Hi AJ,
I've got Paulson's book coming in the mail, but for right now I'll hit
you up for a few questions. You got plenty of free time now, right?
Birder thinking- what kind of ballpark percentage of Iowa odes can you
really ID out-of-hand in the field?
Are nets for odes different from nets for butterflies? Where do you guys
get gear from?
Is collecting done as much anymore? Or has it perhaps gone more towards
digital photography?
Using the Iowa Odes website, I've ID'd a flying ode from this morning as
a Wandering Glider (seemingly new for Kossuth). I'm not missing another
option that I could confuse it with am I? Behavioral note: are they
called Gliders because they hunt by continuously flying (as this one
was), and not "perch-and-pounce"?
About Paulson's perhaps missing SE bugs: in looking at range maps from
an online source, it looks like southeastern ones that barely hit or
miss Iowa almost all swing around and get into at least east Texas, so
they should be included in the book.
Thanks for the help,
Matt
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