[va-richmond-general] Re: Powhatan Wildlife Management Area - 8/22/04

Al,

Yep, as your link indicates, Willow and Alder flyctachers are not reliably
distinguishable, and that is true even in the hand.  Thus the non-specific
label "Traill's" is used for most banding records of these species

Bob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Warfield" <warfield101@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 7:42 AM
Subject: [va-richmond-general] Re: Powhatan Wildlife Management Area -
8/22/04


> Bob,
>
> Nevermind, I answered my own question. Traill's is the old name for
> Willow/Alder Flycatchers. See the link below.
>
> http://www.ronausting.com/willowfl.htm
>
> Al Warfield
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob Reilly" <rjreilly@xxxxxxx>
> To: <va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 6:47 PM
> Subject: [va-richmond-general] Re: Powhatan Wildlife Management Area -
> 8/22/04
>
>
> Michael,
>
> Oops.  Change that Wilson's storm-petrel to a wild turkey and the tufted
> puffin to a tufted titmouse!  The lookup-column I used to convert our AOU
> alpha codes to a list of common names, generated for the email response,
> erroneously assigned Wilson's storm-petrel to our code for a wild turkey
and
> the tufted puffin to our tufted titmouse.  Hope nobody rushed right out
> there before reading this correction! Also believe it comes to 68 rather
> than 67 species. My apologies.
>
> Bob
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob Reilly" <rjreilly@xxxxxxx>
> To: <va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 6:31 PM
> Subject: [va-richmond-general] Re: Powhatan Wildlife Management Area -
> 8/22/04
>
>
> > Michael,
> >
> > As part of the nationwide Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship
> > Project run by the Institute for Bird Populations (Point Reyes, CA.),
Mary
> > Arginteanu, Larry Robinson, John Dillard and I along with several
> dedicated
> > volunteer assistants band out there regularly  from late May to early
> > August. For 2003 and 2004, the alphabetical list of the 67 species
either
> > banded, heard, or seen at the site (i.e. within 100 meters of any of our
> 15
> > nets which surround the middle of the three lakes) is as follows:
> >
> > Acadian Flycatcher
> > American Crow
> > American Goldfinch
> > American Redstart
> > Black-and-White Warbler
> > Belted Kingfisher
> > Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
> > Brown-headed Cowbird
> > Bicknell's Thrush
> > Blue Grosbeak
> > Blue Jay
> > Black Vulture
> > Brown Thrasher
> > Carolina Chickadee
> > Canada Goose
> > Carolina Wren
> > Canada Warbler
> > Cedar Waxwing
> > Chimney Swift
> > Common Yellowthroat
> > Downy Woodpecker
> > Eastern Kingbird
> > Eastern Towhee
> > Eastern Phoebe
> > Eastern Wood-Pewee
> > Field Sparrow
> > Great Blue Heron
> > Great Crested Flycatcher
> > Great Horned Owl
> > Gray Catbird
> > Green Heron
> > Hairy Woodpecker
> > Hooded Warbler
> > Indigo Bunting
> > Kentucky Warbler
> > Louisiana Waterthrush
> > Mallard
> > Magnolia Warbler
> > Mourning Dove
> > Northern Bobwhite
> > Northern Cardinal
> > Northern Mockingbird
> > Northern Parula
> > Orchard Oriole
> > Osprey
> > Ovenbird
> > Pine Warbler
> > Pileated Woodpecker
> > Prairie Warbler
> > Purple Martin
> > Red-bellied Woodpecker
> > Red-eyed Vireo
> > Ruby-throated Hummingbird
> > Scarlet Tanager
> > Summer Tanager
> > Swainson's Thrush
> > Traill's Flycatcher
> > Tufted Puffin
> > Turkey Vulture
> > White-breasted Nuthatch
> > White-eyed Vireo
> > Worm-eating Warbler
> > Wilson's Storm-Petrel
> > Wood Thrush
> > Yellow-breasted Chat
> > Yellow-billed Cuckoo
> > Yellow-shafted Flicker
> > Yellow-throated Vireo
> >
> > Bob Reilly
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Michael Shapiro" <sc.tanager@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "Richmond listserv" <VA-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 5:05 PM
> > Subject: [va-richmond-general] Powhatan Wildlife Management Area -
8/22/04
> >
> >
> > > A brief stop (about an hour/hour and a half) at the Powhatan WMA late
> this
> > morning/early this afternoon produced the following birds and
butterflies:
> > > BIRDS:
> > > N. Cardinal
> > > T. Titmouse
> > > W-b Nuthatch
> > > Yellow-eyed Vireo (very vocal. Immature, I think)
> > > HOODED WARBLER - one male, singing, and possibly a female, as well.
Got
> > some good looks at the male.
> > > C. Yellowthroat (female)
> > > Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2
> > > Mo. Doves
> > > R-e Vireo
> > > C. Chickadee
> > > Am. Crow
> > > Am. Goldfinches
> > > YELLOW-THROATED VIREO ('twas a red, white, and yellow day!) - saw and
> > singing. Might also have seen one feeding young - do the males feed the
> > young, as well?
> > > B-g Gnatcatcher
> > > T. Vultures
> > > also found several Wild Turkey feathers
> > >
> > > BUTTERFLIES: (almost as many species of butterflies as birds!!)
> > > Carolina Satyr - a lifer for me. They seemed to be all over
> > > Gemmed Satyr - another lifer. Only saw one.
> > > Red-spotted Purples - ubiquitous
> > > possible Hackberry
> > > Common Wood Nymph
> > > Alfalfa
> > > Pearl Crescent
> > > Red Admiral
> > > Meadow Fritillary
> > > Black Swallowtail
> > > Great Spangled Fritillary
> > > Cloudless Sulphur
> > >
> > > Anyone ever go to this place on a regular basis? I heard someone does
> > banding there.
> > >
> > > Michael Shapiro
> > > northside
> > > sc.tanager@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >
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