Howard, I've been birding that area pretty hard for about a dozen years, especially in Roberts County across the state line in South Dakota. I got my first Roberts County Black-billed Magpie last October at Sica Hollow State Park and I got another one just west of Big Stone Lake last March. I think they are on the move.
Mark Otnes Fargo ND ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Towle" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, August 31, 2015 10:52:35 AM Subject: [mou-net] Black-billed Magpie - Traverse Co On Tuesday, August 25, at about 11:00 AM, I observed a Black-billed Magpie in Wheaton, Traverse County. The bird was seen flying across Co Rd 27 on the eastern edge of town. Sorry for the lateness of this report, but I didn’t realize until talking to Doug Kieser yesterday that this sighting was somewhat out-of-range. There appears to be only one other report of Black-billed Magpie for Traverse Co from Oct 18-19, 1942. It would interesting to know if this was just a sporadic sighting or whether they might be establishing a colony here. Howard Towle Golden Valley, MN ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
