[wisb] Re: Speaking of Whooping Cranes
- From: Chris West <little_blue_birdie@xxxxxxx>
- To: "Peter A. Fissel" <pfissel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "[Wisb]" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:43:57 -0500
I tried to post this from my alternate email last night. Hasn't come through
yet....
Anywho, for the record: these birds are part of the Canada-TX flock and would
be fully countable on your ABA checklist, unlike the birds in our WI flock. I
believe this would also be the first record of countable Whooping Cranes in the
state since the 1800s.....Which means Steve's neighbor has quite the record
form to fill out?.... :D
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> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:29:25 -0500
> From: pfissel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [wisb] Speaking of Whooping Cranes
> To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> I just saw this very intriguing post on MOU-Net:
>
> Subject: Whooping Cranes
> From: Steve Weston <sweston2 AT COMCAST.NET>
> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:25:02 -0500
>
> On Monday evening at dusk my neighbor found 12 to 15 Whooping Cranes amoung
> the thousands of Sand Hill Cranes at Crex Meadows near Grantsburg
> Wisconsin. the cranes were flying in for the evening after presumedly
> feeding in the surrounding fields. The Whooping Cranes easily stood out
> amoung the smaller darker Sand Hill Cranes.
>
> No bands were seen on these birds. Checking with a person knowledgible on
> the movements of the Wisconsin flock of Whooping Cranes reveled that these
> birds could not be part of that group, but were members of the flock that
> migrates between Alberta, Canada and Texas, being seen much further east
> than in previous years.
>
> Staff at Crex Meadows indicated no other reports of these birds. I decided
> to pass on this information as the birds have probably passed out of the
> area and were in large flocks of cranes that are unlikely to be approached.-
>
> Steve Weston
> sweston2 AT comcast.net
>
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