(Posted by Todd Starich <[email protected]> via moumn.org)
Two summers ago I found a dead black-billed cuckoo, apparent victim of hitting a window, on the north side of Moos Tower on the UMN East Bank. One day last summer I found another dead black-billed cuckoo, maybe within 15 ft of where I had found one the summer before. Today I came across a dead yellow-billed cuckoo about 30 yards away, by the adjacent PWB. This is not a prominent window-kill graveyard-- I bike through there every workday of the year, and it is rare to see dead birds other than peregrine leavings. So the proportion of cuckoo window kill compared to other birds seems exceptionally high. Something that cuckoos see that other birds in general don't?? ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
