Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 03:02:09 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Phil Davis Subject: Re: Common Snipe in DC In-Reply-To: <1e2.4602b25.2ba2d633@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Hi Marshall: Concur. We discussed this on MD Osprey earlier, back in December, just before the Christmas Counts, including the records you mentioned. You may have been out of the country at the time. I'll forward my December email to you. It also contained some good reference web sites. Thanks. Phil At 01:52 03/14/2003 -0500, you wrote: >Phil, > >If we're going to be "splitting" hairs (snipes?), then I would point out that >Common Snipe (G. gallinago) is also known from a Labrador specimen in Dec >1928 and also has a record from Bermuda. If it is identifiable in the field >(it is not easy - Sibley gives some guidance on this, and there is a British >Birds article dealing with a Wilson's Snipe on the Isles of Scilly), then >Marylanders and DCers should watch for it. > >Best, > >Marshall > > > All: > > > > Remember, they were split this year ... it's now "Wilson's Snipe" > > (Gallinago delicata) in most of North America ... Common Snipe (gallinago > > gallinago) is now the Eurasian form and in North America has been found > > only in the western Aleutians and Bering Sea islands of Alaska. > > > > Phil > > > > >*********************** >Marshall Iliff >miliff@aol.com >Irvine, CA >************************ > >======================================================================= >To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com >with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey >======================================================================= ================================== 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================