Albatrossity2
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| Quote (Lou FCD @ April 12 2010,12:57) | | Quote (Albatrossity2 @ April 12 2010,09:31) | | Quote (Lou FCD @ April 11 2010,21:02) | |
Nice shots, Lou!
Now I've got questions.
Where was the Sandhill Crane?
And why do you say that Common Grackles are an introduced species? William Bartram found and described them in your neck of the woods in the 1770's. |
Thanks, Alby. The Sandhill Crane was right off the Intracoastal Waterway around Hubert, NC. The maps and species descriptions I've seen (Audubon, Peterson's, and Cornell) all seem to indicate he shouldn't be this far North and East.
Hmm.. I was sure I'd just read that the three most common introduced species in the States were the Common Grackle, the European Starling, and the Rock Pigeon. I must be misremembering. I'm at a loss as to where I'd read that, too. I might ought to get checked for Alzheimer's (while a joke, it does run in my maternal family). |
Thanks, Lou
Sandhill cranes have a resident AND a migrant population in Florida, and some of the migrants stray to the coast of North Carolina and Outer Banks once in a while. It is a rare bird there, however. Did you report it to the local bird record committee?
Re the most common introduced species, I think that they would be House Sparrow (Passer domesticus), European Starling, and Rock Pigeon. Grackles are home-grown!
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Flesh of the sky, child of the sky, the mind
Has been obligated from the beginning
To create an ordered universe
As the only possible proof of its own inheritance.
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