[mou] 'Cassiar" Juncos, Nokomis area

I am having a few 'Cassiar' Juncos mingling with my Slate-coloreds browsing below my feeders east of Lake Nokomis. Thie race of Junco is apprently an intermediate between the our typical Slate-colored variety and the more western Pink-sided and Oregon types. The females are showing brown, not

[mou] Snow Goose - Locke Park (Anoka County)

I can not see enough detail and it may be larger than it appears, but from the pictures this looks like a Ross's Goose to me. Steve Weston - Original Message - From: "Jason Bolish" To: "Minnesota MOU" Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 9:50 AM Subject: [mou] Snow Goose - Locke Park (An

[mou] Nothing to report

All, Nothing to report. But we have recently (past year) re-located to Minnesota & Twin Cities (e.g. I am a native New Yorker - from NYC). [And I will remind you - if you travel to NYC - you must get to the Jamaica Bay Refuge - another great Atlantic flyway. This is where I first experien

[mou] Snow Goose - Locke Park (Anoka County)

At least in the first photo it does appear that the bird is somewhat smaller than the Canada Goose; however, notice that this bird is behind the Canada Goose in the same image, and thus its size is distorted by perspective. In the next two images, its size looks appropriate for a Snow Goose

[mou] Snow Goose - Locke Park (Anoka County)

I looked over a few of the Canada Goose flocks in the area this morning & didn't see the Snow Goose. Thanks for all of the comments on this bird! Latest consensus has been a SnowXRoss Hybrid (great analysis in the Sibley Book page 79.) Pure white head of a Ross's with a larger bill of a Snow. He

[mou] Snow Goose - Locke Park (Anoka County)

I wouldn't call this bird a hybrid for the following reasons: The "clean white head" of a Ross's Goose is not diagnostic; Snow Geese can also have very white heads, with little or no yellowish wash in the face. The amount of yellow that Sibley shows on the heads of Snow Geese is quite libera

[mou] looking for gray partridge

DO NOT REPLY TO JIM WILLIAMS REPLY TO PAT VALENTIK AT jettpakk at GMAIL.COM Begin forwarded message: From: J Pat Valentik Date: October 18, 2007 2:06:35 PM CDT To: BIRDCHAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Does anyone have a recommendation for Gray Partridge in N Iowa or S Minnesota in the next two wee

[mou] Autumn Migration Birding & Superior Ecology Festival

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[mou] Hawk Ridge: Weekend FUN

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[mou] MOU RBA 18 October 2007

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[mou] Duluth RBA 10/18/07

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[mou] Northwest Minnesota Birding Report- Thursday, October 18, 2007

it Lakes area birders please call 847-9202. Please include the county where the sighting took place. The next scheduled update of this report is Thursday, October 25, 2007. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20071018/313f91b2/attachment.html