[texbirds] Re: Fw: Re: RFI: Black-bellied Plover chicks and one-winged Whi te...
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- To: wormington@xxxxxxxx, texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 21:10:31 -0400 (EDT)
Thanks Alan, I appreciate the info. I'll try to get pics and/or better
looks tomorrow. It could have been a video/photo quiz with the breeding
plumaged adult and two juvies running to the adult, then all three flying off
together.
Stennie Meadours
San Leon
In a message dated 7/25/2013 6:15:03 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
wormington@xxxxxxxx writes:
It is WAY too early for a juvenile Black-bellied Plover to be arriving
anywhere.
Here at Point Pelee (Lake Erie), the earliest juveniles EVER are August 26
(2005), August 31 (1996) and September 2 (2003). On today's date of July
25, I doubt if any juvenile currently in the Arctic is even capable of
flight.
If the birds now in Texas look like immatures, they are undoubtedly
one-year-olds (born in 2012).
Alan Wormington
Leamington, Ontario
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Subject: [texbirds] Re: RFI: Black-bellied Plover chicks and one-winged
White Pelican ...
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:49:51 -0400 (EDT)
Thank you John, Ron and Brush!
I now understand the biologically correct meaning of "chick".
I DID mean a juvenile that looks like it hatched this year, not a
non-flying dependent "chick". I apologize for the confusion, I did not
mean or
even think the Black-bellied Plover could have nested here :)
Good to know this years hatch could be here already.
Still learning,
Stennie Meadours
San Leon
In a message dated 7/25/2013 3:19:52 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
jarvin@xxxxxxxx writes:
Hi Stennie,
It depends on what you mean by "chick" on the plovers. To me a "chick" is
a recently hatched bird that is still dependent on its parents. If you
mean
a more mature but still lacking adult plumage then yes, they could have
already migrated to the Texas coast. If you really mean the former,
however,
that's another thing entirely. Black-bellied Plover nests on the highish
Arctic tundra. A nesting on the Texas coast (which "chick" implies) would
be
unprecedented.
jca
John C. Arvin
Research Associate
Gulf Coast Bird Observatory
103 West Hwy 332
Lake Jackson, TX 77566
jarvin@xxxxxxxx
www.gcbo.org
Austin, Texas
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Subject: [texbirds] RFI: Black-bellied Plover chicks and one-winged White
Pelican near Texas City
All,
Paula Kennedy and I, as volunteers, have been conducting Oystercatcher
nest
monitoring surveys under GCBA's Dr. Sue Heath's oversight on a small spit
just north of the Texas City Flood Gates shown as Miller Point since
March.
Yesterday, we saw two Black-bellied Plover chicks, first year hatch,
standing and flying with a breeding plumaged adult. My question: Have
these
chicks and parent migrated to the UTC already, and is this unusual? I
have
loaned out "Birdlife of Houston, Galveston and the UTC", or I would check
there first.
Also, there was a lone non-breeding plumaged What Pelican swimming around
the area. Upon a closer look, Paula noticed that one wing was missing and
with a good scope view the missing wing appeared to be completely healed
with no sign of an open wound. Does anyone know anything about
this"one-winged" bird?
Finally, we observed and removed one fishing line with hook that was
responsible for the death of a Royal Tern and Laughing gull. There are
also
carcasses of a female Red-breasted Merganser, and Oystercatcher on this
spit.
What is needed to retrieve these carcasses for their skull and bill for
use in educational programs?
Stennie Meadours
San Leon
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