[TN-Bird] study those Willets!
- From: Chris Sloan <chris.sloan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: TN-Bird Listserv <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:46:17 -0500
Since we are in the midst of the typical late April Willet migration through
Tennessee and Kentucky, I want to remind folks to study the Willets
carefully. It's quite likely that Willet will be split into two species at
some point in the near future - Eastern and Western. So far as I have been
able to verify, all Willets in TN & KY have been Western Willets, but it is
plausible that Eastern could occur as a vagrant even though no one to my
knowledge has claimed one yet. So, observers should familiarize themselves
with the differences between the two. The best resource for this at present
is The Shorebird Guide by Crossley et al., which already treats them as
separate species. I also have some side-by-side photos in one of
my (onshore) Outer Banks photo galleries, since both (sub)species occur
there.
On another note, I'm heading out to California later today for a deepwater
pelagic out of Santa Barbara tomorrow; Mike Todd is already out there.
Hopefully, if the weather doesn't get us (and it might), Mike and I will
come back with some good pics of some of the rarer west coast Pterodroma
petrels (Cook's Petrels are already being seen in decent numbers by offshore
research vessels).
Chris Sloan
Nashville, TN
http://www.chrissloanphotography.com
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