Hi Folks - Matt Hunter was looking for some information on the Yellow-billed Cuckoo that was identified in prey remains at a (Seattle?) Peregrine nest. I do not recall the specifics of that report (or even when it happened.....), but I'm sure that I read about it on Tweeters.

Can anyone return a message to Matt and Kelly (or post it to Tweeters, so that we can all be reminded of a neat piece of natural history..) with the necessary information?

Many thanks in advance!!

Jon. Anderson
Olympia, Washington
festuca at olywa.net

----- Original Message -----
From: Matthew G. Hunter
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 4:11 PM
Subject: Fw: Yellow-billed Cuckoo account


Jon,
Do you know the source of the information that Kelly Bettinger is recalling below (cuckoos as Peregrine prey)?
Thanks,
Matt Hunter
541-745-5199
matt.hunter at attbi.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Kelly A. Bettinger
To: Matthew G. Hunter
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: Yellow-billed Cuckoo account


HI Matt, I just can't pull it out of the cobwebs of my memory....but it was up in Washington and perhaps on Tweeters. You might want to send a message to Tweeters (or to Jon Anderson who can then post to Tweeeters for you) and ask about the source of that info.
Kelly
At 02:47 PM 8/15/02 -0700, you wrote:

Kelly, did you recall where you heard this info on the cuckoos and peregrines?
Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: Kelly A. Bettinger
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: Yellow-billed Cuckoo account


Hi Dave, Cuckoo account looks great...the only other potentially interesting piece of info I have heard of is the unusual number of times (for it's rarity in the region) YBCU has shown up as a prey species in the nests of peregrine falcons - one in particular was captured on video up in Washington. I can't recall now where I heard or read this - did you come across anything? It may have been Idaho PEFA nests in addition to the WA one?
Kelly


At 09:52 AM 5/23/02 -0700, David B. Marshall wrote:
Matt: Attached is the draft YBCU account for BOGR. Kelly Bettinger and Barbara Combs both sent me information for this account so I am copying it to them should they have any comments. I am also copying to Sybil Ackerman of Audubon of Portland as a matter of information. This account is longer than I had hoped (about 1750 words); but considering its former status, the lawsuits over failure of FWS to list, and present precarious condition throughout the west, it is a species of special interest among people interested in conservation of birds. I am still trying to find out what happened to the Bend specimen, but am not going to hold things up over that one.
Dave
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