My phone sent the previous email before I was ready. But I pretty much just needed to sign my name,
Deb Carstensen, Littleton, Arapahoe County Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: Eric DeFonso <[email protected]> > Date: October 22, 2014 at 2:08:02 AM MDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Fwd: [cobirds] Re: African Collared-Doves, Lafayette, Boulder County > Reply-To: [email protected] > > Hi all, > > I had the good fortune of birding in Puerto Rico last March, where, among > other things, I had my first exposure to African Collared-Dove. As Nathan > mentions, they are indeed vocally distinct from Eurasian Collared-Dove (and > at least with the population I observed, subtly but detectably distinct > visually). > > Most of my experience with the bird was in the area of La Parguera, a town in > the SW quarter of the island. I had my recording equipment with me on my > travels, but all the AFCDs I encountered were in town (not surprisingly) in > areas strewn with power lines which at the time were an unsolvable problem > for my recording efforts due to heavy electromagnetic interference. I have > since come up with makeshift solutions that would have allowed me to make a > decent recording even next to a power line, but oh well, I'm not there > anymore. > > At any rate, the other main point I wanted to make here was that before and > during my travels, I frequently used eBird to get info on where to go on the > island for certain specialties, native or otherwise. According to eBird > submissions made by visiting birders over the previous year or so, the vast > majority of the collared-doves observed in that area were Eurasian, but I > never once came across a collared-dove that I thought was a Eurasian. At > least vocally, I thought *all* of them, and there were quite a few in town, > were African. So I contend that there is widespread lack of awareness of the > difference and in fact, even the existence, of African Collared-Dove. And it > may well be that it's not just in Puerto Rico that birders are missing the > identification of this separate and distinct taxon, but perhaps even here in > North America, and as Ted diligently noted, perhaps even in our own Front > Range backyards! > > Good birding, > Eric > > >> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Nathan Pieplow <[email protected]> wrote: >> > -- > Eric DeFonso > Boulder, CO > > > > -- > Eric DeFonso > Boulder, CO > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Colorado Birds" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CAFjVA_aFsL8dzFTGDUq2m1qURyigcMqf%3DC%3DwK2y9-RmfvBRn2Q%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/7557C48F-86D2-4572-9834-2883BDE83AB5%40aol.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
