[texbirds] Re: Migrating Couch's Kingbirds
- From: Brush Freeman <brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: John Arvin <jarvin@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 11:43:49 -0500
In Bastrop and eastern Travis Co.s we have had both every month of the year
of the over the past decade or so. In Port O'Connor Couch's are present
year around but they get quieter in winter and are harder to detect...Don't
get many Kiskadees there but they are regular. Both are present on the
Guadalupe Delta year around.
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On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 10:41 AM, John Arvin <jarvin@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Martin et al.,
> Couch's Kingbirds are partial migrants (as are Great Kiskadees). Some
> seasons fair numbers remain to winter and some seasons their withdrawal is
> virtually complete. They gather in pre migratory staging groups that can be
> quite large (110 at Anzalduas Park associated with a heavy fruiting of
> Anacua along with about 90 Great Kiskadees at the same place. Great
> Kiskadees are regularly observed migrating at the "River of Raptors" site
> in Veracruz. In the Valley the reduction in kiskadee numbers is hardly
> noticeable but at my familie's ranch in northern Jim Wells County they are
> strictly summer residents. Likewise with the kingbirds. I was just there
> briefly this week and the kiskadee pull-out had already taken place but
> there were still a few Couch's Kingbirds around various tanks.
> John C. Arvin
> Research Associate
> Gulf Coast Bird Observatory
> 103 West Hwy 332
> Lake Jackson, TX 77566
> jarvin@xxxxxxxx
> www.gcbo.org
>
> Austin, Texas
>
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> From: "Martin Reid" <upupa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 7:46 PM
> To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [texbirds] Migrating Couch's Kingbirds
>
> Dear All,
> While showing a couple of visiting birding friends from England around
> Mitchell Lake Audubon Center on the south side of San Antonio this
> afternoon, we saw a few groups of up to a dozen Scissor-tailed Flycatchers
> on the wires at various points. Nice enough, but the last group we saw -
> six or seven birds along the road next to the Police Academy - were
> accompanied by fifteen Couch's Kingbirds. This is the first time I've seen
> more than 3 birds in a group (other than feeding youngsters), and the first
> time I have witnessed migration for this species. Does anyone else have
> experience of this? FYI The TOS Handbook talks about them withdrawing from
> the northern parts of their range in the winter; I saw two at their
> traditional breeding site by the Botanical Gardens on Monday.
> Also, the Black-throated Gray Warbler was still at Denman Park in NW San
> Antonio yesterday morning, along with a Pine Warbler, a few Orange-crowned
> Warblers, and 10+ Nashvilles. We were on limited time, and did not cover
> the entire park.
>
> Finally from yesterday afternoon I caught the tail end of some raptor
> migration from our apartment complex at Fredericksburg Road and Wurzbach in
> San Antonio:
> TUVU - 222; excluding obvious non-moving birds
> BLVU - 13; ditto
> SWHA - 43 (minimum)
> BWHA - 6
> COHA - 4
>
> Martin
>
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