Here's a bookmark site that I haven't looked at recently, regarding Korea where that species normally winters:


http://www.birdskoreablog.org/


Cheers!

Phil Hotlen
Bellingham, WA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathaniel Peters" <ncpeters at uw.edu>
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 11:08:17 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] For anyone interested, Hooded Crane in TN

Hey Tweets,


I returned to TN for the holidays to visit my family and learned from my dad that a Hooded Crane had just shown up at the Hiawassee refuge in TN and was hanging out with a flock of several thousand Sandhill Cranes and several Whooping Cranes. To my knowledge in the past years, one of these birds showed up in Idaho and perhaps one in Nebraska, but I don't know what the records committees had to say about those sightings. I also don't know whether this bird will be considered a wild bird or not, but there are sure a lot of people coming to see it. With several records now over the past several years, perhaps this bird will be added to the US records officially.....


I myself took the two hour drive from my home yesterday and got great looks at the Hooded Crane, 3 Whooping Cranes, and the large flock of Sandhills that frequent the refuge at this time of year. It is a beautiful bird with an all-dark body, white head, and red eye, and is smaller than the other cranes (apparently one of the smallest cranes worldwide).


Anyway, I know most of you won't be in the area, but if anyone is heading to the southeast for the holidays it might be worth a side trip if you love cranes. For more information, see the TN regional postings or email me for directions. You could always fly to TN, see 3 crane species, and then hit up the Ross's Gull in the Okanogan for a nice cherry on top of your bird sundae!


Happy holidays. May wondrous rarities present themselves before you.


-Nathaniel Peters
ncpeters at uw.edu
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