You can see the video at johnsfiberglassboatrepair.webs.com to large to post it on this site. sorry
Tricolored Blackbird Lost or looking for new home?
Started by Glassmann, May 19 2012 09:35 PM
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Posted 19 May 2012 - 09:35 PM
I live in Mo. 50 to 75 miles south west of St. Louis. We bought a home last year and have had nothing but fun just trying to reconize all the differant types of birds. One my wife saw this morning was an endangered tricolor Black Bird. I first thought she might have seen a red wing black bird, but when she showed me the video it was endangered tricolored black bird. My question is,( Is it common for that type of bird to venture so far from its colonie?) and if it is uncommon who do I contact? You can see the video at johnsfiberglassboatrepair.webs.com to large to post it on this site. sorry
You can see the video at johnsfiberglassboatrepair.webs.com to large to post it on this site. sorry
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Posted 20 May 2012 - 01:43 AM
I don't think it would be a Tricolored Blackbird. Chances are SUPER slim that he came that far. I think it was a RWBB.
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2013: 220
Yard List: 85 Latest: Violet-green Swallow, Tricolored Blackbird
http://www.flickr.co...s/89595711@N08/
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Posted 20 May 2012 - 04:44 AM
I agree with JimBob. You'd have a better chance of winning the lottery while simultaneously getting struck by lightening and being eaten by a Polar Bear than seeing a Tricolored Blackbird in Missouri. Please don't take that the wrong way, I am not trying to be insulting I'm just trying to illistrate the odds of that happening. It was probably an aberant Red-winged Blackbird. Can you post the video?
New Year's Resolutions:
Get my lifelist to 300 (currently 293)
Finally get Mountain Quail and Vesper Sparrow
Top my previous single year best (2011-253) I'm at 193 as of 5/12.
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Posted 20 May 2012 - 03:42 PM
http://johnsfibergla...repair.webs.com This is a video he sent me in a PM. It looks like a RWBB to me. . .
ABA list: 295 Latest: Swamp Sparrow
2013: 220
Yard List: 85 Latest: Violet-green Swallow, Tricolored Blackbird
http://www.flickr.co...s/89595711@N08/
2013: 220
Yard List: 85 Latest: Violet-green Swallow, Tricolored Blackbird
http://www.flickr.co...s/89595711@N08/
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Posted 20 May 2012 - 09:14 PM
I agree with JimBob. You'd have a better chance of winning the lottery while simultaneously getting struck by lightening and being eaten by a Polar Bear than seeing a Tricolored Blackbird in Missouri. Please don't take that the wrong way, I am not trying to be insulting I'm just trying to illistrate the odds of that happening. It was probably an aberant Red-winged Blackbird. Can you post the video?
So you're saying there's a chance!
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Posted 20 May 2012 - 11:54 PM
So you're saying there's a chance!
Yes.
New Year's Resolutions:
Get my lifelist to 300 (currently 293)
Finally get Mountain Quail and Vesper Sparrow
Top my previous single year best (2011-253) I'm at 193 as of 5/12.
Latest Lifer(s):Harris's Sparrow, Oka Ponds, Campbell, CA, 1/1/13
Favorite Recent Bird(s):Yellow-breasted Chat, Knights Ferry Rec Area, Knights Ferry, CA, 5/20/13; Blue-winged Teal (Pair), Peregrine Falcon, Sanderling (3),Franklin's Gull (9), Modesto Wastewater Treatment Facility, Modesto, CA, 5/12/13, MacGillivray's Warber, Adair Rd., Modesto, CA, 5/5/13, Long-eared Owl, Mercy Hot Springs, Fresno County, CA, 4/29/13, Lawrwnce's Goldfinch, Panoche Shool, San Benito County, CA, 4/29/13,Lawrwnce's Goldfinch, McHenry Rec Area, Escalon, CA, 4/21/13, Snowy Plover, Modesto Water Treatment Plant, Modesto, CA, 4/14/13, Blue-winged Teal, Redhead, San Luis NWR, Merced County, CA, 3/11/13, Eurasian Wigeon, American Bittern, Santa Fe Grade Rd., Merced County,, CA, 3/9/13
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Posted 21 May 2012 - 01:35 PM
You'd have a better chance of winning the lottery while simultaneously getting struck by lightening and being eaten by a Polar Bear than seeing a Tricolored Blackbird in Missouri.
LOL!!! I can't "like" it because I "liked" so many other things, but that's sooo funny!
ABA list: 295 Latest: Swamp Sparrow
2013: 220
Yard List: 85 Latest: Violet-green Swallow, Tricolored Blackbird
http://www.flickr.co...s/89595711@N08/
2013: 220
Yard List: 85 Latest: Violet-green Swallow, Tricolored Blackbird
http://www.flickr.co...s/89595711@N08/
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Posted 21 May 2012 - 04:42 PM
I've got a nesting population of Tricoloreds a half a mile from my house. I didn't realize they were on such a decline.
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Posted 21 May 2012 - 07:13 PM
One of the main reasons for the decline is that the birds often nest in hay fields. Many farmers harvest their fields right at the height of the breeding season, wiping out an entire generation of fledglings. Natural forces can wipe out a colony as well though. Two colonies in Merced County were cleaned out last year when Cattle Egrets discovered how easy it was to get a meal there. Because the Trikes nest so close together the egrets learned that they could stand in one spot and eat all the chicks from several nests without moving. It only took a few days at each colony for the egrets too eat every single chick.
New Year's Resolutions:
Get my lifelist to 300 (currently 293)
Finally get Mountain Quail and Vesper Sparrow
Top my previous single year best (2011-253) I'm at 193 as of 5/12.
Latest Lifer(s):Harris's Sparrow, Oka Ponds, Campbell, CA, 1/1/13
Favorite Recent Bird(s):Yellow-breasted Chat, Knights Ferry Rec Area, Knights Ferry, CA, 5/20/13; Blue-winged Teal (Pair), Peregrine Falcon, Sanderling (3),Franklin's Gull (9), Modesto Wastewater Treatment Facility, Modesto, CA, 5/12/13, MacGillivray's Warber, Adair Rd., Modesto, CA, 5/5/13, Long-eared Owl, Mercy Hot Springs, Fresno County, CA, 4/29/13, Lawrwnce's Goldfinch, Panoche Shool, San Benito County, CA, 4/29/13,Lawrwnce's Goldfinch, McHenry Rec Area, Escalon, CA, 4/21/13, Snowy Plover, Modesto Water Treatment Plant, Modesto, CA, 4/14/13, Blue-winged Teal, Redhead, San Luis NWR, Merced County, CA, 3/11/13, Eurasian Wigeon, American Bittern, Santa Fe Grade Rd., Merced County,, CA, 3/9/13
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