When riding my bicycle home from work on Monday I noticed a Yellow-billed Cuckoo flattened in 4th street under the skyway between Hanson Hall and The Carlson school bldg on the West Bank.
Distinctive rufous wing feathers caught my eye. When I stopped yellow lower mandible clearly visible. Mark Dudek Johnson On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Tanya Beyer <[email protected]> wrote: > No one I think has mentioned that hawks--a merlin that I know of, at > least--sometimes seem to use windows as a way of getting bird prey, driving > them in for a collision. I had heard of this from a friend, than last fall > experienced what sounded like an explosion just after I had shut off > propane outside our summer home. Noticing a merlin on the railing and > thinking it a coincidence at first, I checked everything I could think of > to check for some kind of gas explosion, at length finding a ruffed > grouse, still alive but in shock, on the ground underneath our outdoor > propane fridge. On the window alongside the fridge some ruffed grouse > feathers were clinging; the grouse was still alive but in heavy shock. I > suppose if this were the case here the cuckoos would be carried off as prey > and never seen... > > *Tanya Beyer* > > http://www.epiphaniesafield.com/home-page.html > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Randy Frederickson < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > My interpretation of that data is that being cuckoos are prone to > > understory and dense vegetation flight, they are also more prone to > > window collisions. I think this would account for both data sets, and > > the peregrines find them after the window strikes?? > > Has anyone ever seen a falcon chasing a cuckoo? I have not, nor have > > I ever seen them chasing anything smaller than a gull or > > pigeon....oops and lots of shorebirds. > > > > > > Randy Frederickson > > > > > On Jun 10, 2016, at 6:59 PM, linda whyte <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Interesting --just this week, I learned that 3 cuckoos, 1 > yellow-billed, > > 2 > > > black-billed-- or the other way around, I don't recall--were brought in > > for > > > treatment of serious, identical, neck wounds that were probably caused > by > > > peregrines. They were found in downtown St. Paul, close to a peregrine > > nest > > > area. > > > Linda Whyte > > >> On Jun 10, 2016 3:29 PM, "JULIAN SELLERS" <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > >> > > >> Perhaps 20 to 30 years ago, one of the leaders of the Twin Cities > raptor > > >> community (Bud Tordoff, I believe) presented a program about Peregrine > > >> Falcons to a downtown St. Paul firm where my wife was employed. He > > stated > > >> that the most common prey species identified at the nest box on the > > Bremer > > >> Building was Yellow-billed Cuckoo. (Who would have guessed?) Maybe > the > > >> cuckoos you've found were also "peregrine leavings." > > >> Julian > > >> > > >>> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 09:35:10 -0600 > > >>> From: [email protected] > > >>> Subject: [mou-net] yellow-billed cuckoo window kill > > >>> To: [email protected] > > >>> > > >>> (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 > > >> > > >> ---- > > >> 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 > > > > ---- > > 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 > -- <http://www.thecedar.org> Mark Dudek Johnson Director of Events Cedar Cultural Center 416 Cedar Ave South Minneapolis MN 55454 U.S.A. cell: 612-226-2307 fax: 612-338-1687 ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
