Hi All,
While working South Heron Lake in Jackson Co. this morning, I just flushed a
SPRAGUE'S PIPIT. It vocalized while it did its trademark stair step climb
before plummeting back to the ground.
I also had 300+ Sparrows, including over a dozen Le Conte's and a couple
Nelson's, but most were
Kim Eckert's MBW just found a SPRAGUE'S PIPIT 3/4 mi. West of the Petroglyphs
on the E/W road that runs along the north edge of the petroglyphs. They are at
the Rock Ridge SNA trying to refind it now.
LInda Sparling (With Kim's permission to post.)
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This morning, Butch Ukura and I drove over to Felton Prairie to check on
the SPRAGUE'S PIPIT that has been reported. We arrived there shortly
after 7 o'clock and walked down the fence line just past the metal pipe.
We heard the bird just to south of the fence (on the wind turbine side).
To our
The Felton Prairie Sprague's Pipit is still present this morning, continuously
skylarking from 9:00-9:50. It was joined briefly by a second bird (species
unknown, but appeared quite similar).
Park at the first fence north of the windmills, walk east along the fenceline
to metal pipeline post.
I went to Felton Prairie this morning and arrived to find Doug K. and
Steve M. They were staring up at the sky and I knew what they were
looking at. After looking up and getting a stiff neck, I noticed as Doug did,
there were two birds flying and both appeared to have the same
movement. I
I spent from about 4:30AM until 7:30AM Saturday Morning at Felton Prairie.
Directions were a little vague but I did my best. I spent most of my time
along the Longspur Road south of the large pond south of CR108 and north of
the windmills. This is kind of a large area to cover so it is
@LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of Dedrick
Benz
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012 3:38 PM
To: MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: [mou-net] Sprague's Pipit Not Refound
I spent from about 4:30AM until 7:30AM Saturday Morning at Felton Prairie.
Directions were a little vague but I did my best. I spent most of my time
From: Ron Erpelding rerpeld...@charter.net
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Sent: Saturday, June 9, 2012 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: [mou-net] Sprague's Pipit Refound @ 8:15 a.m. today
Just got back from the Felton Prairie @ 3:30 p.m. and am pleased to report
that Randy Fredrickson, Joel
Brian Gibbons is leading a VENT tour in MN/ND and he and his group
found a Sprague's Pipit at Fulton Prairie this morning. He said the
bird was singing and skylarking over the group for a couple of hours
while they were birding.
I'm not real familiar with the area, but he said the bird was
It has been brought to my attention that Fulton Prarie is in
Illinois. I'm so unfamiliar with Felton Prairie that I called it by
the wrong name!
The Sprague Pipit mentioned in my previous message was at Felton
Prairie in western MN.
Jim Lind
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Today Pete and Kathy Sufka, my
parents, and I went to Big Stone and Lac Qui Parle counties. Are highlights for
the trip were a Sprague’s pipit and Ferruginous Hawk for the day. The Pipit was
seen on 191st Avenue about a quarter mile south from Laq Qui Parle
Highway 15 (
At 4:20 this after noon there was a Sprague's Pipit at the recently burned
area near the junction of CR40 CR15 at the south-central part of the
BSNWR. The bird was initially on the road shoulder then it flew and landed
in the burn. I will post a photo on the MOU recently seen page.
Shortly after
Check out this website for the just published Sprague's Pipit conservation
plan. The Sprague's Pipit was once a common breeder in northwestern
Minnesota.
http://www.fws.gov/mountain-prairie/species/birds/spraguespipit/SpraguesJS2010r4.pdf
Region 6 (Northern Great Plains) of the US Fish and Wildlife Service
published a 12-month finding on a petition to list the Sprague's pipit
under the Endangered Species Act yesterday. The finding was that listing
is warranted, but precluded by other higher priority actions right now.
This means,
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