Subject: [Tweeters] bell's vireo
Date: Jun 18 10:11:27 2005
From: Brett Wolfe - m_lincolnii at yahoo.com


Thanks for posting this Caren. I wanted to post about this last Friday when the bird was actually found, but was not allowed to. The San Joaquin River NWR is where I have been living all summer, as I am working for PRBO. I was one of the lucky few who got to go out and see these birds prior to the USFWS Endangered Species folks putting the clamp-down on. There are a total of 4 birds, male, female and 2 youngsters recently fledged and being fed. On Friday the 10th when the birds were found by Linette, she observed the female doing her copulation dance and the birds copulating, which is very exciting news! This is a species that double-broods and it is hoped that PRBO will be allowed a permit to monitor the birds and try to find an active nest. These birds have not been seen in the Central Valley for some 60 years, but 1919 was the last breeding record in Stanislaus County.

This is a very small Refuge down here, yet an important one. It is also home to some 80% of all the wintering Aleutian Canada Goose population each winter. And now a 2nd endangered species has been found here, one that has stopped highways from being built in L.A. I feel privileged to have seen these birds here, and it is a lifer for me, my 45th lifer this year. Thanks again for posting this on tweeters Caren. Good birding!

Brett A. Wolfe
Seattle, WA (in San Joaquin/Central Valley for summer 2005)
m_lincolnii at yahoo.com


carenp <carenp at totalise.co.uk> wrote:
FRESNO, Calif. ? A chatty songbird thought to have disappeared from the
Central Valley 60 years ago has been spotted nesting in a patch of restored
habitat along the San Joaquin River

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002338096_webbird16.html

00 caren
http://www.parkgallery.org
on the internet near juanita bay

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