Wesley wrote: <I guess that people view them as being not special enough to be mentioned on the listserv>
Maybe also from the difficulty of distinguishing them from American Crows, except by sound—but that is iffy in spring when female Am Crows are begging. Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail [email protected] http://www.marieread.com ***NEW*** Music of the Birds Vol 1 ebook for Apple iPad now available from iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/music-of-the-birds-v1/id529347014?mt=11 ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Wesley M Hochachka [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 10:20 AM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] fish crows on campus Hi Marc, Fish Crows are a year-round resident in Ithaca, and while in small numbers I guess that people view them as being not special enough to be mentioned on the listserv. Largely, they are reported from the lakeshore, but they do pop up in other places (last year, if I remember, there seemed to be a resident group around Triphammer Mall). I’ve mostly heard Fish Crows away from their typical haunts in the early fall, at least in my neighbourhood near Sapsucker Woods. To give you an idea of where the crows have been seen around Ithaca (including on campus) start with the following URL http://ebird.org/ebird/map/fiscro?neg=true&env.minX=-77&env.minY=40&env.maxX=-76&env.maxY=45&zh=true&gp=false&mr=on&bmo=8&emo=12&yr=2012-2012&byr=2012&eyr=2012 and zoom in on Ithaca (I tried tweaking the URL to zoom in further, but at least in quick attempts that didn’t seem to work). The URL is to a map of eBird sightings since August of this year. Wesley Hochachka -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
