Is the below true or just a good story? Mark Mulhollam Minneapolis, Minnesota http://www.tc.umn.edu/~mulho005
-----Original Message----- From: National Birding Hotline Cooperative (Chat Line) [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of JIM TURNER Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 5:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Rd: Ornithologists I was told this anecdote while birding in Duluth, and cannot vouch for its truthfulness. In any case, my memory would mangle the details worse, and my apologies to anyone whose toes get stepped on. But here goes. It seems that a dark Ibis was seen byt birders in both Duluth and Superior, which made at least one pass between Wisconsin and Minnesota, in view by all the whole time. Competent birders disputed whether it was a Glossy or a White-faced, and finally agreed on the former, anbd submitted their documentation to both states. Minnesota's Ornithological Society disputed it, and on the basis of a single prior sighthing of a White-faced at the opposite corner of the state, concluded that it was the second state record of a White-faced, . Wisconsin, being further east, agreed that Glossy was more probable, and admitted it as a first state record. So the same individual bird, seen at the same time in two states, has now become a precedent for future acceptance of records of two different species in two different states. Jim Turner || Traverse City, Michigan || havivoca @ yahoo.com BirdChat Guidelines: http://www.ksu.edu/audubon/chatguidelines.html Archives: http://listserv.arizona.edu/archives/birdchat.html
