May thru February is the capture season for falconers who hold a valid ODFW
license.
https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/displayDivisionRules.action?selectedDivision=2947
While sharing chase status here on a Linn Gyrfalcon a few years back, I was
privately lectured by some birders for being so public, as they said falconers
are remarkably efficient at capturing revealed Gyrfalcons for captivity. While
asking around, I was also told very few permits are actually requested/granted
per year, so in many years Gyrfalcons may be perfectly safe (from law abiding
citizens) inside the May-Feb take window.
It would be handy if someone knew if permits were in play each season so the
birding community could play-it-safer during May-Feb if required.
I dunno what the right answer is ☹
--tg
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Subject: [obol] Re: Lane County Gyrfalcon, Ross's Goose, Lewis's Woodpecker
Hendrik and Oregon Birders,
Of course you are correct about this. eBird suppresses sightings of Gyrfalcon,
Great Gray Owl, and Northern Hawk Owl, among other species, and treats them as
“Sensitive Species”. However, so far as I know, none of these 3 species is on
any federal (U.S. or Canada) Endangered or Threatened lists, or even on any
statewide lists, and the populations are not at risk. Therefore, in my opinion
as a retired biologist with extensive experience in dealing with endangered
species, there is nothing wrong with publicizing sightings of these 3 species
on e-mail groups. Rich, thank you very much for posting about your Gyrfalcon
sighting.
The only exception for Oregon, I would say, would be posting about
breeding-season sightings for Great Gray Owl, because it could jeopardize
breeding attempts. The other two species do not breed in Oregon or anywhere
near Oregon, so as far as I’m concerned, it is fine to post info about any
sightings of these species.
Wayne Weber
Delta, BC, Canada
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Subject: [obol] Re: Lane County Gyrfalcon, Ross's Goose, Lewis's Woodpecker
Gyrfalcon is treated as a sensitive species by eBird. Therefore, no details of
any sighting (and no photos) are made available to the public.
Hendrik
On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 9:21 PM Jenkins, Maurice
<Maurice.Jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Maurice.Jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Rich Hoyer's account of the same Gyrfalcon. He mentions photos in his ebird
account link, but I didn't find any.
Alan
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Subject: [obol] Lane County Gyrfalcon, Ross's Goose, Lewis's Woodpecker
Dear Birders,
Around mid-day today a bunch of good birds suddenly plopped down in front of me
and my visiting friends Marc Passmann and Patty Tersey from Tucson, who arrived
just this morning. We set out late morning with no real goal and found
ourselves wandering the back roads north of the Eugene airport. We were on
Washburn Rd west of Junction City when we saw a white goose in a huge flock of
Cackling Geese landing in a field just south of the (inaccessible) Junction
City sewage ponds. When we went to investigate the geese were right on High
Pass Rd, and the white goose was quite close. I added some photos to my eBird
list here: https://ebird.org/checklist/S97758434 I'd be interested to know what
others think about this bird, as a probable hybrid was in this area last year.
The forehead isn't as steep as in perfect Ross's Goose, and there seems to be a
hint of a black grin patch, but the bird was tiny (as small as or smaller than
the cacklers), wartiness is obvious on the base of the bill, and
the feather-bill interface seems normal for Ross's.
It was almost overwhelming when all the geese started taking off at once, but I
knew to look for a predator and before long spotted a juvenile GYRFALCON, which
gave an imrpessive chase but failed to connect with a goose. It eventually
perched on a power pole to the east of us, closer to Junction City. After a few
minutes it flew off to the southeast to attempt another goose, and disappeared.
We relocated it in tree on Pitney Ln., and then saw it fly to on the 10th power
pole south of High Pass Rd (about here: 44.215177,-123.230096). We stayed with
it for about 25 minutes, long enough for only Sally Hill to arrive and see it,
and it eventually flew off to the southwest at about 12:55 p.m. As far as I
know it wasn't relocated this afternoon. Photos on the same eBird list.
Our next stop was Rest Lawn Memorial Park, a cemetery on a hill on the east
side of Territorial Highway not far north of High Pass Rd., and from there we
spotted a LEWIS'S WOODPECKER flycatching from the tops of some distant oaks on
the butte to the east.
We also saw a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK on McFarland Rd. just south of Finley NWR
(Benton County), and it was nice to be so close to over 500 TUNDRA SWANS at
McFadden Marsh on the refuge.
Good Birding,
Rich
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