[wisb] FYI: Swainson's Warbler locations
- From: Mark Hodgson <mjhodgso@xxxxxxxx>
- To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:19:53 -0500
Hi, I'd like to offer you my web gleanings in preparation for
Mark's Solo Expedition to Find a Swainson's Warbler, 5/5-9/09.
I looked at ~360 web sites and clipped what I found interesting into a MS Word
document. It contains some general info, places to find it in the southern
states, and a description of where I found one in SC. Email me if you would
like me to forward it to you.
The two most interesting parts:
1. The global population for Swainson’s is estimated at 84,000 birds. Compare
Cerulean Warbler: 560,000. 2004
2. *WI
Wisconsin's First Swainson's Warbler. When Tom Schultz rediscovered a
Wisconsin specimen of the Swainson's Warbler in the University of Wisconsin
Zoological Museum in 1993, he added an important chapter to a story that began
17 years earlier. On May 9, 1976 Lester Barnes found a dead bird by his
Fitchburg home just south of Madison. He did not recognize the specimen, so
took it to his friend Frank Iwen, curator of birds at the University of
Wisconsin Zoological Museum. Because Iwen was out of town, the skin was
prepared and catalogued by an as- sistant. It was carefully labeled as a
Swainson's Warbler, and placed in a drawer alongside another Swainson's Warbler
skin from out-of-state. The record thereafter remained hidden in a museum
drawer .... The identification was made, but was never publicized. ... — Sam
Robbins, The Passenger Pigeon, Vol. 57, No. 3, 1995
images.library.wisc.edu/EcoNatRes/EFacs/PassPigeon/ppv57no03/reference/econatres.pp57n03.i0010.pdf
Mark Hodgson
Madison
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