[wisb] Re: "Audubon's" Warbler- Crawford County

  • From: Ryan Brady <ryanbrady10@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <little_blue_birdie@xxxxxxx>, <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:25:29 -0700

Chris et al, yes, this subspecies deserves tracking, so go ahead and fill out 
the WSO Long Form for the Records Committee.  Thanks.

Ryan Brady
Washburn, Bayfield County, WI
http://www.pbase.com/rbrady



 
> From: little_blue_birdie@xxxxxxx
> To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [wisb] "Audubon's" Warbler- Crawford County
> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:37:13 -0600
> 
> Hey everyone, 
> I found a winter "Audubon's" Yellow-rumped Warbler in Crawford County today 
> while running my section of the Retreat CBC. 
> This is the western subspecies of Yellow-rumped Warbler. The International 
> Ornithological Congress (IOC) considers this to be a separate species from 
> "Myrtle's" Warbler (the eastern subspecies we always see here). The AOU has a 
> pending proposal to split the species as well (in which case the ABA would 
> also split it). 
> I don't know if the WSO keeps records of this subspecies or not, but it's 
> probably a good idea to keep track of them in case they are ever split. If 
> split, it's likely that the AOU would divide Yellow-rumped into three 
> species. Myrtle's Warbler (eastern), Audubon's Warbler (western), and 
> Goldman's Warbler (Mexico). Goldman's is by far my favorite. 
> 
> I had a total of 40 species on the Retreat CBC today including two adult 
> Golden Eagles. I'll post a summary of the count as soon as I have all the 
> results in and tallied. 
> 
> 
> 
> Happy Birding! --Chris W, Richland County 
> http://swallowtailedkite.blogspot.com/ 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/swallowtailphoto
> 
> "The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first 
> material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire 
> the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things 
> breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a 
> one can be again."
> 
> (From William Beebe's "The Bird: Its Form and Function," 1906)
> 
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