Brent they bit the dust and are flat gone here....they have had three
decades to turn around. It ain't gonna happen any time soon
On Sunday, September 11, 2016, Brent Ortego <brentortego@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Eastern Meadowlarks have been declining at the rate of 3% per year for the
last 45 years in Texas
Likely, there are many factors associated with this decline. Loss of
grasslands in quantity and size, and change is species of grasses are
typically the main issues discussed. Predation on small insects by fire
ants have been shown to reduce survival in prairie-chicken chicks.
Locally we might be seeing a negative response of meadowlarks to wet, tall
and dense grasslands created by above average rains
Brent Ortego
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On Sep 11, 2016, at 1:11 PM, Brush Freeman <brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx<javascript:;>> wrote:
the
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E. Meadowlarks were formerly abundant summer residents and breeders in
southern and central parts of Texas. They rapidly declined after thelate
70's early 80's during a time which coincided with spread of Bermudagrass,
mowing practice the arrival of fire and and Cattle Egrets and moredriving
intensive chemical treatments . Finding even one singing in Lavaca,
Bastrop, Travis, Fayette, Lee etc counties, in the breeding season, is
enough to make my day. When I was doing the Indianola BBS, there were
still a number of the off of 316 in Calhoun Co.
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Steve Gast <
dmarc-noreply-modpost@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <javascript:;>> wrote:
Five of us spent the day on Katy Prairie last Tuesday Sept 6th by
foracross most all of the protected areas seeking to count all shorebirds
placesinternational shorebird day. The water was too high most traditional
onfor many shorebirds but we had a few.
However, The most surprising aspect was a complete lack if any
Meadowlarks. This is an abundant breeder here and we get large numbers
thatevery Christmas count.
Does this mean that the winter birds here are entirely visitors, and
couldour breeders move completely away at this time of the year? What else
permissionexplain this?
Steve Gast
Houston TX
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