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-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Browne <pbrowne at CYBERUS.CA>
To: BIRDCHAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU <BIRDCHAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 1997 8:19 PM
Subject: [BIRDCHAT] Flamingo returned, thanks to Birdchat


>Several weeks ago a free flying Chilean Flamingo arrived at Ottawa,
Ontario.
>I posted this news on Birdchat and Ray Belding of Torrington, Ct informed
me
>that such a bird had escaped from S. Dillon Ripley's Livingstone Wildlife
>Preserve at Litchfield, Connecticut. Mike Bean, contacted there by phone,
>confirmed that they had been trying to catch the bird on the Connecticut
>River for a month, until she disappeared the week before. After another
>month of effort by staff and volunteers of the Ottawa Wild Bird Care
Centre,
>led by Cathy Nehei, the flamingo was caught last week. Its downfall came
>when eventually all its feeding areas froze over. Here was a flamingo
>standing on the ice looking for food! A net trap had been constructed over
>a creek, so the ice was broken there and the flamingo went straight inside.
>Yesterday she (known to be female by size) was flown to Connecticut and is
>now back with her flock. The birders and public here are sorry to have
lost
>this touch of exotica but glad she is safe.
>
>Peter Browne
>Ottawa, Canada
>pbrowne at cyberus.ca
>
Cheers
Gail Spitler
Johnsons Landing, BC
gspitler at awinc.com