[texbirds-freelists] Re: [texbirds] "no hope" - where are Inca Doves?
- From: Larry Gorbet <lgorbet@xxxxxxx>
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 21:52:30 -0600
On Apr 3, 2012, at 4:43 PM, Jim Paton wrote:
Inca Dove has all but disappeared from my area of El Paso -
residential
neighborhoods in the Rio Grande floodplain on the west side of town
- where
formerly common. I have yet to see one in my yard in 2012. It has
always been
one of my first birds of the year before this year. I jog
extensively in
surrounding neighborhoods and the irrigation ditches I run on which
always held
Inca Doves now have none. I was wondering if others have seen a
precipitous
decline in their area? It may be tempting to blame E. C-Dove but I
think
something else is at work. I say this because E C-Dove numbers have
been steady
here for at least seven years now, long preceding the drop in Inca
numbers.
Drought and record cold snaps in Feb.
Jim
Paton, El Paso
FWIW, folks upriver in Albuquerque have also wondered about the drop
in Inca Dove numbers here over the last few years.
--
Larry Gorbet Albuquerque, New Mexico
University of New Mexico (Anthropology & Linguistics) &
Rio Grande Bird Research, Inc. (banding in the Rio Grande
Valley of Albuquerque NM since 1979)
TOS, NMOS
email: lgorbet@xxxxxxx
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