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["Marsh, Scott" <SMarsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

- RBA
* Kentucky

* Statewide

* December 20, 2004

* KYKY04.04.22

- Birds Mentioned:

 

Pacific Loon

Common Loon

Horned Grebe

American White Pelican

Great Blue Heron

Black Vulture

Tundra Swan

Common Goldeneye

Bald Eagle

Red-shouldered Hawk

Rough-legged Hawk

Golden Eagle

Sandhill Crane

Wilson's Snipe

Laughing Gull

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Forster's Tern

Brown Thrasher

Cedar Waxwing

Chipping Sparrow

Rusty Blackbird

 

 

- Transcript

 

Hotline: Kentucky

Sponsor: The Kentucky Ornithological Society,
http://www.biology.eku.edu/kos.htm

Date: December 20, 2004

Number: (502) 326-0878

To Report: (502) 326-0878 or smarsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

Coverage: Kentucky and Southern Indiana

Compiled: 11:00 AM, EDT, December 20, 2004

Transcriber/Compiler: Scott Marsh

E-mail: smarsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

 

This is the Kentucky Bird Line, sponsored by the Kentucky Ornithological
Society.  This update is current as of  December 20, 2004 at 11:00 AM
EDT.  The highlights of this update are:

 

Christmas bird counts got underway this week. Highlights from the Land
Between the Lakes CBC were 43 COMMON LOON, 1 immature PACIFIC LOON (in
Demumbers Bay), 139 HORNED GREBE, 480 WHITE PELICAN, 119 GREAT BLUE
HERONS, 263 COMMON GOLDENEYE, 8 RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, 27 BALD EAGLE, I
immature GOLDEN EAGLE, 2 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL, 7 FORSTER'S TERN, a
BROWN THRASHER, and 5 FOX SPARROW. There was also a LAUGHING GULL
counted during count week.

 

The Nolan Lake CBC had a light phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK,  lots of BLACK
VULTURE, RUSTY BLACK BIRDS, and 8 WILSON'S SNIPE. SNIPE were also
mentioned from the Henderson sloughs; as were 10 TUNDRA SWAN seen in the
Sauerheber unit. 

 

There has been several postings on SANDHILL CRANES, the latest coming on
the 16th with a single bird in Logan County, and several hundred in a
fly over in Owen County.

 

Other postings of interest were 40 plus CHIPPING SPARROWS in Jefferson
County, 15-20 CEDAR WAXWINGS in Calloway County, FOX SPAROWS in
Owensboro, and 2 RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS in Ravens Run (Fayette County)

 

Thanks for calling the Kentucky Bird Line.  You may leave a report after
the tone.  Please include your name, the date, the location, and the
time of your observation when filing a report.  If your report contains
rare or out of season species, please send appropriate documentation to
the

 

KBRC

Lee McNeely, Secretary

Post Office Box 463

Burlington, KY  41005

 

More information about the KBRC and KOS may be found at the KOS web site
at http://www.biology.eku.edu/kos.htm.

- End Transcript

 


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