To support your post.......A trip to Mispillion this past Sunday  in the 
pouring rain was very encouraging.   As thousands of Red Knots,  and semi- 
palm 's, where making the beach "walk".  It just got  better when we noticed 
several kildeer in a very large field between Slaughter  Beach and Mispillion. 
 Stopped the car for a closer look and got a  show of hundreds of Black 
Bellied Plovers, just standing around in the field as  far as the bi'n and 
scope could see.  Port Mahan had several thousand  Ruddy Turnstones and Semi's . 
 Yes, we surely were drenched  but was  worth every minute.    
 
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In a message dated 5/23/2009 12:01:19 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
 writes:

Female  orioles do indeed sing. Recent studies have shown that in some
(tropical)  oriole species females actually sing more frequently  than
males.

Frode Jacobsen
Windsor Mill, Md  21244



> The number I heard from the woman in the nature  center was about 20,000
> total, with about 4-5,000 at Mispillion during  Thursday's flyover count.
>
> Closer to home, I heard a  yellow-green Orchard Oriole singing the other
> day,
> but it  lacked the black bib my field guide says is characteristic of
>  first-spring males. Do female orioles sing?
>
> Pat  Valdata
> Elkton.  MD
>
>


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