[TN-Bird] Re: RFI: Bicknell's Record from 1945
- From: "Rick Knight" <RKnight@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Tennessee Birds" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:02:10 -0400
Dean et al.
This specimen is at LSU, but has been re-identified as the western
sub-species of the Veery. There are no valid reports of Bicknell's
Thrush in Tennessee & it is a rather unlikely possibility.
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Rick Knight
Johnson City, TN
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-----Original Message-----
From: K Dean EDWARDS <kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tennessee Birds <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, April 17, 2006 12:10 PM
Subject: [TN-Bird] RFI: Bicknell's Record from 1945
>
>I've been meaning to put out a request for info on this report of
>Bicknell's Thrush from Nashville in 1945 from The Migrant. Dan Mooney
>just sent me an email about it so that kinda poked the fire enough.
>
>The article from The Migrant is included in Dan's email below.
>
>Does anyone know more about this report or know where this specimen
>might be now?
>
>Note that Bicknell's Thrush is NOT currently on the Official State
>Checklist.
>
>Dean Edwards
>Knoxville, TN
>
>
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 18:04:29 -0400
>From: Dan and Laurie Mooney <birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: K Dean EDWARDS <kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Bicknell's Record from 1945
>
>Did you know about this. I was just browsing the Migrant CD and
>stumbled on the article! From Vol 16 No 2 June, 1945
>
>
>BICKNELL' S ADDED TO TENNESSEE LIST' :
>
>On the morning
>of May 5, 1945, while taking the circuit of Bluebird nest boxes, I
picked
>up a dead Thrush of the Gray-cheeked species on the roadside at the
extreme
>east edge of Percy Warner Park, Nashville. The bird had apparently
collided
>with a passing automobile but was in perfect condition. As Gray-cheeked
>Thrushes are migratory in Tennessee, are never common, are difficult to
>identify in the field, and sub-species are indistinguishable in the
field, I
>presented the bird to A. F. Ganier to be made into a study skin. The
wing
>measurement of 93.2 mm. (female) proved it to be a Bicknell's Thrush
>(Hylocichla minima bicknelli Ridgway), the smaller form of the
Graychecked.
>This identification is chiefly based on the statement of Alexander
>Wetmore in Notes on the Brds of North Carolina (1941, Proceedings of
the
>U. S. Nat. Museum, 90:5812), where, under the heading of Bicknell's
Thrush,
>he states: "A male was collected near Southport [N. C.] May 12. In this
>specimen the wing measures 95.1 mm., so that it is clearly
representative of
>the smaller form." In his Notes on the Birds of Kentudcy (1940, Proc.
U. S.
>Nat. Museum, 88:552), Wetmore gives four wing measurements for the
larger
>form, Hylocichla minima minima, the.Gray-cheeked Thrush, as 98.5, 99.8,
>102. 5, and 102.9 mm.
>
>Among the Gray-cheeked Thrushes trapped at my home banding station, I
>have measured 12 since 1939. Of these, one banded in 1940 is referable
to
>the Bicknell's Thrush on the basis of its small size, the wing having
measured
>91 mm.
>
>The Warner Park specimen, when compared with skins of the Gray-cheeked
>in the collection of Mr. Ganier, showed a difference in size that is
>very apparent.
>Further, the Bicknell's specimen is more brownish above and more buffy
>below, thus conforming to the description given by Forbush in his
"Birds of
>Massachusetts". My banded individual of Sept. 15, 1940, constitutes the
first
>record of Bicknell's Thrush for Tennessee, now substantiated by the
specimen
>of May 5, 1945.
>
>-AMELIA R. LASKEY, Nashville, Tenn.
>
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