Hi All, Hawk Mountain PA is coordinating the turkey vulture study, on a western population of TVs.
Tonight we watched a very light male red-tail hawk escorting a group of four migrant vultures away from its territory. They took off immediately when he made a B-line toward them. Interestingly three pairs of r-t hawks are nesting less than a mile from each other. Best, Scott Severs Longmont The web link on the vultures is here: http://hawkmountain.org/media/turkey_vulture_wanted_09.pdf Here are the details: Working with colleagues in Venezuela, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary color- marked more than 350 Turkey Vultures over-wintering in northwestern Venezuela in 2006-2007 and 2008-2009. The tagged birds are members of the meridionalis, or western North American, subspecies and were tagged to study long-distance migration in the species. The birds are expected to begin migrating back toward their breeding areas in February. Their movements should take them through Central America and Mexico and into the western United States and Canada. Reports of birds will help Hawk Mountain determine the timing and geography of migration in Turkey Vultures, as well as the breeding areas of the tagged birds. Some of the birds have red tags with white numbers, others have light-blue tags with black numbers. Please report the date and specific location of your sighting, color and number of the tag, the wing (right or left) to which the tag is attached, and the circumstances of the sighting, including whether or not the bird was alone or in a group of vultures, flying or perched, feeding or roosting, etc. Dead birds also should be reported. Report sightings to Keith Bildstein, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Acopian Center for Conservation Learning, 410 Summer Valley Road, Orwigsburg, PA 17961; bildst...@hawkmtn.org; 1-570- 943-3411 ext. 108. All reports will be recognized, and individuals reporting tagged birds will receive summary information about the study. Thank you. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Join us at the 2009 Convention in Alamosa: http://cfo-link.org/convention/index.php You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
