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Re: There but unseen

Rich Wakelam
 

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On the topic of the Ring-billed Gull, I wonder if consideration been given to the fact that the tracking device is known to be present in the Ukraine but that may not guarantee the bird is present, however small the odds. (device was picked up and taken by humans, bird of prey swallowed it and it¡¯s still functioning, etc).
On the topic of Common Poorwill I have a record of discovery of one from 1987 in Coquitlam but I still don¡¯t have one on my life list in Metro Vancouver. Found deceased roadside.



On Mar 30, 2022, at 16:59, Paul Clapham <paul.c.clapham@...> wrote:

?And no sooner do you say that, then I have a report of just that: Common Poorwill in Manitoba, being reported although nobody saw it. Sure, I've reported Common Poorwills myself without seeing them, as have many others, but in this case nobody heard it either. It was heard by a scientific project to record grassland birds for the purpose of surveying them.

Read about it here:

The article mentions that up to that point there were no confirmed records of Common Poorwill in Manitoba but it doesn't go on to tell us whether the local bird records committee has accepted the record.

Paul Clapham
Vancouver

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