[mou-net] Golden Winged Warblers 'fled day before US tornadoes' April 2014

from BBC News. Days after arriving from Columbia to Appalachia TN, 5 GWWA's flew south to the Gulf and missed numerous tornadoes. They then returned to their nest sites. Also note an apparent 50% mortality of the 20 study birds in one year. This article is excerpted from the journal Current

[mou-net] Duluth birds

Common Eider, California Gull, Glaucous Gull and Golden-Crowned Sparrow all seen this morning in Duluth at previously reported locations. Sparrow was half block south 4402 Regent associating with White-Throated Sparrow. Found by listening for WTSP. Good birding, Malcolm Gold Kansas City

[mou-net] Golden-winged Warbler Clarification

I want to clarify an earlier post today regarding Golden-winged Warblers (GWWA) which contained a link to a brief, but very interesting, BBC piece on temporarynesting areaabandonment to avoid tornadic activity. Gordon Andersson mentioned an apparent 50% mortality [unrelated to the tornadoes]

Re: [mou-net] Golden-winged Warbler Clarification

And I'd like to add that the research was done out of the University of Minnesota, as part of the GWWA study that was presented at the recent paper session, and the Univ. Of Tennessee, though the lead author has moved onto UCB. Paul Paul Budde pbu...@earthlink.net div Original message

[mou-net] Common Eider

The Common Eider was seen today (Dec 22) on the harbor side of Canal Park in Duluth in the vicinity of 8th St and Minnesota Ave. A link to a photo on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lsirvio/15465227313/ Larry Sirvio Join or Leave mou-net: