Calbirders, The MBB listserv is out of sorts so I thought I'd try to get the word out via Calbird, Yesterday morning Santa Cruz County's 2nd county record of...
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toddamcgrath
Sep 3, 2007 2:03 pm
Birders: The annual LAAS Tropicbird trip is once again sold out, but there are still spaces remaining on our October 20th trip around and past the northern...
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Joe Devine
mojoedevine
Sep 3, 2007 6:09 pm
Yesterday (9/2) my wife & I went to Struve Slough in Watsonville, Ca. We found a group from Monterey on field trip. A BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER & BAIRD'S...
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Kathryn Parker
kath16475
Sep 3, 2007 9:42 pm
This morning at 9, I saw the continuing BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER and the STILT SANDPIPER at Struve Slough in Watsonville, Santa Cruz Co. I followed the...
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vireoman2004
lbviman
Sep 4, 2007 12:35 am
An adult ARCTIC TERN has been present at Coal Oil Point Reserve in Goleta (Santa Barbara County) since at least as early as Sunday (02 Sep 2007). It was there...
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Debra Shearwater
shearwaterjo...
Sep 4, 2007 2:55 am
HI, Birders, Today in San Benito County, I found a female AMERICAN REDSTART and a female BLACK AND WHITE WARBLER, both on private property. They were with a...
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vireoman2004
lbviman
Sep 4, 2007 5:22 am
I've added 4 photos of Goleta CA ARCTIC TERN adult to the Gulls/Terns folder. Photos made 03 September 2007 of bird found by others on 02 Sept 07. The bird...
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Floyd Hayes
floyd_hayes
Sep 6, 2007 12:16 am
How widespread in CA is African Collared-Dove (aka Ringed Turtle-Dove)? Multiple African Collared-Doves and Eurasian Collared-Doves showed up around the same ...
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Steve Hampton
tertial
Sep 6, 2007 7:51 pm
Floyd, I think most consider the African Collared-Dove and the Ringed Turtle-Dove to be distinct species, so really there are three similar species we are...
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Bruce Deuel
bdeuel2
Sep 6, 2007 7:57 pm
The A.O.U. (47th supplement to the checklist, 2006) has decreed that risoria IS roseogrisea. Cheers, Bruce Deuel Redding 33 ... Floyd, I think most consider...
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Alvaro Jaramillo
scelorchilus
Sep 6, 2007 8:41 pm
Steve It is confusing, but risoria (Ringed Turtle-Dove) is considered a domesticated form or roseogrisea (African Collared-Dove). So it is akin to saying...
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Kimball Garrett
kimballgarrett
Sep 6, 2007 9:16 pm
Floyd (and Steve, Bruce, Alvaro, et al.): Thank you, Bruce, for clearing up the taxonomy. "Ringed Turtle-Dove" is indeed merely the domesticated form of...
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Janet Leonard
cossypha
Sep 6, 2007 11:08 pm
FYI- The species designation for domestic animals, probably, I think, goes back to Linnaeus who was not thinking in evolutionary terms, merely sorting things...
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Alvaro Jaramillo
scelorchilus
Sep 7, 2007 3:31 am
Kimball et al. Believe it or not I was thinking of sending a note along the same lines as what you wrote to ID frontiers, but now that the conversation is on...
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Janet Leonard
cossypha
Sep 7, 2007 4:07 am
Al- If a population is rapidly expanding, it must by definition be experiencing relatively low natural selection because more young survive and reproduce than...
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Michael Evans
earthsd
Sep 7, 2007 4:44 am
- San Diego, CA RBA [RARE BIRD ALERT] * California * San Diego * September 6,2007 * CASD 9.6.07 - Birds mentioned: ____________________ *Cory's Shearwater ...
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Adam Winer
adam_winerus
Sep 7, 2007 4:44 am
We've veered far off the e-mail lists here, but that assertion is mathematically false. Differential survival rates of genotypes would have a huge impact on...
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Chet ogan
chet_ogan
Sep 7, 2007 4:56 am
Floyd, I found breeding Eurasian Collared Dove in 2006 in Humboldt County, to my recollection they were first found at a feed and grain store in Eureka in...
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Alvaro Jaramillo
scelorchilus
Sep 7, 2007 6:05 am
Adam I know exactly what you mean, this is why the time argument is the one that I am most confident in. Even with moderate selection against the pale birds,...
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Janet Leonard
cossypha
Sep 7, 2007 6:23 am
Adam, Al et al. Relative reproductive success is a measure of natural selection; i.e. evolution through natural selection is measured as differential...
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Rusty Scalf
rfs_berkeley
Sep 7, 2007 6:57 am
... It seems that these Doves have leap-frogged the San Francisco Basin. I was in Lee Vining recently and would estimate the Collared/Mourning ratio at about 3...
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dsuddjian@...
Sep 7, 2007 2:44 pm
In a message dated 9/6/2007 11:57:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time, rfs_berkeley@... writes: If they're that common on the San Mateo Coast, I wonder why this...
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Kimball Garrett
kimballgarrett
Sep 7, 2007 4:44 pm
Birders, I've just received a second-hand message that Susan Steele found an Arctic Warbler this morning (Friday, 7 September) at the Silver Saddle Resort at...
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Floyd Hayes
floyd_hayes
Sep 7, 2007 6:01 pm
I don't doubt that there are pale Eurasian Collared-Doves resembling African Collared-Doves, but I was familiar with both of these species from the Caribbean...
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john small
joutandabout
Sep 7, 2007 7:55 pm
Hi birders, I don't know if anyone's aware, but the Southern California bird box is back in operation. Thank You John Small Torrance, CA ... Boardwalk for...
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Bob Miller
swbirder
Sep 7, 2007 8:10 pm
Talk about "waiting with baited breath"! Surely the mongrel hordes are arriving on site by now. Hmmm, even if there were word right now..... it is just...
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Kimball Garrett
kimballgarrett
Sep 7, 2007 9:57 pm
[Note: I'm not the listowner, but it's my opinion that Streptopelia doves are part of the California avifauna, and therefore fair game for discussion on this...
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Bob Steele
rjsteele7
Sep 7, 2007 10:54 pm
Birders, Here are a few images of the Arctic Warbler that Susan found today. As of 2 PM the bird was still being seen near the large lake. Its most often ...
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aguillard2469
Sep 7, 2007 11:34 pm
As Listowner, I am receiving many E-mails from folks who are upset over this lateset thread, and wanting me to do something about it. So here it is. Eurasian...
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Debra Shearwater
shearwaterjo...
Sep 8, 2007 7:35 am
Hello, Seabirders, By any stretch of the imagination, today's Shearwater Journey's pelagic trip from Bodega Bay was spectacular, exceeding all expectations...
