Last year or maybe the year before there was a huge mortality event of woodcock in nyc during a snowstorm. Birds can exercise different strategies when migrating. Get there early and get best breeding territory while risking encountering death dealing weather.
The discussion the other day referred to local non-migratory birds already loosely on territory all winter and lengthening days elicit territorial singing. Also birds do call on speaking to each or her all throughout the year. This is different than singing. Thanks Sandy. Linda Orkin Ithaca, NY Sent from my iPad > On Feb 27, 2018, at 3:14 PM, Sandy Wold <sandra.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Last time I wrote on early territorial calling behavior, several people wrote > and "definitively" asserted that this breeding behavior is day > light-dependent. ...but if it is "definitively" dependent on the amount of > light in a day, then why would the woodcock be showing up a week or so > earlier?Could there be a gene that tells a woodcock to migrate when the fat > reserves are high enough? and if these woodcocks are from a coastal > location, as suggested by Pete, then it seems to me that the coastal > woodcocks are responding to temperature, or is this a random group of > woodcocks who have enough fat reserves and are willing to be hungry in order > to get the best breeding spot, so.... maybe it's worth it? And are they > eating if they show up in a snow storm? Very interesting to ponder! > --- > Climate Change Action: 10 or 30-day Ithaca Whole Foods Plant-Based (Vegan) > Challenge (prepare for Earth Day 2018). Education, support, potluck social > gatherings: www.facebook.com/groups/IthacaVeganChallenge/ > Instagram #veganplanet2020 > > Being non-vegan is taking a side. > It is taking the side of the oppressor. > It is not a neutral position. > It is a pro-actively violent position. > > Switch sides. Go vegan. > > Christopher Sebastian McJetters > > > --- > Sandy Wold, sustainability/nutrition lecturer and concerned citizen > for climate change, free speech, and democracy > B.S. Chemistry/Biochemistry, University of Florida > M.S. Science Education​, University of CA, Santa Cruz and SUNY Cortland > https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandy-wold-877114a7/ > > > -- > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- -- 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
