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Re: Suburban Barreds
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: Re: Suburban Barreds
- From: "Rob G" <thrush@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 00:29:41 +0000
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
JSR wrote:
> >Could bird feeding be concentrating passerines in predictable >locations,
>to the point that hunting them becomes profitable >for an owl in ways that
>it isn't out in the countryside? Or is >it that the suburbs have different
>common passerine species, >starlings and mockingbirds and sparrows and
> >such, as opposed to the more wary and less catchable chickadees,
> >woodpeckers, etc. in rural habitats?
and GD. inquired:
>It will be interesting to find out just what species the owls are
>taking....
for what it's worth, the most common species by far I've seen
the UNC Barreds take over the years is(not too surprisingly)
Mourning Doves.
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Rob Gluck
Chapel Hill, NC
thrush@hotmail.com
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