Thanks for posting, Scott- very cool info indeed! I've seen others successfully attachphotos to TN-Bird, so I'm going to try to share an image of the bird.... hope it works! Great birding, Ed SchneiderWhites CreekDavidson Co. > Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:17:07 -0500 > From: Scott.Somershoe@xxxxxx > To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [TN-Bird] Nashville- Piping Plover update > > It took a while for me to get around to making contact with the Piping Plover > researchers in order to find out details on the color banded Piping Plover > that spent the day on Old Hickory Lake on 20 Apr 2011. > > The banded bird was banded as a chick on June 18th, 2001 at Lake Diefenbaker, > Saskatchewan (yes, 2001!!). The bird lost a blue color band at some point. > We probably would have never got individual identification of the bird > without Ed Schneider's photos of the aluminum USGS band, which yielded 7 of > the 9 band numbers! Thanks Ed! > > One-third of all the Piping Plovers in world nest at Lake Diefenbaker. There > is extensive research and monitoring of Piping Plovers at this location. > > The researchers were very excited to get information on location for spring > stopover of Piping Plovers, especially a known individual bird! Little is > known about inland stopover of Piping Plovers in spring. They were also very > curious about having two birds clearly migrating north together as apparently > that is unexpected. > > Cheers, > Scott Somershoe > > State Ornithologist > Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency > P.O. Box 40747 > Nashville, TN 37204 > 615-781-6653 (o) > www.tnwatchablewildlife.org > www.pbase.com/shoeman > > > ======OTES TO SUBSCRIBER======= > > The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with > first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation. > You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds > you report were seen. The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should > appear in the first paragraph. > _____________________________________________________________ > To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: > tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > _____________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, send email to: > tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. > ______________________________________________________________ > TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society > Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) > endorse the views or opinions expressed > by the members of this discussion group. > > Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN > wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > ------------------------------ > Assistant Moderator Andy Jones > Cleveland, OH > ------------------------------- > Assistant Moderator Dave Worley > Rosedale, VA > -------------------------------- > Assistant Moderator Chris O'Bryan > Clarksville, TN > __________________________________________________________ > > Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society > web site at http://www.tnbirds.org > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > > ARCHIVES > TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ > > MAP RESOURCES > Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif > Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com > > _____________________________________________________________ > >
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