FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] 2007 WSMV Tower Study Report, Nashville

["Sandy Bivens" <sandybivens@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Listed below are the bird casualties collected at the WSMV Television Tower
on Knob Hill in Davidson County, Nashville, TN during September and October
2007.  This study, which has been ongoing since 1958, was started by Amelia
Laskey and then later supervised for many years by Dr. Katherine
Goodpasture.   Birds collected are used in the teaching collection at the
Warner Park Nature Center if possible.  

 

Thanks to WSMV and the 2007 collectors Linda Kelly, Kevin Bowden, Ethel
Kawamura, Vera Vollbrecht and Chris Sloan and the helpers Bob Parrish, Deb
Beazley, Wesley Roberts, Ed Gleaves, Richard Connors, Heather Gallagher,
Diana McLusky, Susan Bradfield, Kim Bailey, John Sharlet and Jan Shaw for
making this study possible this year.  

 

Sandy Bivens

Davidson County

Nashville, TN

 

 

2007 WSMV Tower Study Report

Nashville, Tennessee

 

Collection Period:     1 September - 31 October 2007

Total Birds Collected:   25

Number of Species:    15

Birds Collected:

Red-eyed Vireo, 5

Tennessee Warbler, 4

Ovenbird, 3

            Yellow-breasted Chat, 2

Black-and-white Warbler

            Palm Warbler

            Bay-breasted Warbler

            Yellow Warbler

            Yellow-throated Warbler

            Chestnut-sided Warbler

            Ruby-crowned Kinglet

            Indigo Bunting

            Chimney Swift

            Marsh Wren

            Brown Creeper

Top Three Species:  REVI, TEWA, OVEN

 

Past 10 Years Collection Numbers:

    2007/25; 2006/90; 2005/85; 2004/28; 2003/12; 2002/56; 2001/13; 2000/43;
1999/24; 1998/32

 

 



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