[wisb] Re: Smith's Longspurs
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- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 18:23:30 +0000
Actual records for Smith's Longspurs go back to early 1900's in WI. A state
publication "Arbor and Bird Day Annual" often had annual bird lists for
districts around Wisconsin. We have a few years in our Museum library.
Spring Smiths were reported in 1908 at Baraboo, 4/26/1910 at Lake Geneva,
4/18/12 at Madison, and even a McCown's from winter on 1/1/12 at Golden Lake,
Oconomowoc District.
I suspect they are probably over looked during migration.
Tom Erdman, Green Bay
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Subject: [wisb] Re: Smith's Longspurs
Does Smith's actually pass through WI every year in small numbers?
I was under the impression that any records in WI were considered overshoots
due to strong south winds and that most years, they head west before ever
reaching WI.
--Chris W
Richland County
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Schaufenbuel <schaufenbuel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>To follow up on John's experience with calls it is worth walking long
>stretches of possible Smith's Longspur habitat anywhere in WI. Habitat
>consists usually of open patches of soil with foxtail upon which the
>bird seems to prefer feeding. In the old days the bird seem to
>frequent remnant wet prairie patches.
>
>Longspur page (calls):
>http://pjdeye.blogspot.com/2009/10/longspurs.html
>
>The point I want to add is listen for Chestnut-collared Longspur too.
>Here is a link to the call which sounds like a begging baby Red-winged
>Blackbird:
>
>http://birds.audubon.org/birds/chestnut-collared-longspur
>
>
>--
>Joe Schaufenbuel
>Stevens Point
>Portage Co., WI
>
>
>
>
>On 4/25/2014 9:29 AM, John Idzikowski wrote:
>> I have not followed every message in this thread so perhaps my comments are
>> redundant. We have had Smith's in April and mid-September in the past at the
>> Milwaukee Coast Guard Impoundment before it was destroyed by the last fill
>> and engineering project in 2009. On all occasions the distinctive dry rattle
>> call called our attention to its presence.
>>
>> http://www.xeno-canto.org/70077
>>
>> This call seems very diagnostic; I cannot confuse it with any other open
>> field species one may encounter in Wisconsin. The small flocks we had
>> frequented bare dirt with clumps of dried grasses. I hope that someone has
>> taken a digital of the current site that could be posted. Knowing the
>> distinctiveness of its habitat preferences and call allows one to plan for
>> better hunting and perhaps less of a need for flushing as grassy clumps and
>> furrows could be scoped once one suspects Smith's, but at the same time the
>> flocks we had in Milwaukee would frequently self-flush.
>>
>> We do not know the exact passage range of Smith's through Wisconsin, but it
>> seems to be more common as one goes west. Some range maps indicate that it
>> does not pass through Wisconsin at all.
>>
>> John Idzikowski,
>> Milwaukee
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>Joe Schaufenbuel
>Stevens Point
>Portage Co., WI
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