[texbirds] Re: Common Crane at Muleshoe NWR
- From: Clay Taylor <Clay.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "fattonybirds@xxxxxxxxx" <fattonybirds@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 19:32:19 -0500
Hi All -
Ok, so the Simons and I are on the way to Bosque del Apache in NM for the bird
festival, but we are already plotting our route to Muleshoe on Monday.
As for the Common Crane, my only NA one was along the Platte River in Kearney,
Nebraska, in company with 200k Sandhill Cranes. The bird was eventually
nicknamed "Waldo" because picking a single Common Crane out of a flock of
10,000 to 20,000 in a cornfield was, well, you get it......
Point is, that sighting and subsequent Common Crane sightings there in the
following years were accepted as wild - the bird did not have any zoo or game
farm bands, and it was associating with the Sandhill subspecies that flies from
Nebraska to breeding grounds in Siberia.
Hope it stays!!!!
Clay Taylor
Calallen (Corpus Christi) TX
Clay.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> On Nov 18, 2014, at 3:37 PM, Anthony Hewetson <fattonybirds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Greetings All:
> I just received word from Justin Bosler that he has discovered a Common
> Crane at Muleshoe NWR (Bailey County). The bird is currently at the
> eastern end of Goose Lake and is associated with a largish flock of
> Sandhill Cranes. Justin is off to grab his digital camera in hopes that he
> can digiscope a picture.
>
> The only Common Crane I have ever seen was a bird in the Pacific Northwest
> that was, I believe, deemed to be of unknown provenance and I don't know
> what is thought of the birds seen in the plains states during the last
> decade or so. The bird may well be 'uncountable' but Justin wanted me to
> put the word out.
>
> Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
>
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