[birdky] Re: birdky Digest V7 #181
- From: Barbara Joe Schmidlapp napora <barbara2joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:58:21 -0400
In case you don't get enough replies and want to travel to Ashland ky boyd
county, I usually have a couple of pairs of carolina wrens. Just had some
hatch in my husband's tilly hat on the back porch.
I understand you would like to have it closer but I would be happy to help out
if you need to expand your territory.
barbara schmidlapp
ashland ky
> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:21:22 -0400
> From: ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: birdky Digest V7 #181
>
> birdky Digest Thu, 10 Jul 2008 Volume: 07 Issue: 181
>
> In This Issue:
> [birdky] Re: Birds feeding on wild cherry trees
> [birdky] Carolina wren mating strategies
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> From: "Lyneart" <lyneart@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [birdky] Re: Birds feeding on wild cherry trees
> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:58:13 -0500
>
> The wild cherry crop is unusually heavy here too. I had not thought about
> acorns until receiving Linda's message and had to check. I couldn't find
> acorns on any oak tree with limbs low enough to check. All our Sassafras
> trees are also without berries this year. Still recuperating from last year's
> stress, maybe? The hickory trees do have nuts, and there are beech nuts,
> persimmons, mulberries, Rusty Haw berries and hackberries. Maybe wildlife
> won't starve this winter.
> Frank Lyne frank@xxxxxxxxxxx near Dot in Logan County
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> From: "Shannon Trimboli" <shannontrimboli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [birdky] Carolina wren mating strategies
> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:31:00 -0600
>
> Hi,
> I'm a graduate student at Western Kentucky University who is studying
> Carolina wrens and their mating strategy. Most of our songbirds form pair
> bonds every spring and attempt to raise a clutch or two of young together.
> Scientists used to think that those pair bonds were monogamous and that
> within each breeding season the birds were faithful to their mate. However,
> within the past decade or two, scientists have realized that in reality there
> is alot of cheating going on with most species. Carolina wrens are one of the
> few exceptions. DNA testing has shown that Carolina wrens are both socially
> and genetically monogamous -- in other words they don't cheat.
> I'm interested in studying why Carolina wrens don't cheat. If almost every
> other species cheats then that tends to indicate that there must be an
> advantage for birds to cheat on their mates. So what's different about
> Carolina wrens? Why is something that is apparently beneficial to almost
> every other species of songbird, not beneficial to Carolina wrens? Why are
> they truly monogamous when most songbirds only appear to be? Those are the
> types of questions that I'm interested in studying. My thesis research will
> be looking at two possible answers to those questions.
>
> If possible, I would like to conduct my research using "backyard" wrens in
> Warren, Simpson, and Barren counties. By the end of August, I plan to capture
> and color band 15 pairs of Carolina wrens. Over the next year I will be
> conducting monthly behavioral observations of each pair of wrens. I will also
> be asking the backyard owners to conduct what I call "opportunistic
> observations." Basically, if you happen to see the birds, then I'll ask you
> to record what they are doing, who they are with, where they are in your
> backyard, just simple stuff like that. Those observations will be done
> whenever it is convenient to you and you happen to see the birds, so there
> won't be a huge time commitment on your part. However, if you want to do lots
> of opportunistic observations -- wonderful! The more data I have, the more
> complete of a picture I can get of what the wrens are doing and why they may
> be doing that. If you don't have time to do many opportunistic observations,
> that's fine too.
> I know we've all got busy schedules and other time commitments. That's why
> I'll be doing the monthly observations.
>
> If you have a pair of Carolina wrens living in your yard that you might be
> willing to let me study or you are interested in learning more about my
> research, please contact me off list. I'll be happy to answer any questions
> that you have. Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Happy birding and have a great day!
> Shannon Trimboli
> Franklin, KY (Simpson County)
> WKU graduate student
> shannontrimboli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> shannon.trimboli@xxxxxxx
>
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