[TN-Bird] Re: study those Willets!
- From: kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: Tennessee Birds <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:08:36 -0400 (EDT)
Good advice, Chris. I think Eastern Willet would be most likely following
a Gulf or Atlantic hurricane but they do migrate long distances (to South
America) and an overshoot to TN during spring migration is certainly
possible, especially when the weather is right. Worth noting that
Eastern Willets leave much (if not all) of the east coast in winter and
are replaced by Westerns. All of the winter birds I have had at Wilmington,
NC the last couple of years have been Westerns (with Easterns breeding
there in summer and both present during migration).
Also good to remember to carefully check all those "trash" Yellow-rumped
Warblers for "Audubon's" Warbler... another likely (re)split. Although
there are several records for TN, to the best of my knowledge, "Audubon's"
has never been photographed in TN. The call note is a good way to pick
up on the presence of an "Audubon's".
Dean Edwards
Knoxville, TN
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Chris Sloan wrote:
> Since we are in the midst of the typical late April Willet migration through
> Tennessee and Kentucky, I want to remind folks to study the Willets
> carefully. It's quite likely that Willet will be split into two species at
> some point in the near future - Eastern and Western. So far as I have been
> able to verify, all Willets in TN & KY have been Western Willets, but it is
> plausible that Eastern could occur as a vagrant even though no one to my
> knowledge has claimed one yet. So, observers should familiarize themselves
> with the differences between the two. The best resource for this at present
> is The Shorebird Guide by Crossley et al., which already treats them as
> separate species. I also have some side-by-side photos in one of
> my (onshore) Outer Banks photo galleries, since both (sub)species occur
> there.
> On another note, I'm heading out to California later today for a deepwater
> pelagic out of Santa Barbara tomorrow; Mike Todd is already out there.
> Hopefully, if the weather doesn't get us (and it might), Mike and I will
> come back with some good pics of some of the rarer west coast Pterodroma
> petrels (Cook's Petrels are already being seen in decent numbers by offshore
> research vessels).
>
> Chris Sloan
> Nashville, TN
> http://www.chrissloanphotography.com
>
>
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