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Re: hummer anatomy; SC CBCs



Dear Josh,

The venerable Charleston Christmas Bird Count
will be Sunday, December 23. We meet at
the intersection of Highways 41 and 17,
north of Mount Pleasant, SC. at 0630.

Contact Bob Chinn for details
or field party assignments. We would love to have you or
any Carolina birders.

Bob Chinn is at 843-552-7884
or at mailto:rchinn@awod.com

or contact me, Steve Compton
at mailto:scompton@sc.rr.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua Stuart Rose" <jsr6@duke.edu>
To: <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 11:55 AM
Subject: hummer anatomy; SC CBCs


> Hi Carolinabirders,
>
> Had an accipiter, a Cooper's I think, whiz by me on Oregon St. yesterday
> as I walked to the bus stop. It was perhaps 2 feet off the ground. It did
> a quick Z-curve around a hedge and disappeared.
>
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Norman Budnitz wrote:
> >
> > Subject: Re: Broad-billed Hummer (Sunday)
> >
> > Broad-billed or Broad-tailed?
> >
> > Quoting Joshua Stuart Rose <jsr6@duke.edu>:
> > >
> > > Shantanu Phukan and I saw the Broad-billed Hummingbird
>
> Oops! Sorry about that. Yes, I meant Broad-TAILED. Makes it more
> difficult to keep those names straight when you get both in one season,
> and when the names are kind of odd and don't relate at all to identifying
> them in the field. I mean, how much broader is the tail of Broad-tailed,
> or the bill of a Broad-billed, compared to other hummingbirds? Certainly
> not enough to tell with binoculars; maybe with callipers. (I could make a
> similar complaint about Broad-winged Hawks, and probably many other
> species).
>
> Jack Peachey and Gary Phillips also caught my little boo-boo. Can't put
> anything over on those Huntington Beachers!
>
> Speaking of you folks from South of the Border, can anyone down there
> tell me the SC CBC schedule, especially for counts within driving range
> of Columbia? Atlanta-area count information would also be appreciated,
> for those of you who cross over with the GA listserv. The wife and I are
> plotting our holiday schedule, which will definitely include New Year's
> and thereabouts on Lake Murray, but possibly also including time in
> Atlanta, Chicago, and right back here in Durham. I already know the
> schedule of Triangle counts; I'm trying to figure out in which of those I
> can participate, if I'll have time to finally help with a count in
> coastal NC (maybe the new Alligator River one), and whether I can find
> CBCs in the other locations in which I can take part. I managed to sneak
> onto the Rock Hill/York CBC at the last minute last year...
>
> Thanks, and good birding,
>
> Josh
>
>
> Joshua S. Rose
> Duke University
> Department of Biology (Zoology, R.I.P.)
>
> jsr6@duke.edu
> http://www.duke.edu/~jsr6/
>
>