[wisb] Re: 30 WI Snowy Owls - update
- From: "Owen Boyle" <odboyle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Jesse Ellis" <calocitta8@xxxxxxxxx>, wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:03:03 -0600
Robin Squier just reported a SNOWY OWL at Lakeshore State Park in the
Milwaukee Harbor. If you're down there at the Art Museum watching the
KING EIDER (which was in the same location as of 9:10 this morning),
just walk a few hundred yards south to get to the entrance of Lakeshore
SP.
Owen Boyle
Milwaukee
On Tuesday, November 29, 2011 9:24 AM, "Jesse Ellis"
<calocitta8@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey all-
> If I'm counting correctly, Wisconsin is currently sitting at about 30
> reported Snowy Owls, spanning the state (literally). The Lake Michigan
> shore has the highest concentration, though the Mississippi Valley has a
> reasonable number of reports too, if you include a few across the river.
> The North country could use a few more reports, as could the I-90/94
> corridor between Janesville and Eau Claire (both make sense - there is
> much
> less open land in these areas). The southern tier of counties is also
> lacking any reports; is this because of fewer birders?
>
> US wide, this is the highest number of reports for any state. Michigan
> comes close with about 25. Other hot spots are the NE coast, where birds
> are concentrating along the atlantic beaches, and the Pacific NW, where
> there are flats and birders. I suspect there are more in the great plains
> states, and just no one to report them. There have already been 4
> reported
> in Kansas, and a handful total from Iowa, Missouri and central Illinois.
>
> http://g.co/maps/d6m4w (Be aware, the map has significant error
> intentionally incorporated into it.)
>
> I'll keep reporting as numbers increase (or don't!). Please keep
> reporting
> if you see previously reported individuals, or if you are unsure if a
> bird
> is new or not. This helps us determine if there are multiple individuals
> in
> an area, which can occur more often than you'd think. If you are
> uncomfortable reporting locations to the entire list, I'd love to field
> reports backchannel as necessary. I assure you I neither bait owls for
> photography, nor am I an unscrupulous taxidermist (that happened in NY, I
> believe?).
>
> Jesse Ellis,
> Madison
>
> --
> Jesse Ellis
> Post-doctoral Researcher
> Dept. of Zoology
> University of Wisconsin - Madison
> Madison, Dane Co, WI
>
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