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From: cwilliamson@pimacc.pima.edu
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: re: Tuffed Duck last year in CA
Message-ID: <1991May20.000309.6080@pimacc.pima.edu>
Date: 20 May 91 07:03:09 GMT
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TO: Chuck Williamson
FROM: Joe Morlan
SUBJECT: Tufted Duck
                                                                
 JS> On the subject of late rare bird reports.  I'm curious just how rare
 JS> tufted duck is in California.  I was there last march (that's march
 JS> of 1990 :-), and while wandering through Golden Gate Park (the long
 JS> thin one with all the lakes?) I positively id'ed a pair - male and
 JS> female - in the donut shaped boating lake.  They were in a small
 JS> flock of ring-necked ducks, and came up to me begging for handouts.
 JS> I assumed that this was unusual, but not extremely so.  I've usually
 JS> had bad luck spotting anything but the most common birds.  Lately
 JS> though I've been reading several CA birding books (we're going again
 JS> in July) and the tufted duck is reported in "one was seen in 1979..."
 JS> terms, which makes me think my sighting was a lot more unusual.

A male Tufted Duck was seen at Stowe Lake during the period you describe.  The
female is probably the same individual seen with the male at the old Sutro Bath
ruins.

-= Joe Morlan =-  Saturday, May 18, 1991 at 10:47 am, Albany, CA 
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