Date:         Thu, 13 Jan 2000 07:15:53 -0500
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From:         Fran Saunders <fcsaunders@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
Subject:      (Fwd) Re: Bewick's Wren in WV
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This is from the NE PIF discussion list, but I thought it would be of
interest:

The following is a forwarded message that Ron Canterbury posted to WV Bird
listserve -- it's been flying around the internet all afternoon.  This is
indeed great news!  I knew that if there were any of these critters lurking
in the Appalachian underbrush, Ron would be the one to dig one up.
Hopefully  Ron will post something himself, describing habitat,
circumstances, etc., but for now lets congratulate him for rediscovering
one of the rarest and highest priority birds of the Eastern U.S.

KEN



Ron Canterbury <canterburyr@concord.edu> on 01/12/2000 05:34:37 PM

To:   Audubon birding discussion for WV <WV-BIRD@LIST.AUDUBON.ORG
cc:   chuck_hunter@mail.fws.gov

Subject:  Bewick's Wren in WV


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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Fran Saunders
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Maryland Ornithological Society
Silver Spring, Maryland
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