Date:         Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:43:38 -0800
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From:         Charlie <cmmbirds@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Ross's Goose Day?
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Phil,

Any excuse to get out and bird as part of an
organized effort sounds good to me!

Charlie

--- Phil Davis <PDavis@IX.NETCOM.COM> wrote:
> For those MD_Ospreyians that don't subscribe to
> Birdchat, there have been
> several message threads on that listserver
> dealing with Ross's Geese ID and
> conservation issues.  No need to rehash those
> issues here, but it made me
> wonder, how many Ross's Geese winter in
> Maryland; how many are "blue morph"
> Ross's Geese (quite rare); and how many hybrid
> Ross's x Snow Geese are
> there, IF any?  Based on the reports I saw this
> winter, I'd probably take a
> stab at 6-10 Ross's on the Eastern Shore.
> Anyone have a better or more
> educated guess?
>
> This made me think of the Maryland (and later
> Mid-Atlantic) Gull Days that
> several Maryland birders (Rick Blom and Gene
> Scarpulla, maybe?) organized,
> several years ago--the objective being to count
> the number of wintering
> gulls and particularly the number of unusual
> gulls (Glaucous,
> Iceland/Thayer's/Kumlein's, California, Lesser
> BB, Laughers, Franklin's
> Ivory, Ross's [... just kidding], etc.
>
> So, would it serve any ornithological purpose
> to organize a "Ross's Goose
> Day" next winter?  We could divide up the
> coverage of the usual Goose
> haunts (Blackwater, Hurlock, Snow Hill, Starr,
> etc.) and scour the flocks
> to see what we come up with.
>
> Any merit?  Any interest?
>
> Phil
>
>
>
>
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> Phil Davis      Davidsonville, Maryland     USA
>                 mailto:PDavis@ix.netcom.com
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Charlie Muise, Naturalist
Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary
Maryland, USA

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