FreeLists / bristol-birds / [Bristol-Birds] Eurasian Collared-Dove in Hawkins Co. TN

["Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

A telephone call came earlier this evening reporting a Eurasian Collared-Dove 
in Hawkins County at Bulls Gap, TN.  This extends the Upper East Tennessee 
distribution to a county along the Virginia state border and just west of and 
adjacent to Sullivan, one of the tradional five counties we call Northeast 
Tennessee. It has been previously found in Jefferson County on  7 January 2001 
when a single bird was seen by David Trently.
It will soon be found in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia.

The new report was Sunday, 6 May 2004, by John Rucker a naturalist known to me. 
 John says the bird was in a dead snag adjacent to his property which is 
located at 121 Church Street in Bulls Gap.  He was familiar with the species 
from having learned it in 2002 at McClellanville, SC just north of Charleston.  
But yesterday he used a pair of 8x binoculars and double checked against his 
Sibley's bird book to make sure he had everything covered.  The location is 
along the Norfolk Southern Railway trackage.

John said he heard the bird calling and recognized the sound and quickly 
checked it with his binoculars.  He was able to get a long and good look at all 
of the markings including the shape of the tail and the black collar marking.

The species has rapidly spready across Tennessee during the past 10 years and 
more so in the last few.

Let's go birding.....

Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN






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