Anyone on the list can come/see/listen to the quasi-resident pair of
pileateds that live and thrive right here on our 10 wooded acres in
the Sonoma Valley. Best times early morning to around noon. We
see/hear them nearly every day and have for the past two years. One
of the pair was working on a pole right outside my office window
today. Late PM around dusk the great horned owls (2 nesting pairs in
a remarkably small habitat) begin chorusing across the little arroyo
into which our house is nestled.
Bernie
>Below is the latest message by David Sibley re the Ivory Billed
>woodpecker. I have sent this also to the Naturerecordist list because I
>think there are probably acres of recordings of Pileated Wodpeckers
>taking off out there in peoples archives. I think I might even have
>one. If not those of us who are out with parabolas in our hands can
>probably gather some information on the takeoff wing speed rather
>quickly. Any suggestions on where it should be sent?
>
>Those of you on naturerecordist who want to follow what has happened so
>far in this discussion can find the posts on Silers Birding on the Web
>page ( http://birdingonthe.net/ ) Go to mailing lists -> Regional
>Speciality. Scroll down the page to the next to the last group called
>"World and Elsewhere" and click the link in the column on the far right
>called called ID-Frontiers. Good links to the Sibley paper and the
>rebuttal by the folks at Cornel are there as well as SOMs - more
>material which supports the conclusions of the papers.
>
>Barb Beck
>Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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