[cayugabirds-l] Bird nest decorations
Thanks for the eye-opener this AM Joe and Diana! I thought you were announcing a flamingo sighting in the Basin with your post title! (8-) OK, I'm awake now, so here's a contribution: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/01/bird-nest-messages/ is a quick overview of a recently published Science article on how black kites decorate nests with white plastic to show dominance. __ Chris Pelkie Research Analyst Bioacoustics Research Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca, NY 14850 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: [cayugabirds-l] Bird nest decorations
Chris et al, In India, at least those Black Kites (Milvus migrans govinda) that nested near my house or my office in Mumbai, preferred golden materials, especially those of fire cracker wrappers. And crows (Corvus splendens) preferred metal coat (ok clothes) hangers to sticks. I guess where these guys studied the Black Kites did not have exotic colors available. I wonder what would happen if they were given different choice of colors would they show a gradient in their fitness. Meena Meena Haribal Boyce Thompson Institute Ithaca NY 14850 Phone 607-254-1258 http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ http://haribal.org/ http://haribal.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/wildwest+trip+August+2007+.pdfhttp://www.geocities.com/asiootusloe/http:/www.geocities.com/asiootusloe/mothsofithaca.htmlhttp:/haribal.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/wildwest+trip+August+2007+.pdf From: bounce-7677069-3493...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-7677069-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Chris Pelkie Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 7:43 AM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Bird nest decorations Thanks for the eye-opener this AM Joe and Diana! I thought you were announcing a flamingo sighting in the Basin with your post title! (8-) OK, I'm awake now, so here's a contribution: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/01/bird-nest-messages/ is a quick overview of a recently published Science article on how black kites decorate nests with white plastic to show dominance. __ Chris Pelkie Research Analyst Bioacoustics Research Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca, NY 14850 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] swans, pheasants, etc
Thanks to Bob McGuire's email earlier this week, yesterday afternoon we could get the 4 pheasants on Rafferty/Dixon Rd., pecking around under the cow's feet like barnyard chickens. Two Mute Swans were close to shore just before the Lake Rd. bluffs, courting a bit by nodding their heads and making the classic heart-shaped silhouette as they faced each other. Lovely, really. No luck with the Eared Grebe, but the Horned, plus many Red-breasted Mergs, and all the others, had moved down south of Long Point and were just offshore by our cottage. Carol Schmitt -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Purple Finch and Field Sparrow at Lab main feeders
Taking a quick break and looking at the Lab feeder garden, I saw a female PURPLE FINCH among the House Finches and Common Redpolls, my first for the year. Also present was the continuing FIELD SPARROW, pointed out to me by Caroline Manring. Kevin -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Thursday birding - Onondaga Seneca Counties
A long cold day of birding with Jim Pawlicki had plenty of highlights. Shackham Rd at the Onondaga Cortland County border: 18+ Evening Grosbeak (including an adult male) 3 Redpoll 1+ Red-breasted Nuthatch Onondaga Lake's Inner Harbor in Syracuse had few gulls. Harlequin Duck continues at the Onondaga Lake outlet where Longbranch Rd crosses. Including birds while traveling on Rte 690, we saw 8 Bald Eagles at the Onondaga Lake spots. 3 Rough-legs (all light morph), 2 Red-tails, and 3 Bald Eagles were seen from the thruway passing through Montezuma. Virtually no gulls at Van Cleef Lake in Seneca Falls. Next stop was Sampson State Park in Seneca County (at the moment primarily a passerine hotspot, rather than waterfowl, though it has awesome views of Seneca Lake): 3 Horned Grebe a few Goldeneye and Common Merg 10 WT Sparrow 4 Mockingbird 1 Carolina Wren 3 Bluebird 110+ Robin 14 Cedar Waxwing 1 GC Kinglet 1 RB Nuthatch many many BC Chickadee a few Tree Sparrow 5-10 Flicker 2 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker Sampson SP has a lot of passerine habitat and most is accessible (we only scratched the surface in two hours). The last 90 minutes of the day saw an impressive collection of waterfowl on the Geneva waterfront: ~2000-3000 Canada Geese 1 Snow Goose (blue phase) 1 Blue x Canada 1+ Cackling Mallards, Blacks, Gadwall, a few Pintail many Common Merg a few Hooded Merg ~50 Common Goldeneye 3 Ruddy Duck big increase in Coot, Redhead, and Scaup, esp. at NW corner of waterfront adult and 1st-cycle Glaucous Gull 2 1st-cycle Iceland (light and dark extremes) adult Lesser BB Gull 1 adult Bald Eagle 1 Mockingbird 1 Song Sparrow Too many geese to be sure we checked them all for rarities. Ditto on Aythya ducks as we had lost most of our light when we discovered how many were along the northwest shoreline. David Wheeler Jim Pawlicki -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: [cayugabirds-l] Black Kite nest decorations
In Mumbai, right next to my family's apartment, Black kites were using mostly-white Tee shirts as well as blue plastic and other found clothing-scraps. I particularly noticed the Tee shirts when we visited in 2008, but I couldn't read the T-shirt logos to see what brand they preferred(!). -Nari Mistry At 8:37 AM -0500 1/21/11, Meena Haribal wrote: Chris et al, In India, at least those Black Kites (Milvus migrans govinda) that nested near my house or my office in Mumbai, preferred golden materials, especially those of fire cracker wrappers. And crows (Corvus splendens) preferred metal coat (ok clothes) hangers to sticks. I guess where these guys studied the Black Kites did not have exotic colors available. I wonder what would happen if they were given different choice of colors would they show a gradient in their fitness. Meena -- Nari B. Mistry, Ithaca, New York For my paintings, see http://www.artbynari.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: [cayugabirds-l] OOB but entertaining
Entertaining? I feel very sorry for that hawk.hope it can get out safely. Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu http://www.marieread.com From: bounce-7677576-5851...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-7677576-5851...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Barbara B. Eden [b...@cornell.edu] Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 10:56 AM To: Upstate NY Birding Subject: [cayugabirds-l] OOB but entertaining http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2011/01/watching-our-researchers-like-a-hawk/ Barbara B. Eden Director Department of Preservation and Collection Maintenance Cornell University Library B15 Olin Library Ithaca, NY 14853 email: b...@cornell.edu phone: 607-255-5291 fax:607-254-7493 http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
