be aloft again, and back in the Cedars eating the berries. The Cedars are packed with their blue berries this year, but will soon be de-nuded, if this invasion keeps up! Donna L. Scott 535 Lansing Station Road Lansing, NY 14882 d...@cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Saturday field trip
Hi all, I am leading a field trip on Saturday, 21st, up the east side of Cayuga Lake to look for Short-eared Owls. We meet at the Lab-of-O parking lot at 2:30pm and should be back no later than 6pm. They are owls and operate on their own schedule, not mine, but hopefully we will see some. The temperature is forecast to be warmer than it has lately, but we will be standing outside for a time so dress appropriately. Cheers, Gary -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Stevenson Road Compost-Horned Larks
1300h There were about 10 horned larks (all adults except one immature) foraging in newly manured field, W of the driveway into the Compost Facility and N of the Pheasant pens. Just to be complete--also present in the Compost Facility area (mounds, manured field, Dodge x Stevenson Rd) were 2-300 American crows, 2 Turkey Vultures (last seen monitoring an immature Redtailed Hawk that had just killed a pheasant in the pens), Ring billed Gulls, Herring Gulls, a few Great Black-backed Gulls, many more Red-tailed hawks (12-15?), 1 Cooper's hawk, starlings and a very dependable large flock of House Sparrows in the hedges along the drive. No unusual gulls noted. One interesting American crow interaction: an adult was preening a second crow (ragged tailed--unsure of age) when a third came in directly to the preener. This one marched back and forth, pausing and bowing its head (invite preen) at various angles to the preener, who was now just standing quietly. Then a fourth came in, paused, looked at the others and made its way to the head end of the preener; it too held a slightly head-down position and looked like it was in the act of solicitation when something brought a bunch of crows up including the much-sought preener. All unbanded...I can only make up stories. But the event resembled some we have seen in spring, when young birds try to insert themselves into parental allo-preening. Anne -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Ithaca airport, Wed 12/18
A strange eBay snafu involving a trident-wielding Santa in swim trunks, a Yugoslav mortar and pestle, a catcher's mitt, and three mutual strangers on two coasts compelled me to the Ithaca post office this afternoon. Having dispatched that business (which is actually much more boring than it might sound) with surprisingly little wait, I had some free time. So I decided to look for birds behind the airport. To my continued mild surprise, I again found no Snowy Owls, but still I felt nicely rewarded with views of a light-morph ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK at rest and in the air near the Snyder/Mohawk intersection - my first encounter with this species this winter. I also saw eight EASTERN BLUEBIRDS flying south over suburban northeast Ithaca this morning. Mark Chao --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Snowy Owl Seybolt Seneca Falls
Seybolt Rd. sighting again...in field, on 'gas well' ~100 yards West of Seybolt and Reese Rd. http://www.flickr.com/photos/105424358@N06/11440371533/ A banded Kestrel nearby... http://www.flickr.com/photos/105424358@N06/11440374753/ -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] A murder of crows
Before 7:30 this morning we observed a murder of crows, I would just estimate at close to 1000?, multiple hundreds anyway, come up along the tree line heading south right over our house on South Hill past Upper Buttermilk Park. I was struck at how low they were flying, and they just kept coming for at least 15 minutes. Just a very few rested awhile in a treetop at the intersection of Sandbank Rd. and W.King road and then kept going. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] A murder of crows
If you want to see impressive murders of crows, come to Auburn just before dark watch 'til it's full dark. If you arrive 1/4 to 1/2 hr. before dark you may get to see dozens to a couple hundred Am. robins coming in to roost with the crows. I find it totally fascinating no matter how many times I see them. Fritzie, in Union Springs, where gas was $3.48.9 this sunny, cold, 32 deg. day. - Original Message - From: Tobias Dean Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 6:40 PM Before 7:30 this morning we observed a murder of crows, I would just estimate at close to 1000?, multiple hundreds anyway, come up along the tree line heading south right over our house on South Hill past Upper Buttermilk Park. I was struck at how low they were flying, and they just kept coming for at least 15 minutes. Just a very few rested awhile in a treetop at the intersection of Sandbank Rd. and W.King road and then kept going. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
