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FYI. Less Owls than usual in Alberta reported. I guess these had to come from somewhere? -------------- Forwarded Message: -------------- From: Barb Beck <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Owls you are seeing Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 19:21:51 +0000 Your messsage: [Owling] State of the state of MN Owl Irruption 1-20-0 was forwarded to our listserver, albertabirds. Just thought I would make a couple comments. How about having your volunteers age these things at least first year birds and older. Actually with a little help they can do much better. Hawks and Great Grays east to age - the crescents vs chevrons on the tails of the Hawk owls are a dead give away even for people who do not look at these birds much and the brown feathers with the light tips signal birds over a year old. Can often easily be seen with bions.(I band but am not getting into the hy ahy stuff - by one year old I mean it in real terms) There is interesting information to be gained by knowing the age of what is coming down. If anybody is unsure down there scan the tail or wings of the dead owls coming in and either of the guys below can age them instantly. For better information on ageing these guys contact Gord Court [email protected] or Ray Cromie. [email protected] Poor ray has had a tough year hearing about all the owls your way and not being able to band down there. The area around Ft. Vermilllion and High Level at the top of Alberta is usually a Hawk and GGOW hot spot. As you might guess when a group recently travelled up their they nothing in the usual owl hot spot. They had a 2000+ km trip with little to show for it except a bunch of hawk owls banded much farther south than the prime area. Edmonton area has more owls than usual. We have a reasonable number of GGOWs in this area and a Lot of Hawk owls down. Ray has banded I think a couple hundred of them this year. Had many boreals down for the CBC. While we usually find one or two each year our owlers found 8 this year. Another are the number of Pygmy Owls popping up out of their normal range this year. Cheers Hope some of our birds manage to find their way back north. . Barb Beck Edmonton, Alberta, Canada [email protected] --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_12096_1106656368_0 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <html><body> <DIV>FYI. Less Owls than usual in Alberta reported. I guess these had to come from somewhere?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Forwarded Message: -------------- <BR>From: Barb Beck <[email protected]> <BR>To: [email protected] <BR>Subject: Owls you are seeing <BR>Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 19:21:51 +0000 <BR><BR><BR>Your messsage: <BR><BR>[Owling] State of the state of MN Owl Irruption 1-20-0 <BR><BR>was forwarded to our listserver, albertabirds. Just thought I would make a <BR>couple comments. <BR><BR><BR>How about having your volunteers age these things at least first year <BR>birds and older. Actually with a little help they can do much better. <BR>Hawks and Great Grays east to age - the crescents vs chevrons on the <BR>tails of the Hawk owls are a dead give away even for people who do not <BR>look at these birds much and the brown feathers with the light tips <BR>signal birds over a year old. Can often easily be seen with bions.(I <BR>band but am not getting into the hy ahy stuff - by one year old I mean <BR>it in real terms) <BR><BR>There is interesting information to be gained by knowing the age of what <BR>is coming down. If anybody is unsure down there scan the tail or wings <BR>of the dead owls coming in and either of the guys below can age them <BR>instantly. <BR><BR>For better information on ageing these guys contact Gord Court <BR>[email protected] or Ray Cromie. [email protected] <BR>Poor ray has had a tough year hearing about all the owls your way and <BR>not being able to band down there. <BR><BR>The area around Ft. Vermilllion and High Level at the top of Alberta is <BR>usually a Hawk and GGOW hot spot. As you might guess when a group <BR>recently travelled up their they nothing in the usual owl hot spot. <BR>They had a 2000+ km trip with little to show for it except a bunch of <BR>hawk owls banded much farther south than the prime area. Edmonton area <BR>has more owls than usual. We have a reasonable number of GGOWs in this <BR>area and a Lot of Hawk owls down. Ray has banded I think a couple <BR>hundred of them this year. Had many boreals down for the CBC. While we <BR>usually find one or two each year our owlers found 8 this year. Another <BR>are the number of Pygmy Owls popping up out of their normal range this year. <BR><BR>Cheers <BR>Hope some of our birds manage to find their way back north. . <BR><BR>Barb Beck <BR>Edmonton, Alberta, Canada <BR>[email protected] </BLOCKQUOTE></body></html> --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_12096_1106656368_0--
