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Most of the time, when a dead bird is reported on a SEANET beach, we never find out what happened to it. Whether it’s a lack of resources to perform necropsies, or simply that no cause was evident at necropsy and no more extensive diagnostics could be performed, we often end up with unsatisfying partial […]
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I may be focused on the study of live gulls this week, but I never forget my roots, dear Seanetters. I have found more than 10 dead birds while here. Some were mere fragments of Northern Flickers or other smallish sorts of birds, but we also found a freshly dead female eider. Common Eiders nest […]
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First, and in brief, there was broad, almost universal consensus on the Dead Bird Quiz: Bird A is an immature Bonaparte’s Gull and Bird B is a Snowy Egret (and Mary Wright even went a step further saying it’s an after-second-year (ASY) bird “based on the broad outer primaries.”) I buy this entirely since Mary […]
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We got a comment on a previous Dead Bird Quiz that gave me cause to revisit my i.d. I believe the comment is from birder Pam Hunt, as the commenter’s email traces back to this cool blog, Birding with Sacagawea. Pam (correct me if that’s not who you are, commenter!) wrote, “I’m pretty sure Bird […]
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Thanks to grant funding from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, I will be traveling down to the Charleston, SC area for a volunteer training session on June 13th! Jennifer Koches, Craig Watson, and John Stanton have been hustling around to get us a venue, some prospective volunteers, and a sampler platter of museum specimens [...]
