Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 21:13:09 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Phil Davis Subject: Re: RED CROSSBILL in Soldiers Delight In-Reply-To: <053001bfc0c3$c90aff00$c8290318@CC512599A> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Joe / Carol / all - It would be great to get audio recordings of these birds. Red Crossbills are likely to be split into as many as seven species in the future ... and vocalization is the best way to separate them. If anyone can capture the vocalizations on tape, Michael O'Brien can analyze the tapes. FYI. Here's the authoritative web site for this species group, including samples of the calls ... http://research.amnh.org/ornithology/crossbills/ Phil At 08:22 AM 05/18/2000 -0400, Joe & Carol McDaniel wrote: >Small flock of about 15 RED CROSSBILL -- mixed males and females -- in >Soldiers Delight this morning at 7:45 AM. Other sightings included PRAIRIE >WARBLER and HOODED WARBLER. ================================== Phil Davis Davidsonville, Maryland USA mailto:PDavis@ix.netcom.com ================================== ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================