[TN-Bird] Re: RFI: Chattanooga 'Great White' Heron?
- From: "Richard Knight" <rknight8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "kde@xxxxxxx" <kde@xxxxxxx>, "Tennessee Birds" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 18:06:02 -0400
Dean,
Add the following records of Great White Heron:
1). 20 Aug 2004 on the South Holston River
and
2). 7 June - mid Jul 2008 on the Watauga River
(photo published in "The Birds of NE Tenn, 2nd ed.").
This latter bird was even earlier than the current ones near Chattanooga.
Clearly something wonky going on with this form.
And the first record at S. Holston L. was with Brian Cross, not Rack.
Rick Knight
Johnson City, TN
> [Original Message]
> From: <kde@xxxxxxx>
> To: Tennessee Birds <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 7/2/2009 4:08:25 PM
> Subject: [TN-Bird] Re: RFI: Chattanooga 'Great White' Heron?
>
>
> A bit more here...
>
> I have gotten confirmation from 2 birders that the 'Great White'
> Heron in Hixson, TN, reported by Jimmy Wilkerson in a TN-Birds post
> on 22 June 2009 is for sure a DIFFERENT bird than the one being
> seen at Chickamauga Dam. Apparently both birds have been seen at
> the same time by parties stationed at each location (that is one
> group of birders at the dam and another group in Hixson at the same
> time).
>
> This is quite remarkable and I'm a bit surprised more isn't being
> posted about these birds. To my knowledge the only previous reports
> of this subspecies (and potential species split) from Tennessee
> are:
>
> * 15-16 Oct 1990, South Holston Lake, Sullivan Co
> 29 Aug - 12 Sept 1991, South Holston Lake, Sullivan Co
> [25 Aug 1994, South Holston Lake, Virginia side only?]
> 7-29 Aug 2002, South Holston Lake, Sullivan Co
>
> * 21 Sept - 11 Nov 2002, DeKalb and Putnam Co
>
> * 5 Dec 2006 - 11 Jan 2007, Blount Co
>
> Those marked with * were submitted to and accepted by the TBRC.
> Note that all of these are during times of the year that could be
> considered post-breeding dispersal whereas the 2 birds in Hamilton
> County now are much earlier.
>
> Dick Schier sent me some excellent photos of the Chickamauga bird
> showing a nice yellow iris (so not a pure albino) and no signs of
> dark feathers suggesting a leucistic bird. It doesn't appear to
> be in breeding plumage so perhaps a young, non-breeding-age bird.
> I haven't seen photos of the Hixson bird.
>
> Great White Herons seem to be being reported north of their normal
> range in the FL Keys more frequently and it seems almost any issue
> of North American Birds I pick up now has a report from some region.
> When Rick Knight, Howard Langridge and Rack Cross wrote-up the first
> one for TN in 1992 (MIG 63:1), they included a table of previous
> inland records from the SE US... a total of 13. Now TN alone has 7!
>
>
> Dean Edwards
> Knoxville, TN
>
>
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