[Bristol-Birds] COLOR-MARKED PIPING PLOVER AT SOUTH HOLSTON LAKE, TN

From: "BBC Net" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Bristol Bird Club'" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 19:03:47 -0400

Piping Plover at Musick's Campground SH Lake, Sullivan Co., TN 2 September
2014.jpg

 
Photo by Wallace Coffey

Musick's Campground

South Holston Lake

Sullivan Co, TN

Tuesday, 2 September 2014

Photo:  5:01 p.m. (Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS5 point & shoot)

Wallace Coffey with Nancy McPeak

 

We found a color-marked Piping Plover along the gravel driveway leading out
to the

outer banks.  The flag color is believed to be  an Irish geen.  It is above
the

knee on the upper right tibia.  There appears to be an orange or red marker
on the

lower left leg, or tarsus, but that was not noticed in the field due to the
stress and rush

to get a useful photograph.  No US Fish & Wildlife Service bird band was
noticed but

conditions were very difficult.  The bird was being chased by two Killdeer.

 

The bird flew beyond our approach before a tripod and scope could be set up

and most of the identification was looking thru the front windshield.
Photos were

taken out the driver-side window while the car was parked in the road.  It
flew well

out of ranger before either of us could exit the car. 

 

This is a transient (accidental) species for the Northeast Tennessee
five-county area

with only one known record.  That was a bird seen by Brian Cross and Rick
Knight

below Boone Dam, 14-16 September 1988. 

 

A preliminary search for a banding project that this bird may have been
marked as

part of a study, suggests it was marked with the green flag by researchers
from 

Virginia Tech Department of Fish & Wildlife Conservation.

 

Va Tech has been involved in studies of this species at Oregon Inlet, NC and

Garrison Dam on the Missouri River.

 

A telephone inquiry has been made to a professor at Va Tech who has been

involved in these research projects and more information may be available
when

he is able to return a call.

 

Wallace Coffey

Bristol, TN

[Bristol-Birds] COLOR-MARKED PIPING PLOVER AT SOUTH HOLSTON LAKE, TN

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