[texbirds] Re: Tx. wide breeder (addendum)
- From: Linda Price <lprice@xxxxxxx>
- To: brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:17:45 -0500
If the list has been updated on this thread I haven't see it.
What about Greater Roadrunner? They breed east to the Lousiana line and north
to at least I20. I am not sure about the most northern counties such as Bowie,
Lamar, Red River.
eBird shows June-July records in all but Bowie, Cass, Red River and Morris.
Ebird does show June-July records for Oklahoma and Arkansas north and east of
these counties. I suspect the reason that there are no records is that these
counties are only lightly birded. However, it does look like they are absent
from the upper Texas coastal counties.
I think the list so far contains
Turkey Vulture
Red-tailed Hawk
Killdeer
Mourning Dove
Barn Swallow
N. Mockingbird
N. Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
English House Sparrow
Linda Gail Price
Longview, TX
On Jul 16, 2012, at 3:24 PM, Brush Freeman wrote:
> Other suggestions have entered the discussion...Red-winged Blackbird,
> Great-tailed Grackle and Turkey Vulture.
>
> OK so here is the direct quote from BLOT 1974 (actually the MS was submitted
> in 1972) "The __________ is the only native Texas bird with written
> occurrence in every one of the state's 254 counties; the only other wild bird
> which is equally ubiquitous is the imported English House Sparrow.."
>
> As mentioned earlier, this is a 40 year old account and things may well
> have changed and in fact likely have, but thinking back to that time, the
> question is what was the species the author(s) were referring to?
>
> --
> Brush Freeman
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