ID-FRONTIERS for October 7-13, 2001

Messages are displayed in the order they were received.  Subject  From  Date   Time   Lesser Black-backed Gulls - Florida   Noel Wamer    Sun, 7 Oct 2001   1:36pm   BROU Taxonomic Sub-committee Status Report   Phil Davis    Tue, 9 Oct 2001   1:07am   Don't forget   Michel Bertrand    Tue, 9 Oct 2001   8:13am   RFI: Gadwall bare parts   Martin Reid    Tue, 9 Oct 2001   7:58pm   Mystery jaeger   Joseph Morlan    Wed, 10 Oct 2001   1:03pm

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Subject: Lesser Black-backed Gulls - Florida
From: Noel Wamer <nwamer(AT)MEDIAONE.NET>
Date: 7 Oct 2001 1:36pm

Hi,

One of the more interesting fall migration phenomena in northeastern
Florida is the passage migration of Lesser Black-backed Gulls in
late-September and October.  Numbers generally are highest in mid to late
October, and decrease through the remainder of the year.  One observer
reported 74 on 28 September!  Today I could find only 18, but one of these
had a mantle and wing color that appeared to my eye to be as dark as an
adjacent Great Black-backed Gull.  I have posted seven photographs of
various individuals seen today.  The dark-backed/winged bird can be seen in
pictures 3, 4, 6, 7.  Any comments will be appreciated.

http://www.badbirdz.com/lbbg100701.htm

Later...

Noel Wamer
Jacksonville, FL, US
The Virtual 'Hood: http://www.badbirdz.com/dripperCam.htm
Check the latest garden pix: http://www.badbirdz.com/garden04262001.htm
"Even in its most primitive form, naming is a kind of judgment."
                                                        (Walker Percy)


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Subject: BROU Taxonomic Sub-committee Status Report
From: Phil Davis <pdavis(AT)IX.NETCOM.COM>
Date: 9 Oct 2001 1:07am

All -

FYI. From the Surfbirds web site ... an interesting status report from the
British Ornithologists' Union Records Committee Taxonomic Sub-committee.

         http://www.surfbirds.com/mb/news/bou-011001.html

Interestingly, over half of the nine "species pairs" listed deal with
species found in Maryland, and all of the species except one
(Carrion/Hooded Crow)
have been found North America ... and even it's a possibility (at least it
was when Attu was still birdable).

Phil

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Phil Davis      Davidsonville, Maryland     USA
                 mailto:PDavis(AT)ix.netcom.com
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Subject: Don't forget
From: Michel Bertrand <bertrmi(AT)COLBA.NET>
Date: 9 Oct 2001 8:13am

Here is a reminder. Wednesday is the last day for sending
your answer to the QuébecOiseaux quiz.

See the mystery bird at :
http://www.quebecoiseaux.qc.ca/HTML/Defi.html
or in QuébecOiseaux, and send me your identification.

There were more details about the quiz in my previous
message sent on October 3rd. I have already received
more than 200 answers.

Good luck...

      MICHEL BERTRAND
      Sainte-Julie, Qc
      bertrmi(AT)colba.net

La poésie naît de relations non protégées
entre la subjectivité et l'objectivité.


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Subject: RFI: Gadwall bare parts
From: Martin Reid <upupa(AT)AIRMAIL.NET>
Date: 9 Oct 2001 7:58pm

Dear all,
I saw a juvenile Gadwall-type today that had an all-dark bill.  Does anyone
out there have experience of non-male Gadwalls that have all-dark
bills?  It appeared to be in full juvenile plumage (warm buffy tones to
lateral scaps and flank feathers); there was a male Gadwall nearby in a
mixed flock that was slightly larger, which appeared to be molting out of
eclipse, and still had the orange along the lower mandible.
Thanks in advance,
Martin

Martin Reid
Fort Worth, Texas
upupa(AT)airmail.net
http://www.martinreid.com  or  http://www.cyberramp.net/~upupa


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Subject: Mystery jaeger
From: Joseph Morlan <jmorlan(AT)CCSF.ORG>
Date: 10 Oct 2001 1:03pm

Id Frontiers,

You are invited to comment on a controversial jaeger photographed in
Alaska in late June.  See:

http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~jmorlan/oct01.htm

All opinions are welcome.

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Joseph Morlan, Pacifica, CA 94044: mailto:jmorlan(AT)ccsf.org
California Birding, mystery birds: http://fog.ccsf.org/~jmorlan/
California Bird Records Committee: http://www.wfo-cbrc.org/cbrc/