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Re: "Rice-birds"?
- To: Ritch Lilly <scbeachbums@hotmail.com>,Carolinabirds <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
- Subject: Re: "Rice-birds"?
- From: Helmut Mueller <hmuelle@earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 09:39:22 -0400
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Bobolinks are "rice birds"
-- Helmut C Mueller
409 Moonridge Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Phone: 919-942-4937
Permanent email address: hmueller@email.unc.edu
> From: "Ritch Lilly" <scbeachbums@hotmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 08:57:39 -0400
> To: "Carolinabirds" <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
> Subject: "Rice-birds"?
>
> I met a fellow yesterday at a catfish farm in Dillon County, SC (Thanks
> Steve!). I told him a was looking for birds. He told me they often had
> snipe on the property. He then went on to explain that he would also see
> several hundred "rice-birds" on the power lines each fall over a field of
> sunflowers that he plants every year. I told him I was unfamiliar with
> "rice-birds". He gave me a confused look as if to ask, "What kind of birder
> are you anyway if you don't even know a "rice-bird" when you see one?". He
> said the folks around there had always called them "rice-birds".
> Nevertheless, I asked him several questions about the bird he spoke of yet I
> was able to get little else from him in the way of a description. He could
> tell me that the bird had "more white on it than the snipe" and that its
> "bib" (bill?) was alot shorter than the snipe's.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone on the list could enlighten me as to the true
> identity of a "rice-bird".
>
> Thanks,
> Ritch Lilly
> Myrtle Beach, SC
> scbeachbums@hotmail.com