[TN-Bird] forward from Bob Sargent
- From: Charlie <cmmbirds@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rubythroat@xxxxxxx, TN-Bird <TN-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 17:39:19 -0800 (PST)
Hi Folks,
Bob asked me to post this. I guess he's having problems?
Charlie
Charlie
> Can you help me with this. It failed to get posted. Thanks amigo.
> Bob Sargent
> *************************************
> Mr. Thornton, Charlie and TnBirders
> This discussion has been over-done here on Tennessee Birds in the
> past.
>
> As a long time bander, I would like to have Mr. Thornton as my
> personal guest at my home where I have banded some 10,000
Ruby-throated (11 hummers died in 15 years), or come visit with us at
our very public banding station at Fort Morgan, Alabama where we band
about 5,000 passerines annually and share the birds with over 6,000
guests each year. Of approximately 1200 wintering hummingbirds of a
dozen species that I have banded, I have had two deaths occur. One
had a severe bill lesion and the other just simply died (cause
> unknown). I think that this rate would be pretty much the same for
> most of the fine bird banders that I know.
>
> Mr. Thornton may call me at 205-681-2888 and I will try to answer
> some of his questions regarding bird banding. I respect his
opinion, but would like the opportunity to present another view of
why we band birds, and to hopefully quiet some of his fears regarding
this type of research.
>
> Mr. Wallace Coffey: I will not open up this discussion again on
> Tennessee Birds.
>
> Respectfully
> Bob Sargent, President
> The Hummer/Bird Study Group, Inc. (non-profit)
>
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Charlie Muise, Senior Naturalist
Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont
Townsend, TN lat 35 deg, 38'23" long 83 deg, 41'22"
"Up, Sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough"
- Ben Frankline, Poor Richard's Almanac
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