Alabama (Statewide) RBA
June 5, 2008
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RBA
*Alabama
*Statewide
*INTERNET ONLY
*June 5, 2008
*ALST0806.05
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--- Species added since last report ---
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BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK
Wood Stork
Red Knot
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--- Species previously reported ---
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None
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--- Farther afield ---
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Roseate Tern, Ft. Pickens Road, Pensacola Beach, Florida
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Please note: Species CAPITALIZED above are on the Alabama Bird Records Committee
review list. Check the AOS website (address below - look in ABRC section) for
forms and suggestions on how to submit your sightings of these species to the
state database.
Written details, photos, recordings, etc. are highly desired for ABRC Review
List species and should be sent to:
Greg D. Jackson
2220 Baneberry Drive, Birmingham, AL 35244
g_d_jackson@bellsouth.net
Fax: 205/987-5167
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Alabama Ornithological Society website:
http://www.bham.net/aos/
Alabama RBA archives:
http://www.tvas.org/rba.htm
DeAL = DeLorme Alabama Atlas
BGtA = Birder’s Guide to Alabama (John F. Porter editor, University of Alabama
Press, 2001)
NABT = North Alabama Birding Trail (http://www.northalabamabirdingtrail.com/)
ACBT = Alabama Coastal Birding Trail
(http://www.alabamacoastalbirdingtrail.com/)
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Hotline: Alabama Ornithological Society Rare Bird Alert
Date: June 5, 2008
Phone number to leave messages about rare birds: 256/773-8560
Compiler: Steve W. McConnell
Email: swmavocet@aol.com
Alabama Rare Bird Report – Thursday, June 5, 2008.
At least six BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCKS were discovered 6/1 around Blakeley
Island pond 4 in Mobile. A follow-up visit 6/4 found 12 whistling-ducks in the
same pond! The location is best reached from US 90 at the last entrance on
the right before starting to drive up the Cochrane Bridge. Park outside the
gate and walk up the hill past the large white CO2 tank and continue east
between ponds 5S and 1. Pond 4 is the next on the right east of pond 1 (see
map at web site below). REMEMBER: this is an access-restricted area and an
annual, signed hold harmless permit is required to be in the possession of State
Docks security personnel prior to making your visit. A pre-visit notification
phone call to security personnel is also required. These rules have been
established in order to maintain access to this productive birding area and must
be followed to the letter. For full details and copies of the required permit
visit the AOS web site at: http://www.bham.net/aos/blakeley/. [DeAL
62-C4][BGtA p. 41][ACBT #32]
Up to 25 RED KNOTS were found 5/26 by walking to the west end of Dauphin
Island. From the end of the pavement on Bienville Blvd. the “Katrina Cut”
is a 1-2 miles beach walk. The current parking arrangements in that area are
unknown but earlier this spring a permit was required to avoid a possible
ticket. Check with the island police at their office on Chaumont just west of
the Circle K. [DeAL 64-B2][BGtA p. 6-12][ACBT #45]
Two WOOD STORKS were seen 5/24 feeding in a pond adjacent to US 43 just north of
MM116 between Linden and Calvary in Marengo County. [DeAL 42-F3]
Early on the morning of 6/4 a banded, alternate plumage ROSEATE TERN was
discovered with Black Terns at the “cut” down Ft. Pickens Road southwest of
Gulf Breeze, Florida. The sighting location is about a 2.0 mile walk from the
parking lot at the entrance to Ft. Pickens Road at Pensacola Beach. The road
may be biked for most of the way out to the “cut” but be prepared for
bombarding Least Terns. A return visit late in the afternoon the same day
failed to relocate the Roseate. A map link:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=ft+pickens+road,+gulf+breeze,+fl&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=54.796264,108.28125&ie=UTF8&ll=30.341769,-87.160034&spn=0.058963,0.105743&z=13
The following may be called for information:
Alabama Ornithological Society: Linda Reynolds (256/582-2970)
Alabama Wildlife Rehabilitation Center hotline: (205/621-3333)
Sighting information, and requests for regular email transcripts, can be
submitted by email to:
swmavocet@aol.com
Thank you.
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