[wisb] Re: Chat at Spring Green Preserve, and BBA question
- From: Chuck Heikkinen <deliachuck@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Bettie R. Harriman" <bettie@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:02:42 -0500
Hi All,
Just in case this question has bothered anyone else, here is Bettie
Harriman's response:
Chuck
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Bettie R. Harriman <bettie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Delia,
>
> As you may remember, for Atlas purposes Fledged young meant dependent young
> only. Watch the behavior for a while, a dependent young must still be
> getting its food from the parents (or in the case of the cowbird, the adult
> in whose nest it hatched).
>
> If the young bird can find its own worms or bugs, then its close enough to
> independent to not be counted as a fledgling. It's a judgement call many
> times.
>
> Bettie Harriman
> Director of first Wisconsin Atlas project
> Oshkosh
>
>
> At 07:02 PM 7/18/2011, Delia Unson & Charles Heikkinen wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> We braved the heat this afternoon and I walked a bit around the Spring
>> Green Preserve hoping to find a Mockingbird with no success. I did,
>> however, hear a Yellow-breasted Chat apparently calling to the west of
>> the last gate as one enters
>> the Preserve proper. I'm pretty sure I also heard a Horned Lark
>> calling - and that surprised me since the habitat is hardly
>> agricultural.
>>
>> The atlasing question I have is when to call a bird dependent on its
>> parents (fledgling) and when it's ok on its own. For example, it
>> would seem that a bird seemingly full-size but still begging from
>> parents would be a Fledgling. What about Robins still having breast
>> spotting? It's the dividing line between dependence and independent
>> that's tricky for me. Any thoughts?
>>
>> Chuck Heikkinen
>> Madison
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