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["Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

A Eurasian Collared-Dove was reported in Hawkins County at Bulls Gap, TN.  This 
is a county adjacent to the Virginia state border in Southwest Virginia.
The 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 leading into Scott an Wise counties 
of Virginia.

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.  It has been moving northward thru East Tennessee 
towards the Virginia line in recent years.

Let's go birding.....

Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN






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