[TN-Bird] Nashville- Piping Plover update
- From: "Scott Somershoe" <Scott.Somershoe@xxxxxx>
- To: "TN-birds" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:17:07 -0500
It took a while for me to get around to making contact with the Piping Plover
researchers in order to find out details on the color banded Piping Plover that
spent the day on Old Hickory Lake on 20 Apr 2011.
The banded bird was banded as a chick on June 18th, 2001 at Lake Diefenbaker,
Saskatchewan (yes, 2001!!). The bird lost a blue color band at some point. We
probably would have never got individual identification of the bird without Ed
Schneider's photos of the aluminum USGS band, which yielded 7 of the 9 band
numbers! Thanks Ed!
One-third of all the Piping Plovers in world nest at Lake Diefenbaker. There
is extensive research and monitoring of Piping Plovers at this location.
The researchers were very excited to get information on location for spring
stopover of Piping Plovers, especially a known individual bird! Little is
known about inland stopover of Piping Plovers in spring. They were also very
curious about having two birds clearly migrating north together as apparently
that is unexpected.
Cheers,
Scott Somershoe
State Ornithologist
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
P.O. Box 40747
Nashville, TN 37204
615-781-6653 (o)
www.tnwatchablewildlife.org
www.pbase.com/shoeman
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