Subject: Sky Larks in 1998
Date: Feb 6 13:02:20 2001
From: Dennis Paulson - dpaulson at ups.edu
>Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:56:04 EST
>Subject: Skylarks
>
>Dennis, I was checking out your report on San Juan Is and I had some
>information that might be helpful in regards to the skylark population.
>In the spring of 1998 when I was an undergrad in wildlife at the UW we
>did a complete survey of rabbits at the american camp location near the
>redoubt. There were 19 people spread at 20m apart in swaths to count
>rabbit burrows that were active. Because I was also interested in the
>question of skylarks, I showed my fellow classmates how to identify a
>skylark if they saw one. I personally saw one in my area of coverage and
>had one other well described bird reported to me. From its location, it
>would have had to be a second bird. Neither bird was singing and both
>were flushed, though this was in the beginning of may. Due to this very
>small numbers three years ago, its possible that one or a couple of birds
>are hanging on, but if they are, its just barely. Hope this helps. I'm
>not subscribed to tweets as I'm living out of state now, but if you feel
>it would be of interest to people on the tweeters community, you have my
>permission to post it. Scott Downes
Dennis Paulson, Director phone 253-879-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax 253-879-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416
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