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WOSNews 68 Companion August / September 2000

Table of Contents

Finding the Curlew Sandpiper Ruth Sullivan
Night of the Yellow Rail Part 2 Richard Rowlett
Franklin's Gull Nest? Grant Co. Tom Aversa
Tricolored Blackbird Grant Co. Tom Aversa
Olympic Vulture Study Diann MacRae
Photo Gallery Ruth and Patrick Sullivan

 

Web Addresses mentioned

In the Birding News Asian Vulture Die-off Info http://peregrinefund.org/conserv_vulture.html
Cornell Lab of Ornithology http://birds.cornell.edu
Olympic Vulture Study  OVS Home Page http://www.halcyon.com/tvulture/
Report Your Sightings Washington Swan Coalition http://www.swansociety.org
Black Brant Research http://brant.bio.uaf.edu
Band Recoveries Bird Banding Laboratory http://www.pwrc.nbs.gov/bbl/

Photo Gallery

Finding the Curlew Sandpiper
Ruth Sullivan found this Curlew Sandpiper on three different days, August 8, 9, and 11, 2000 near Oysterville, Pacific Co. She braved rainy weather for these photos, documenting one of Washington's rarer shorebird visitors.
The Sullivan's Photo Gallery
Ruth Sullivan snapped these shots of a "Buffle-eye" - presumed hybrid between a Bufflehead, Bucephala albeola, and a Common Goldeneye, B. clangula, on 3/19/2000 from Rustin Way, Tacoma, Pierce Co.
Patrick Sullivan found this male Tufted Duck, Aythya fuligula, on 3/25/2000 at Bowerman Basin, Grays Harbor Co.
Ruth Sullivan photographed this Northern Saw-whet Owl, Aegolius acadicus, in Rook Park, Walla Walla, Walla Walla Co., on 2/21/2000.
Ruth Sullivan found this Burrowing Owl, Athene cunicularia, at the Pasco Airport, Frankin Co., 2/13/2000
Patrick Sullivan photographed this Lesser Black-backed Gull, Larus fuscus, at the Walla Walla delta, 2/12/2000

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