Subject: Re: Red-crested Pochard??? in Tacoma?
Date: Jan 13 20:12:16 1998
From: "Ruth Sullivan" - GODWIT at worldnet.att.net


Hello Richard,
I dont think you missed a message mention this Duck. The reason we mention
this to Tweeter to find a way, how to rescue this Red- crested Pochard.I
will tell you the whole Story.
Dezember 20th on our Christmas- birdcount, we found this Bird in a verry
smal Pond hidden by tall fir-trees.This Pond is well hidden in a secluded
Neighbourhood, but we been always going there to get certain species for
our count as: Common Snipe, Wood Ducks ,Barred-OWL {one year} Townsend's
Warblers and THE Hutton's Vireo.It was still dark when icame alone to the
Pond, {Patrick further down the road try to find some OWLS} I saw the Wood-
Ducks and Mallards flying of, leaving one brown Duck behind.I had to wait
for onother 20 minutes before i could see.Even than i could not make out
what Species it was. We live only 5 minutes away, so we rushed home, to
get my Camera, also looked in the Europaien Birdbook.It is a real
Red-Crested Pochard. How does this Bird found such a smal Pond?
This got me realy puzzled.We discovert this Duck try to fly out of this
Pond, but can't make it.Dennis told me, the reason is, this particular
Species need lots of Space, to get up in to the Air so the pond is to
smal.Looking from the Photo i showed Dennis, both Wings crossing over the
Back,so there not looked clipped, most kept Birds {collect} have clipt
Wings.
There is only one more Record recorded, Tom Schooley found the other in
Eastern Washington. It is not confirmed but Recorded. This Bird seems
happy, diving feeding in company with Hooded Mergansers and Common
Goldeneye and Mallards.I contacted Tom Aversa who works at the Woodland
Park Zoo, the Zoo don't have any funding for such Project's. So here we are
looking for some-one who can rescue this Duck from this to smallish Pond
Ruth
GODWIT at worldnet.att.net







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> From: PAGODROMA <PAGODROMA at aol.com>
> To: GODWIT at worldnet.att.net
> Cc: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Re: Red-crested Pochard??? in Tacoma?
> Date: Tuesday, January 13, 1998 3:30 PM
>
> 98-10-12, Patrick Sullivan writes:
>
> << ...RED-CRESTED POCHARD...in Tacoma....(snip)..... >>
>
> What's the scoop on *this*? Is this believed to be a 'wild' bird or an
> escape? Ruth called to tell me about this maybe two weeks ago, but I'd
then
> gotten the impression it was down in the Columbia River mouth area
somewhere
> in a hard-to-get-to place and was a little dubious of it's genuine 'wild'
> origin. Patrick writes like this has been discussed already and I don't
think
> I would have missed it during the past two months or so -- since I
haven't
> missed *ANYTHING'* posted on tweeters lately -- that's not exactly a
record I
> am proud of btw '-). Any thoughts or opinions for this female
Red-crested
> Pochard? I'd guess off the top, most likely an escape from somewhere,
but I
> don't know. Thanks. --Richard
>
> Richard Rowlett (Pagodroma at aol.com)
> 47.56N, 122.13W
> (Seattle/Bellevue, WA USA)
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