I've seen a Chukar three or four times along I-35 somewhere around Hinckley several years ago. I never bothered to report these because the birds were most definitely escapes from game farms. I don't know if anyone bothered to report the rash of Bobwhite reports in and around Duluth (from a mass breakout from a retriever training club) a couple of years ago, either, though I wish I had. It's important to keep track of introductions or birds escaped from captivity because once in a great while these introductions "take"--knowing the origin of a newly established population is important. And even when an accidental introduction doesn't take, it's instructive to keep track of these birds to ultimately understand why some introductions are more "successful" than others. But that's a lot of data to maintain for something that isn't part of our natural avifauna, so I can understand why it isn't normally done.
-- Laura Erickson For the love, understanding, and protection of birds www.lauraerickson.com There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of birds. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter. --Rachel Carson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20070827/e81fcc6b/attachment.html
