Jerry Converse asked about Wilson's Phalaropes...
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> It was all by it's self. :-( Have the parents already started their
> Southern migration and left without it??
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The Wilson's Phalaropes we saw last week at the Kelowna dump (Okanagan/
B.C.) were still being fed by adults. I didn't pay attention whether there
were 2 feeding the same bird, or only 1 parent.

Reto Riesen
Dept. Chem., UBC
Vancouver, B.C.
riesenr at chem.ubc.ca