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FW: Bewick's Wren Banded in WV !!!!



I thought Carolina birders would be interested in this.

Don Hendershot
Waynesville, NC (828) 452-4569

-----Original Message-----
From:	Wallace Coffey [SMTP:jwcoffey@TRICON.NET]
Sent:	Thursday, January 13, 2000 12:58 AM
To:	TN-BIRD@LIST.AUDUBON.ORG
Subject:	Bewick's Wren Banded in WV !!!!

A remarkable report from Ron Canterbury of Concord College at Athens, WV.  Today, they captured and banded a Bewick's Wren.  There is no information in his report suggesting whether it could be the Appalachian race "Thryomanes bewickii altus".  Ken Rosenberg wrote in "Winging It"  11(6):9 that this race has undergone a precipitous population decline east of the Mississippi River and there have been no sightings during the last ten years.
Read on.  You'll enjoy the news.
Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN    

--------- Forwarded message ----------
From:	Ron Canterbury <canterburyr@CONCORD.EDU>
To:	WV-BIRD@LIST.AUDUBON.ORG
Date:	Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:49:16 -0800

Birders:
My research group banded a Bewick's wren today in Athens, Mercer County, WV. This may be the first confirmed sighting in several decades and perhaps the first bird banding in WV., unless Dr. Bibbee banded Bewick's wrens for his dissertation.
The species is virtually extirpated in WV. and much of its range. Only three confirmed records in 1994 WV Breeding Bird Atlas (Buckelew and Hall 1994), which includes data collected in mid to late 80s. It was listed as a common backyard bird by Bibbee (1929) in central, WV., and was found on 15 BBS routes from 1966 to 1980 but none as been recorded since then.  I know of only one other record of a bird seen in 1997 at Sandstone Falls, Raleigh County WV in fall 1997. Thus, it was virtually absent since 1980.
I am still on "cloud nine" over this one.
Ron Canterbury

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