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Broke-back Bayou?
This was posted furhter back in the AR Listserve. I refer you to the comment on Longspurs - "but a few Smith's might have been present" Notice the creeping "might have".
I love the precision of the bird ID going on with these searchers. They seem perfectly trained to report what "may be" or be "99% sure" it was an IBWO.
If this is really how some IBWO search team members identify birds (and it seems that it is) methinks we have a problem in the Bayou. Oddly, in bird reports, species identification is actually important.
Arghhhhh.
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Subject: Stuttgart Airport (from IBWO volunteer searchers)
From: Dan Scheiman
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 09:23:33 -0500
on April 1 three of the volunteer IBWO searchers (L. Lade, A. Evans, and E.
Wade) birded Stuttgart Airport. They reported:
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American Golden-Plover: ~60
Longspurs: ~30 - mostly Lapland, but a few Smith’s may have been present
Savannah Sparrow: very abundant in the grassy areas along the runways
Three other birders the group met reported Sprague’s Pipit and LeConte’s
Sparrow.
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I don't think this is an April Fools joke. Its late for the longspurs but
not for Sprague's Pipit according to Arkansas Audubon's checklist.
Dan Scheiman
Little Rock, AR
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