[TN-Bird] Re: Nashville- Piping Plover update

  • From: Ed Schneider <ed.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Scott Somershoe <scott.somershoe@xxxxxx>, tn bird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:34:54 -0500

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
> 
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