Subject: poor Band-tailed year?
Date: Sep 16 09:33:19 2002
From: Scott Atkinson - scottratkinson at hotmail.com


Mark:

I too sense a decline in Band-tails in the general area over the years, and
in fact the only time I really see numbers the way I once did is in spring
migration (late April-early May), and that involves birds presumably that
nest north of here. I was surprised, given local declines, that we have a
8-day season for hunting them this year, given that population levels seem
not all that great.

Scott Atkinson
Lake Stevens
mail to: scottratkinson at hotmail.com


>From: Mark Egger <megger at attbi.com>
>Reply-To: megger at attbi.com
>To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
>Subject: poor Band-tailed year?
>Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 02:02:41 -0700
>
>Hello Tweets,
>
>I've been wondering if anyone else has noticed the lack of Band-tailed
>Pigeons this spring and summer. I've had them in my back yard and elsewhere
>around the Matthews Beach area every year, nearly year round, for well over
>a decade, but they seem to be locally extirpated or else gone elsewhere,,.
>all within the last year! Has anyone in this area seen them? Pigeons are
>such cool birds (possibly excepting urban rock doves, I hate to loose a
>species like that, especially when it's held on for so long against all
>urban odds...I've always associated these forest pigeons with the pine-oak
>of the SW and the Sierras of W Mexico, and to have them in the Seattle
>backyard was a real treat! I was never sure where this group found its salt
>-- can anyone on the list shed some light on that? I know the Band-tails of
>Matthews Beach long pre-date MY arrival on the scene (moved to neighborhood
>in 1986), so their disappearance, if that is what it is, should be an
>"environmental consequence" worthy of some further note and analysis...
>
>Mark




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