Michael,

I've probably missed something vital here, but why are the record peaks
assumed to be migration peaks rather than breeding peaks? Were they
carrying luggage?


> ** Michael price wrote -
>
>
> > Total BC records: x
> > x
> > YB Cuckoo x BB Cuckoo x
> > x x
> > x x
> > x x x x
> > x x x x
> > x x x x x x
> > x x x x x x x
> > x x x x x x x
> > x x x x x x x
> > -|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|- -|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-
> > J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D
> >
> > The June peak is consistent with YB Cuckoo's northbound migration period.
>
> ** Correction to previous post enclosed in asterisks: **
>
> Three additional BC records of Yellow-billed Cuckoos since the publication of
> Birds of BC: one in July (can't find the day) 1992 in Kelowna, BC, and
> another there **two years** later on July 27; also two photos of a dead
> Yellow-billed Cuckoo in the summer of 1994 (again the date is locked away under
> one of several mountains of paper in this room) which ended up in the files of
> the Cowan Vertebrate Museum at UBC. Now on to tidying up...
>
> - Jack
>
>
>
>
> Jack Bowling
> Prince George, BC
> jbowling at direct.ca
>

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