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Duke birds, RFI: Uwharrie plants, Re: Field check list



Hi C-birders,

Chimney Swifts are back in Durham! Right on time, according to the
Triangle checklist. Heard one twittering overhead as I graded exams out at
a picnic table this evening, about an hour ago. A pair of Brown Thrashers
appear to be nesting in the exact same impenetrable patch of Carolina
Jessamine as last year, by the loading dock for the Duke greenhouses. And
I keep seeing a Carolina Chickadee from the picnic table, flying back and
forth repeatedly along the same straight-line path, for at almost a week
now. I assume there's a nest-hole at one end of this path, and either a
steady food supply or good nesting material at the other.

A non-bird question, please answer off the list: anyone know any
interesting spots for plants or plant communities in the Uwharries, either
the National Forest or maybe Morrow Mountain State Park? This Saturday
we're bringing the plant diversity class out that way for other reasons
(primary objective is an old copper mine near Salisbury). I'm hoping we
can show them something they can't see back here in the Triangle: mountain
stuff, or sandhill, or maybe spring/seep habitat...

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jeff Breazeale
>
>     I am interested in finding some "field checklists" for birdwatching. The
> ones I'm looking for are a small thick paper type that fold up much the same
> way a scorecard for golf does. They have many birds already listed and a
> line beside each name that is marked as each bird is sighted.It's been
> several years since I've used one . Are they still around. If you can point
> me to a source as your time permits it would really help me.

The American Birding Association sells the ABA FieldCard. 3-fold thick
paper checklist of all species in the ABA area. 50 cents each. See
http://www.americanbirding.org/abasales/
it's under "Books for Traveling Birders" - "N American Checklists". Jeff's
e-mail address didn't get forwarded along with his message, Robin will
have to send this back to him...

Good birding,

Josh


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

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