Well, I've also been birding for over 30 years and am now 79 and find this list handy when I don't know the code, as I didn't with ANMU.
Cheers, Val Fuller.
On 11/15/22 04:22 PM, "Tsuru" <tsuru88@...> wrote:Thanks.? Sorry but after being a birder since I was 9 and now 73, haven't learned, nor do I care to, all the new abbreviations that are too easily spelled out.
But appreciate you taking time to answer. On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 1:23 PM ValerieFuller < ungulate@...> wrote:
Ancient Murrelet.
See:??
Val Fuller??
On 11/15/22 12:12 PM, "Tsuru" <tsuru88@...> wrote:What on earth is an ANMU? I have been out quite often this last week or so. Taking my son Luke and we are seeing these guys everywhere... they were hard to find a few years ago. Seen at White Rock, Point Roberts and Kwomais...? does anyone have a hypothesis?
Mike Newey
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Cheers,
Val Fuller,
Ladner, B. C.
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Cheers,
Val Fuller,
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Thanks.? Sorry but after being a birder since I was 9 and now 73, haven't learned, nor do I care to, all the new abbreviations that are too easily spelled out.
But appreciate you taking time to answer.
On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 1:23 PM ValerieFuller < ungulate@...> wrote:
Ancient Murrelet.
See:??
Val Fuller??
On 11/15/22 12:12 PM, "Tsuru" <tsuru88@...> wrote:What on earth is an ANMU? On Mon, Nov 14, 2022, 11:04 PM Mike Newey via <md_newey@...> wrote:
I have been out quite often this last week or so. Taking my son Luke and we are seeing these guys everywhere... they were hard to find a few years ago. Seen at White Rock, Point Roberts and Kwomais...? does anyone have a hypothesis?
Mike Newey
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Cheers,
Val Fuller,
Ladner, B. C.
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Ancient Murrelet.
See:??https://www.birdatlas.bc.ca/bcdata/codes.jsp?lang=en&pg=species&sortorder=codes
Val Fuller??
On 11/15/22 12:12 PM, "Tsuru" <tsuru88@...> wrote:What on earth is an ANMU? I have been out quite often this last week or so. Taking my son Luke and we are seeing these guys everywhere... they were hard to find a few years ago. Seen at White Rock, Point Roberts and Kwomais...? does anyone have a hypothesis?
Mike Newey
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Cheers,
Val Fuller,
Ladner, B. C.
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They can be scoped off the White Rock pier. They are also viewable by scope from Lighthouse Marine Park in Point Roberts.
Ian Burgess
Hi Mike, Where in White Rock did you see them? Thanks, Nikhil
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They can be scoped off the White Rock pier. They are also viewable by scope from Lighthouse Marine Park in Point Roberts.
Ian Burgess
Hi Mike, Where in White Rock did you see them? Thanks, Nikhil
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What on earth is an ANMU?
I have been out quite often this last week or so. Taking my son Luke and we are seeing these guys everywhere... they were hard to find a few years ago. Seen at White Rock, Point Roberts and Kwomais...? does anyone have a hypothesis?
Mike Newey
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I have been out quite often this last week or so. Taking my son Luke and we are seeing these guys everywhere... they were hard to find a few years ago. Seen at White Rock, Point Roberts and Kwomais...? does anyone have a hypothesis?
Mike Newey
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FW: Seeking Partners in Flight Awards nominations, deadline January 11th (please distribute widely)
Just passing this along, please contact PIF if you have any questions.
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From: Western Partners In Flight <WPART-L@...>
On Behalf Of Carol Beidleman
Sent: November 9, 2022 11:11 AM
Subject: Seeking Partners in Flight Awards nominations, deadline January 11th (please distribute widely)
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Do you know someone who has made exceptional contributions to landbird conservation???Nominate an individual or group for a Partners in Flight Award!
Partners in Flight Awards recognize exceptional contributions to the field of landbird conservation in the Americas.??Nominees will be considered
who have significantly furthered the mission of Partners in Flight and its goal of protecting priority migratory and resident landbirds and their habitats.??To be eligible, projects or activities must have been initiated after 1990.??Nominees will be evaluated
in five award categories: Leadership, Investigations, Public Awareness, Stewardship, and the David N. Pashley Lifetime Achievement Award.?
Before submitting a nomination please read the attached Nomination Guidelines, which include the description of each category so you can select the
most appropriate category for your nominee.? Also check the attached list of previous Partners in Flight Award Winners to make sure your nominee has not previously received an award.
Complete one nomination, using the attached Nomination Form, for the category you have selected in which to nominate an individual or group.? If
the nomination is for an individual who works as part of a group, provide examples of the specific accomplishments of that individual within the context of the larger group effort.?
Nominations will be reviewed by the Partners in Flight Awards Committee.? The Committee reserves the right to reassign a nomination to a different
category from which it was originally submitted.
Please submit your nomination to?cbeidleman@...?by 5
p.m. Mountain Standard Time Wednesday, January 11, 2023.
