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From: rising@utzoo.uucp (Jim Rising)
Subject: Point Pelee Notes
Message-ID: <1988May16.184907.23146@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
Date: Mon, 16 May 88 18:49:07 GMT

Back from a week-nd at Point Pelee.  I got 152 species--not particularly
good.  TThe migration is "uneven".  Myrtles are still here in pretty good
numbers, but Blackpolls are coming in.  I managed only 25 species of 
warblers, and didn't get Golden-winged, Parula, Pine, Prairie, Palm (!),
Cerulean, and Mourning of the more-or-less regular ones.  There were an
unusually large number of sightings of Yellow-throated Warblers this spring,
and a Blue Grosbeak or two were around (I saw neither).  Some of the most
exciting birds were shorebirds.  With a little digging you could get
Curlew Sandpiper (coming into breeding plumage) and a breeding Ruff in the
same day.  Also Hudsonian Godwits (3), Wilson's Phalarope, and most of 
the common species.  A lot of stuff is yet to come through.

--Jim Rising
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Name:   Jim Rising
Mail:   Dept. Zoology, Univ. Toronto
        Toronto, Ontario, Canada    M5S 1A1
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