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
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
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From: "Jason Bolish"
To: "Minnesota MOU"
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 9:50 AM
Subject: [mou] Snow Goose - Locke Park (An
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
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
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
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
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REPLY TO PAT VALENTIK AT jettpakk at GMAIL.COM
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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
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> What's the current fall raptor count?
> www.hawkcount.org/month_summary.php?rsite=288
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> Need info on visiting Hawk Ridge?
> www.hawkridge.org/visit/visit.html
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west of the parking
lot.
The next scheduled update of this tape is Thursday, October 25th 2007.
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n the MOU, either write us c/o the Bell Museum, e-mail us
at mou at moumn.org, or visit the MOU web site at moumn.org.
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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.
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