This information is also available?at?.?
Questions?? Contact Carol Beidleman,?Partners in Flight Awards Committee Chair, at?cbeidleman@....?
Carol
Chair, Partners in Flight Awards Committee
Environment for the Americas
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Hello,
It's getting to that time of year to start planning and encouraging people to get involved in the Christmas Bird Count (CBC). See ?for more information. Map shows count circles (yellow ones with dates defined, orange still tbd) and each circle has contact info for organizers and a very nice map. Lots of orange circles still across Canada. Impressive to see how many count circles there are. Feel free to share this message.
Happy birding!
Greg Ferguson Richmond, BC
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Fraser Estuary KBA eBird Count
Saturday November 19: the Fraser Estuary KBA (Key Biodiversity Area) eBird Count is happening again, organized by Birds Canada!
Choose a zone you want to survey, count all the birds within that zone with your team, and report your count on eBird!
To participate in this monitoring effort, you can register on .
Map of the zones .
Happy birding,
The BC Birds Canada team
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Global Nightjar Network: 2022 Virtual Meeting
FYI, just passing this along. please check out the registration page or contact
[email protected] if you would like further information. Forum is in universal time, so an early start in our time zone on day one.
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The Global Nightjar Network presents the programme for the upcoming 2022 virtual conference Wednesday November 16th - Friday November 18th!
We are absolutely thrilled with the number & breadth of abstracts submitted this year; we hope you will be too.
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The conference has been organized into three days, each of which contains:
- 3 sections of talks organized by topic
- a break for meals and/or breakout sessions (your choice), and
- an invited "nightjar adjacent" keynote talk (talks that are relevant to nightjars, but not about nightjars per se)
To help us continue to prepare for the conference, we are seeking feedback on the following:
- Are you interested in having your name and email included in a Participant Registry and circulated to the group to facilitate networking? If so, please opt-in via this google
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- Do you have a topic that you'd like to host a breakout discussion session?for? Please email ideas to Marja at?mbakermans@....
See you in two weeks!
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Haven't registered yet? Participant registration is free & open until November 9th! Register
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Reporting Sandhill Cranes in BC
There is a website for reporting Sandhill Crane sightings in BC.
Terry Carr Delta, Bc
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The pinyon jay¡¯s predicament
This article made me think of the presence of scrub jays here, and implications for range shifts, assisted migration and the continued ripple effects of climate change, and what role BC will play in all of this.
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¡°These dusky blue birds once roamed the West in huge flocks, with hundreds alighting on pi?on pines to glean nuts in the winter months. Now it¡¯s uncommon to see flocks of more than 100. In the last 50 years, the population of pinyon jays
has declined by an estimated 80%¡±
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Pamela Zevit RPBio | Biodiversity Conservation Planner
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T 604.590.7254
I am privileged to work on the shared traditional territories (t¨¦m:¨¦xw) of the s?my¨¢m? (Semiahmoo), sq??c?iy?a?? (Katzie), K?ik?????m (Kwikwetlem), q??¨»:n????n? (Kwantlen),
Qiq¨¦yt (Qayqayt), Sc??wa¦È?n (Tsawwassen) and x?m?¦Èk??y??m (Musqueam).
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Re: [bcintbird] 'Hummingbirds - a Celebration of Nature's Jewel's'
On 2022-10-23 8:29 p.m., Chris Siddle wrote: I believe the photographer's name is spelled Glenn Bartley. He has published Birds of British Columbia: A photographic journey (Heritage, 2013) as well as Birds in Ecuador: a photographic journey (no date or publisher given). Yes, that is correct. I did not check the OP's spelling when I went to Glenn's website to check it was the right person. FYI: -- Richard James From an Island in the Pacific, Victoria, BC
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Re: [bcintbird] 'Hummingbirds - a Celebration of Nature's Jewel's'
Andy Swash is also a co-author on several other excellent books including, ¡°The World¡¯s Rarest Birds¡± (which I own), and a nature guide to the Gal¨¢pagos Islands.
Perry Edwards
North Vancouver
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On Oct 23, 2022, at 11:10, Richard James <rich@...> wrote:
?On 2022-10-23 9:53 a.m., Michael Lancaster wrote:
Michael,
From time to time, Princeton University press sends me emails with details of books that might interest me.
A recent email featured a book on hummingbirds. The lead author is a Canadian (Glen Bartlet) the second author(Andy Swash) a British person who as a schoolboy spent many hours in my UK house discussing birds. Glen is not only Canadian, he is from Victoria.
I have seen his images before and am impressed!
Thanks for posting this.
This book is not an identification guide, nor a 'where to find guide' Although all species of hummingbirds are listed and the countries where one might see them. The taxonomy is detailed.All genera(101) are illustrated. 262 species of the 369 species are illustrated.
