Re: [MDOsprey] White Pelican in DC (and sometimes MD)

Phil Davis (pdavis@ix.netcom.com)
Tue, 17 Aug 1999 21:50:00 -0400


All -

American White Pelican is a "reviewable" species in MD and DC.  This bird 
would be a DC first record !!!

Be sure to note and describe the secondaries pattern ... this is necessary 
to separate American White Pelican from theoretical escapees, like 
Dalmatian Pelican.

Thanks.

Phil


At 03:39 PM 08/17/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi all--
>
>Barry called me at work today, he went down to Hunting Creek, Old Town etc.
>to look for shorebirds and black terns.
>
>At about 10 am he saw (instead) a White Pelican off Old Town!! He called me to
>put it up on MDosprey but my UMDD access was down -- argghh! So now it is up,
>and now you know.
>
>It is an American White Pelican, and when he first saw it, it was almost
>certainly in DC waters, but a friend who saw it sometime later thinks it had
>drifted downstream to MD waters. Two state ticks in one!
>
>Anyway, Rob Hilton told me that Fred Fallon also saw this bird at about
>the same time, from the MD side. Barry actually got his best views from
>Jones Point, Old Town being bad re the sun in the morning.
>
>Hope it sticks around so that I can see it too...
>
>Cheers,
>Gail Mackiernan

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