Hi folks, Thanks to the several people who have responded to this! The universal recommendation is that I contact Paul Curtis. In case anybody else needs this information, his email address is
p...@cornell.edu and his website is http://dnr.cornell.edu/people/faculty.cfm?netId=pdc1 best, jesse On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Jesse Ross <jesse.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > The half dozen or so Turkey Vultures patiently adorning the trees in my > wooded backyard in Northeast Ithaca alerted me to a dead deer back there. > The neighborhood deer have been seeming desperately hungry lately - often > seen standing on tiptoes for a measly handful of hemlock needles, > shamelessly begging whenever they see me take out the compost, and > generally looking unhealthy and unsteady. > > There are also some hair-stuffed tubular excreta of some kind in the > vicinity. They don't quite look like coyote scat to me, so my next guess is > pellets from the vultures? > > Given the topic of this mailing list, I'll also say that I got fantastic > views of these grim and gruesome, but interesting and ecologically > valuable, birds. > > Anyways, the unlucky deer has numbered white ear tags, so I guess somebody > went to the trouble of sterilizing it. I'm wondering if anybody is > collecting information about these tagged animals. If anybody has any > contact info I'd appreciate it! > > Thanks, > Jesse Ross > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
