Hello birders,
Lots of talk about Juncos, if you are not familiar with The Junco Project, juncoproject.org, you might want to look at the website. Chocked full of information ... might not specifically answer Ohio's junco questions, but if you are curious about the junco, junco evolution and the history of studying juncos ... hit the Video selection and there are several videos from which to choose. One video in particular, the juncos that are now nesting in San Diego, CA from a population 60+ miles away is fascinating. Lots of good science.
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From: "Lindway Jim" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "ohio-birds" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, July 3, 2015 11:05:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Ohio-birds] More on Ohio's unique nesting Juncos
Another noted area of Junco nesting in northern Summit county is located in the CVNP at the Ledges rock outcroppings just south of the Happy Days center on route 303.
Jim L.
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On Fri, 7/3/15, Haans Petruschke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Subject: [Ohio-birds] More on Ohio's unique nesting Juncos
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Friday, July 3, 2015, 6:48 AM
Hi,
In June I posted about unique vocalizations among some of
our nesting Junco
population. Lisa Rainsong, became interested in this,
and began doing high
quality recordings of the birds in my area (Gildersleeve
mountain in
Kirtland) and in other locations in Lake and Geauga
counties. She has done
a blog post which can be found here:
http://listeninginnature.blogspot.com/2015/07/creative-ornamentation.html
Additionally, Lisa was contacted by a licensed bird bander
who works in
Pepper Pike, (Eastern Cuyahoga County), who bands
fledgling Juncos every
year, and has noted that some of these birds winter over.
So it appears that at least some of our breeding population
not only
has vocalizations not found elsewhere, and unique choices of
nest
locations, (hanging baskets and in shelters), but is
also non
migratory. Combine
this with the very very small (probably <100 individuals)
mid 20th century
breeding population and the explosion in the breeding
population over the
past 25 years and we have a very interesting situation.
While confined to a small range in parts of just 5 counties,
Juncos have
become very common to abundant nesters in this area. It is
encouraging that
many people who live in the area are taking a greater
interest in this
population and beginning to appreciate it for being unusual,
and different,
in multiple ways from the rest of the Junco population in
North America.
Haans
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