Re: Banded Cooper's Hawk at Hastings Park
On 2021-12-07 9:36 a.m., Daniel Bastaja wrote: Daniel, > PS: Does anybody remember the Barred Owl on the ticket platform at the Burrard Street Skytrain ticket platform back in the 90’s? No, but... >
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Richard James
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Re: Banded Cooper's Hawk at Hastings Park
That’s kind of cool. Likely trying to get on the Skytrain without a ticket! :D :D:D Daniel Bastaja danielbastaja@... PS: Does anybody remember the Barred Owl on the ticket platform at the
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Daniel Bastaja
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Re: Banded Cooper's Hawk at Hastings Park
Thanks very much for your response, Derek. I appreciate your efforts. Doug Cooper
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Doug Cooper
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Re: Banded Cooper's Hawk at Hastings Park
This is what our data coordinator came back with on the partial band number: Hard to say, but I can give you a best guess.... It's pretty likely this is one of our bands with all the birds banded at
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Derek Matthews
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Re: Banded Cooper's Hawk at Hastings Park
I have posted to the Lower Mainland Raptors Facebook page also, with photos. Perry Edwards North Vancouver
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PERRY EDWARDS
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Re: Banded Cooper's Hawk at Hastings Park
Hi Doug, Thanks for the post of the banded Cooper’s hawk. We band COHA at Colony Farm and also band all of the rehabbed raptors at Orphaned Wildlife (O.W.L.) in Delta prior to release, so there is a
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Derek Matthews
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Banded Cooper's Hawk at Hastings Park
A few weeks ago I photographed a banded adult Cooper’s Hawk at the sanctuary at Hastings Park. Unfortunately I could only read the last three numbers on the band, which were 535, I believe. I did
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Doug Cooper
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Re: Redpolls
Wayne states " if the redpolls are lumped, it won't affect the lists of most BC birders, because most of us have never seen a Hoary". Perhaps he does not recall the one discovered at QE Park on Dec
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rokman39
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Redpolls
Vancouver Birders, Common Redpoll and Hoary Redpoll were proposed for "lumping" 4 or 5 years ago. I was surprised when it did not happen. The status of these 2 redpolls has always been contentious,
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Wayne Weber
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Re: Taxonomy of the Northwestern Crow Corvus caurinus
Maybe B.C. listers are going to lose another species. :D https://www.birdguides.com/articles/genetics-suggest-redpolls-are-one-species-not-three/ danielbastaja@...
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Daniel Bastaja
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Re: Taxonomy of the Northwestern Crow Corvus caurinus
Yes� I forgot about the Thayers Gull. You are absolutely right Wayne that the splitters have the upper hand right now. I don’t know about NA but in the Western Palearctic they are split-happy! And
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Daniel Bastaja
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Re: Taxonomy of the Northwestern Crow Corvus caurinus
Daniel and Vancouver Birders, Don't forget about the questionable lumping of Thayer's Gull with Iceland Gull, which cost us another species. Despite the fact that "splitters" are winning the war on a
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Wayne Weber
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Re: Taxonomy of the Northwestern Crow Corvus caurinus
Thanks for sharing that Pamela. Interesting. I think it was only in June 2020 that it lost its specie status, was it not? Wouldn’t reversing it so soon after lumping be tantamount to admitting a
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Daniel Bastaja
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Taxonomy of the Northwestern Crow Corvus caurinus
The 2020 genetic analysis spurred some interesting discussion on this, and it has influenced how Pacific Northwest crows have been ID'd by the public on platforms like iNaturalist (not sure about
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Pamela Zevit
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Re: “Save Our Songbirds�
Hahaha � too funny Perry � thanks! Jim Pike is a neighbour and a big supporter of VARC. He did a fundraiser for us last year and said his customers loved it - a lot of them came in to his
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Derek Matthews
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“Save Our Songbirds�
Get an early start on your holiday season weight-gain program! The North Shore & Squamish ‘Jim Pike� chain of McDonalds restaurants are continuing with their 50 cents per: apple pie fundraiser for
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PERRY EDWARDS
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BIRDING EVENT: Fraser IBA eBird count � 20 November 2021!
Dear members of the birding group of Metro Vancouver area, I wanted to inform you that Birds Canada organizes a *birding event* *in the Fraser Estuary Important Bird Area on Saturday, November 20th*.
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Remi Torrenta
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BIRDING EVENT: Fraser IBA eBird count � 20 November 2021!
Dear members of the birding group of Metro Vancouver area, I wanted to inform you that Birds Canada organizes a birding event in the Fraser Estuary Important Bird Area on Saturday, November 20th. This
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Remi Torrenta
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Re: Kenya trip report
Thanks Derek, that’s awesome! wrote: V�
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Veronique Martinaud
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Kenya trip report
Hi Vancouver birders, Quite a lot of people have asked when our full Kenya trip report would be available with the bird list and information on guides and accommodations etc. so here it is for anyone
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Derek Matthews
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