From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Mon Oct 21 10:14:26 2002 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g9LHAg1H021594 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:10:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g9LHA5hh021551 for <[[email protected]]>; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:10:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0240.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.240] helo=209.179.198.240) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 183fpi-0004Rq-00; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:55:14 -0700 Date: 21 Oct 2002 09:55:11 -0700 Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> From: Les Chibana <[[email protected]]> X-Mailer: QuickMail Pro 2.1 (Mac) X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id g9LHA5hh021551 Subject: [SBB] Re: Sunday birds X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b3+ Precedence: list Cc: Judy Breckling <[[email protected]]>, South Bay Birding <[[email protected]]> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: South Bay Birding List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: [[email protected]] Sender: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Errors-To: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] According to Pyle's "Identification Guide to North American Birds", 1997, the subspecies of American Pipit, Anthus rubescens, that breeds in western to central Alaska to the western North West Territories is geophilus, and it winters from southern British Columbia through California to western Texas. It is part of the "buff-bellied" group which are brownish with black legs. The subspecies, alticola, breeds from northeast Oregon through Montana, to eastern California through New Mexico; it winters in Arizona. It is in the "western montane" group which are pale grayish with black legs. Switching to Grinnell and Miller, 1944, alticola was considered a rare winter visitant. They identified pacificus as the abundant winter visitant. But this was when the American Pipit was the Water Pipit [Anthus spinoletta], and before geophilus was split from, I assume, pacificus. So, it appears that the Sierra Nevada-breeding subspecies is not the ones that winter locally. Les -- Les Chibana BirdNUTZ(TM) - Ornigasmic Birding em <[[email protected]]> - web ph 650-949-4335 - fx 650-949-4137 snailmail: SR 2, Box 335, La Honda CA 94020 On Monday, October 21, 2002 8:28 AM, Jim Yurchenco <[[email protected]]> wrote: >Amy and I spent Sunday, Oct. 20 at Henry Coe State Park.  Birds >were active and plentiful.  Of interest were numerous >Lawrence's Goldfinches as well as a couple of Red-breasted >Sapsuckers. A late House Wren was unusual. Varied Thrushes >have returned for the winter. A Greater White-fronted Goose was >seen at Kelly Lake, a second park record; this species was >first found at Coe in January of this year.  We also had at >least two American Pipits at Rodeo Pond, a first park record >for this species. Does anyone have any insights as to whether >these birds might be migrants from their nesting grounds in the >Sierra, or birds moving south out of Alaska and western Canada?  >James Yurchenco >[[email protected]](mailto:[[email protected]] > _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. south-bay-birds mailing list ([[email protected]]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://www.plaidworks.com/mailman/options/south-bay-birds/south-bay-birds-archive%40plaidworks.com This email sent to [[email protected]]