[texbirds] Fw: Re: RFI: Black-bellied Plover chicks and one-winged Whi te Pelican ...

From: "Alan Wormington" <wormington@xxxxxxxx>
To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 23:12:50 GMT
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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From: Stenmead@xxxxxxx
To: jarvin@xxxxxxxx, texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, jmassey@xxxxxxxxxxx, 
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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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From: Stenmead@xxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday,  July 25, 2013 11:29 AM
To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,  jmassey@xxxxxxxxxxx, sheath@xxxxxxxx
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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