Both authors are photographers, and the book contains over 500 stunning photographs, of which, over 80% were taken by the authors. Glen Bartlet, whose main aim is to produce top class photographs of hummingbirds, devised a technique that does just that. Andy Swash has been pursuing a childhood dream of seeing hummingbirds. Both authors share a passion for hummingbirds.
I bought the Kindle version and downloaded it to my Ipad. The photos alone made the price worthwhile.
Reading the book from cover to cover I gained much information about hummingbirds.
I was unaware that Anna's has been recorded in Alaska.
For years I wondered how hummingbirds found feeders where previously they had not been hung. I was told that red attracts them. Well, certainly that colour does, but it is largely irrelevant since I have seen hummingbirds at many different shaped, coloured, and sized feeders. There is no doubt that hummingbirds near human habitation become habituated to feeders early on in life.Whether hummingbirds can smell, is apparently still to be discovered. What I now know, however, is that hummingbirds perceive the ultraviolet spectrum and that plain water looks different to sugar water to them. So stop using red coloured sugar water!!
Anyone who wishes to gain more knowledge about hummingbirds would do well to buy this book.
I thoroughly recommend it, especially the convenience of a Kindle version.
Barry
M B Lancaster
Currently, Oliver BC Canada
Prescience is wonderful if acted upon (MBL 2019)
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Re: [bcintbird] 'Hummingbirds - a Celebration of Nature's Jewel's'
On 2022-10-23 9:53 a.m., Michael Lancaster wrote: Michael, From time to time, Princeton University?press sends me emails with details of books that might?interest me.
A recent email featured a book on hummingbirds. The lead author is a Canadian (Glen Bartlet) the second author(Andy Swash) a British person who as a schoolboy spent many hours in my UK house discussing birds. Glen is not only Canadian, he is from Victoria. I have seen his images before and am impressed! Thanks for posting this. This book is not an identification? guide, nor? a 'where to find guide' Although all species of hummingbirds?are listed and the countries where one might see them. The taxonomy is detailed.All genera(101) are illustrated. 262 species of the 369 species are illustrated.
Both authors are photographers, and the book contains over 500 stunning photographs, of which, over 80% were taken by the authors. Glen Bartlet, whose main aim is to produce top class photographs?of hummingbirds, devised a technique that does?just?that. Andy Swash has been pursuing a childhood dream of seeing hummingbirds. Both authors share a passion for hummingbirds.
I bought the Kindle version?and downloaded it to my Ipad. The photos alone made the price worthwhile.
Reading the book from cover to cover I gained much information about hummingbirds.
?I was unaware that Anna's has been recorded?in Alaska.
For years I wondered how hummingbirds found feeders where previously they had not been hung. I was told that?red attracts?them. Well, certainly that colour does, but it is largely irrelevant since I have seen hummingbirds at many different shaped,?coloured, and sized feeders. There is no doubt that hummingbirds near human?habitation become habituated to feeders early on in life.Whether hummingbirds can smell, is apparently still to be discovered. What I now know, however, is that hummingbirds perceive?the ultraviolet spectrum and that plain?water looks different to sugar water to them. So stop using red coloured sugar water!!
Anyone who wishes?to gain more knowledge about hummingbirds would do well?to buy this book.
I thoroughly recommend it, especially the convenience of a Kindle version.
Barry
M B Lancaster
Currently, Oliver BC Canada
Prescience is wonderful if acted upon (MBL 2019)
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Migration monitoring at Iona
Hello,
The link below leads to a recent paper on songbird refuelling at Iona Bird Observatory. Some sections are bit technical, but text sections are accessible and is worth reading. This paper is top shelf science, it is very good.
If you were on any of the WildResearch pelagic birding trips, you helped fund this science. I believe this peer reviewed paper is the first peer review generated from any of the migration station in BC.
Paul Levesque
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BTW, if anybody is on Twitter, there is a Twitter account for tracking the godwits migration. It¡¯s pretty cool.
Check out @miranda_trust
Daniel Bastaja
danielbastaja@...
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On Sep 21, 2022, at 8:36 AM, Daniel Bastaja <danielbastaja@...> wrote:
Thanks so much for sharing that Perry. Super article! I knew about the migration, but the article mentions a lot of things I didn't know. Like how their organs shrink before the journey. Wow! How about the enduring mystery of how hatch year birds, having lived all of their short existence on the Alaskan tundra, can successfuly navigate across vast, trackless expanses of ocean to NZ, never having made the journey before, and with no GPS! That is just as astounding as the sheer physicality needed to make the journey.
That¡¯s why I am always amazed at how indifferent many people are to nature. They play video games and are into virtual and augmented reality when the most bizarre, magical, beautiful (and violent) kingdom is right outside their door in the their backyard.
Daniel Bastaja
danielbastaja@...
On Sep 21, 2022, at 7:38 AM, PERRY EDWARDS <drchuper@...> wrote:
An excellent NY Times article on the Bar-Tailed Godwit¡¯s epic 7000 mile flights AK - NZ.
Perry Edwards
North Vancouver
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