[TN-Bird] Re: Henry County: Mississippi Kite over our yard
- From: Bill Pulliam <littlezz@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: knoxmartin2@xxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:29:12 -0400
Thanks, that puts the issue to bed. Even if the recent flurry of KY Lake
area birds are descended from the releases, 13 years since the last release
is long enough for the birds in that area to be considered wild for pretty
much all practical purposes, including ABA-style listing games ("Birdie
Bingo").
Bill Pulliam
Hohenwald TN
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 2:11 PM, <knoxmartin2@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> No, as I said in an earlier email, 2000 was the final year that kites were
> released in Henry County.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Pulliam <bb551@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: tn-bird@freelists org <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: knoxmartin2 <knoxmartin2@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Fri, Jun 14, 2013 10:47 am
> Subject: Re: [TN-Bird] Re: Henry County: Mississippi Kite over our yard
>
> Thanks for this information, it is very helpful. Your website mentions
> some birds released as recently as 2008:
>
> http://www.midsouthraptorcenter.com/pdf/kite.pdf
>
> These were not Henry County releases? They were the ones I was most
> concerned about being potential sources for recent sightings. Of course
> they would have migrated intercontinentally 5 times since then.
>
> Bill Pulliam
> Hohenwald TN
>
> On Jun 14, 2013, at 10:25 AM, knoxmartin2@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> While the Mississippi Kite reintroduction program started in the
> mid-1980's and continued for almost 25 years, the birds were released at
> Paris Landing State Park in the years 1990-1996, 1998, and finally in 2000.
> I seriously doubt that any of the original birds are still alive as the
> first groups would be from 17 to 23 years old, and the last group would be
> 13. All the birds were first year hatches. The studies I have found have a
> variety of ages, but considering the two migrations each year plus any
> number of other problems I doubt any of these original released kites are
> still living. I would hope that some of the recent sightings are their
> offspring, but that is only a guess (or hope!). With global warming a
> factor it would seem probable that the western range of the kite is
> expanding east, and the Mississippi River breeding areas could also be
> expanding north along the river and tributaries in west Tennessee. Over 350
> kites were banded and released during the 25 years of the program as well
> as almost 50 local kites that were either raised from chicks or rehabbed at
> the Memphis Zoo, and after 2002 at the Mid-South Raptor Center in
> Memphis.To date only a single band has been recovered and that band was
> actually found by a gentleman in West Memphis, AR, who was raking leaves
> and found the unattached band.
>
> Knox Martin
> Mid-South Raptor Center
> Memphis, Shelby County
>
>
>
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