[cayugabirds-l] Syracuse RBA

RBA * New York * Syracuse * June 27, 2011 * NYSY 0627.11 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): June 20, 2010 - June 27, 2011 to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC)

[cayugabirds-l] S-b Dowitcher, Black-bellied Plovers - MNWR Sunday

Sunday highlights from Knox-Marsellus marsh included a Short-billed Dowitcher and influx of Lesser Yellowlegs, plus the continuing Dunlin. Two Black-bellied Plover were at Puddler's marsh. No peeps on either Saturday or Sunday. Saturday night on Van Dyne Spoor Rd found 5 American Bittern

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Why cowbirds foster their eggs to other birds

Marilyn only caught the tail end of the radio spot, and didn't get the names of any experts. But here's an article that discusses the origins of brood parasitism: http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/content/17/2/196.full.pdf For each of a number of avian lineages in which obligate interspecies