[cayugabirds-l] Monday Night Seminar--Bret Whitney

[Matthew Medler]

Hi All,

I wanted to let people know that the next Monday Night Seminar at the Lab of 
Ornithology, on Monday, March 1st, should be a great one.  Renowned Neotropical 
ornithologist and tour leader Bret Whitney will be presenting the following 
talk:

"Brazil: New birds in old places"

The vast Amazon basin harbors the highest diversity of birds on
Earth, and it appears that the age of discovery is far from over! 
Learn how ornithologist and tour guide Bret Whitney combines his
knowledge of bird sounds and the lay of the land with NASA technology
to sleuth out ancient avian hideaways in Amazonian Brazil and
Peru.

Bret has discovered and described several new bird species during his career, 
and is a highly skilled sound recordist and videographer.  This talk promises 
to be one of the highlights of the spring seminar series.

Hope to see you there!
Matt Medler
Ithaca


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[cayugabirds-l] yes, it was a shrew

[CFSchmitt]

Right, Kevin.   I used "mouse" in a sloppy, generic way, since I didn't 
know if a vole would be out in the snow, or a shrew, or what.   It was dark 
gray, and yes, checking a picture on Wikipedia, it definitely was a Blarina.   
Now I've learned something new.
   Cute story of little Jay!  
Carol S. 

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RE: [cayugabirds-l] crow catches mouse!

[Kevin J. McGowan]

Very cool observation!

Most likely that was a shrew not a mouse.  Blarina brevicauda, the short-tailed 
shrew, largest shrew in New York, is the most likely creature to make tunnels 
under the snow to your bird feeder, and is also the most likely small mammal to 
be caught and killed by crows.  I've probably seen 50 or more Blarina caught by 
crows to any other mammal species.

This brings up one of my fondest memories of my son's childhood; I'm sure he's 
been embarrassed enough already, but I haven't mentioned it to the list for a 
decade.  I learned small mammals in college by their scientific names.  There 
still is not an "official" list of standardized common names for much of 
anything except birds.  So in Mammalogy, we learned only scientific names, and 
that's how I think of them.  That large, common, silvery-gray shrew snuffling 
around just under the grass (or snow) in your yard is, and always will be to 
me, Blarina brevicauda.

So, when my little son was sitting on my lap looking out at the snow and the 
bird feeders, he asked what the raised lines were in the snow below them.  I 
said that they were the tunnels of Blarina, a shrew, that were coming to eat 
the birdseed on the ground.  What he heard and internalized in his small child 
mind was "blah-RHINO."  So he imagined little tiny rhinoceroses running around 
in tunnels under the snow.  That image still makes me smile.

Kevin


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Subject: [cayugabirds-l] crow catches mouse!

Just watched a Crow standing under our feeders in an odd, crouched position.  
Suddenly he jabbed into the snow, and brought up a mouse!  After a quick kill, 
he made a good bloody mess on the snow pecking at it, and has now flown off 
with it.
   Also, a large flock of Robins are at our Buckthorn fruit.
Carol Schmitt

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[cayugabirds-l] crow catches mouse!

[CFSchmitt]

Just watched a Crow standing under our feeders in an odd, crouched 
position.   Suddenly he jabbed into the snow, and brought up a mouse!   After a 
quick kill, he made a good bloody mess on the snow pecking at it, and has now 
flown off with it.
Also, a large flock of Robins are at our Buckthorn fruit.
Carol Schmitt

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[cayugabirds-l] Short-eared Owls/harrier

[Michele Mannella]

We watched 3 short-eared owls and one norther harrier on Rock River 
Road last night around 5:30. One owl gave a sat for a long pose on a 
fence post - the light was perfect to see the color differences of 
the neck and face while he turned his head about, even with no 
binoculars!


Michele
Interlaken/Ovid
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[cayugabirds-l] female Coopers on Commons

[Anne Marie Sheridan]

I'm not adept at the Cooper/Sharpie distinction, but I believe I saw a female 
Coopers at 7:43 ish (am), perched in a snow covered tree immediately west of 
the pavilion outside Center Ithaca, on the Ithaca Commons. She was looking 
downish, toward the corner of the Bank of America building (East NE?) before 
she flew. There's a camera on that building, so perhaps somebody caught a 
still. I don't know the URL though.

Happy birding,
AM

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