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>Subject: [BIRDWEST] South Idaho RBA, March 30
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>RBA
>* South Idaho
>* Mar. 30, 1998
>* IDSO9803.30
>
>- birds mentioned
>
>
>Snow Geese
>Barrow's Goldeneyes
>Common Goldeneyes
>Red-Breasted Mergansers
>Mew Gull
>Tundra Swans
>Trumpeter Swans
>Loggerhead Shrikes
>Ferruginous Hawks
>Oldsquaw
>Osprey
>Sage Sparrows
>
>- transcript
>
>Hotline: South Idaho Rare Bird Alert 208-236-3337
>To Report: Chuck Trost 208-236-3337
>Compiler: Diana Gettinger 208-378-9325
>
>
>This is the South Idaho Bird Alert, brought to you by the Idaho Museum
>of Natural History. This alert was updated on Monday, March 30th.
>
>Highlights for this week include an OSPREY, a MEW GULL plus an OLDSQUAW
below the
>dam at American Falls. Large flocks of TUNDRA SWANS are resting at Mud
Lake WMA, and
>SAGE SPARROWS are on territory near the town of Hamer.
>
>A yearling MEW GULL was seen Sunday below the dam at American Falls. It
was sitting with
>several RING-BILLED GULLS on the rocks by the spillway on the south side.
To find it take
>Falls Avenue at the Circle K on the west side of town, drive straight down
to the parking lot and
>park below the dam, and look on the rocks to the east of the park. Last
week an adult MEW
>GULL was there too. About 40 RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS were courting in the calm
>water just below the park on Sunday morning. There is an OSPREY on the
Snake River near
>the light poles about a half mile downstream, out from the trout farm. It
can best be seen from
>the overlook near the landfill, just west of the cemetary, which is off
McKinley Road on the
>west side of American Falls. Both BARROW'S and COMMON GOLDENEYES are
feeding in
>the Snake River just below the landfill, and an OLDSQUAW was there last week.
>
>Perhaps two thousand TUNDRA SWANS with about 30 TRUMPETER SWANS mixed in are
>resting on the south side of Mud Lake WMA, which is about 7 miles west of
Sage Junction, and
>about 20 miles north of Idaho Falls. To see them take 1400 East to the
north out of Terreton,
>which is at about B-1 on page 40 of the Idaho DeLorme Atlas. There are
also about 5000
>SNOW GEESE resting on the ice on Mud Lake.
>
>SAGE SPARROWS are singing on terrotories east of I-15 between Sage Junction
and the
>town of Hamer. The best way to see them is to get off the freeway at Sage
Junction, about
>6 miles north of Roberts and take the frontage road on the east side for
about two miles north.
>There are also FERRUGINOUS HAWKS and possibly LOGGERHEAD SHRIKES in the area.
>
>
>
>Finally, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been putting neck collars
on TRUMPETER SWANS
>in the area. If you see any marked birds please try to read the
alpha-numeric numbers on the
>collar and report it and the location to Steve Bouffard at (208) 237-6616
or e-mail at
>steve_bouffard at mail.fws.gov.
>
>

Deb Beutler
Department of Zoology
P.O. Box 644236
Washington State Univerisity
Pullman, Whitman Co., WA
dbeutler at wsunix.wsu.edu