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| Reply To: | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 12 Jun 2007 11:17:16 -0400389_us-ascii Hello everyone! First off, I would like to thank everyone who has been atlasing so far this summer. To date, we're just shy of the 60,000 observation mark! This is huge and this only represents observations submitted electronically. We still have a large file of hardcopy data submissions that were sent to us on field cards that haven't been entered yet. [...]38_12Jun200711:17: [log in to unmask] |
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Had the good fortune of witnessing some intriguing breeding behavior this
weekend, not sure how many folks get to see it or notice it when they do.
Around dusk I saw nighthawks "peenting" up in the sky over town and then
flying far up and swooping back down to almost the top of a flat-topped
building where rocketed back up again accompanied by a 'roar' of the
primaries as it broke the dive. Apparently over a female on the roof top.
It is an amazing sound and carries quite a distance. Bent's life histories
has great accounts of this behavior in its volume 1 on cuckoos, goatsuckers,
hummingbirds and their allies.
Keep your eyes and hears open out there and don't forget to send in that
breeding behavior to Aaron Boone.
Pete
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Pete Whan
Dir. of Community-based Conservation
The Nature Conservancy
Edge of Appalachia Preserve
3223 Waggoner Riffle Rd.
West Union, OH 45693
Ph. 937-544-2188
fax same
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