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our Pine Warblers in Florida?



Hi C-birders,

Thanks for all the Wood Duck updates; they seem to be avoiding me
specifically, not the triangle as a whole...

Checked out the birding listserv archive, for the first time in a while.
We were wondering why there seemed to be fewer Pine Warblers around here
("here" being the NC Piedmont) than usual. Well, several birders in north
Florida, plus one from the Texas coast, have noted that they have a lot
MORE Pines than usual this winter. Combine that with Scott and John's
observations of large numbers of Pine Warblers in the NC coastal plain.
Maybe the ice storm drove them off to warmer, milder locations?

Other notes: in addition to the Long-billed Murrelet on the Morehead City
CBC, one was found in Tennessee on the Reelfoot CBC! And groups of
Trumpeter Swans are being seen in both the Florida and Texas panhandles;
the Texas group has been traced to a release program in Iowa, and the
Florida birds may not be "countable" either, but the fact that they
migrated so far south is very intriguing...

Good birding,

Josh


Joshua S. Rose
Duke University
Department of Biology (Zoology, R.I.P.)

jsr6@duke.edu
http://www.duke.edu/~jsr6/