[texbirds-freelists] [texbirds] "no hope" - where are Inca Doves?
- From: Jim Paton <jnpaton@xxxxxxx>
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 15:43:07 -0700
Inca Dove has all but disappeared from my area of El Paso - residential
neighborhoods in the Rio Grande floodplain on the west side of town - where
formerly common. I have yet to see one in my yard in 2012. It has always been
one of my first birds of the year before this year. I jog extensively in
surrounding neighborhoods and the irrigation ditches I run on which always held
Inca Doves now have none. I was wondering if others have seen a precipitous
decline in their area? It may be tempting to blame E. C-Dove but I think
something else is at work. I say this because E C-Dove numbers have been steady
here for at least seven years now, long preceding the drop in Inca numbers.
Drought and record cold snaps in Feb. a
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nd Dec 2011 may also be factors. Jim
Paton, El Paso
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