Subject: Tanager query
Date: Jun 15 10:16:15 1994
From: Laura Saavedra - lsdb at u.washington.edu


I am participating in Cornell's Project Tanager (surveying a few spots
within Seattle for breeding Tanagers) and I'm wondering if anyone has
information on the courtship displays and/or the approximate fledging
dates of Western Tanagers. Today at one site, I observed a male following
and feeding a female - courtship? BTW, at this site in a one hour
period, I observed at least eight Cowbirds in the underbrush or flying
through the terrritory. Is there evidence that Western Tanagers are as
susceptible to Cowbird parasitism as other Tanagers?

David Buckley
lsdb at u.washington.edu