MD Osprey:

Speaking of cormorants ... During last season's Deadliest Catch 
television series on Alaskan crab fishing, a bird landed on one of 
the boats and was "rehabilitated" for a day or so. Although the crew 
identified it as a "Freshwater Cormorant" it was actually an immature 
Red-necked Grebe!

(The year before, I had written the producer and summarized for him 
the US birdwatching statistics and suggested that they shouldn't just 
ignore all of those thousands of seabirds that follow the crab boats. 
Also last season, while watching an episode, I said to Barbara, 
"What's that?" We stopped the DVR and backed it up in slow motion and 
there, crossing the bow of the ship, in glorious detail, was a first 
year Short-tailed Albatross, the rarest Albatross species in the world!)

Ooops ... just realized this has nothing to do with MD ... for the 
past two days, we've had Indigo Buntings on our feeders here in 
Davidsonville ...

Phil



At 08:43 04/27/2009, Rick Sussman wrote:
>Hi Janet,
>  As you may know I collect birding checklists. Someone gave me  one years
>ago from Sandy Point State Park. It was a mimeographed copy of their
>checklist (remember the "purple" ink?) and the only reason I kept it 
>was because
>it listed "Double-breasted Cormorant" as a species. I haven't been to the
>park  that often, but when I do, I look for those birds. I'm curious to see
>what they  look like...
>
>
>In a message dated 4/26/2009 10:53:40 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
>On page  3 of the Metro section in Sunday's Washington Post, the following
>item  appeared in the "Animal Watch" feature. Note the alleged species of
>the
>bird involved:
>
>"Arlington police called animal control about a bird  lying injured at the
>roadside. Animal control officers identified it as a  double breasted
>cormorant, a type of seabird. A nearby fisherman said the  bird had swooped
>and stolen a fish off his line and then ended up on the  sidewalk by the
>street. It appeared that it had flown into an overpass. An  officer took
>the bird to the shelter. It was transferred to a wildlife  rehabilitator, who
>will care for it until it is ready for  release."

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