Re: [SBB] Black terns

[Al Eisner <[[email protected]]>]

On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:

> Because I was curious, I spent some time looking at the list archive
> -- I vaguely remember a discussion on the list a few years back about
> whether our population of skimmers was self-sustained and that there
> was some thought it was being supplied from southern california.
>
> I didn't find that discussion, but I did find a few previous mentions
> of Black Skimmer chicks, one in mid july 2003, and one in early
> August, 2000, both in the shoreline area (there are probably others,
> don't take that as complete). The A16 chicks seem to be the first on
> the list not at Shoreline, FWIW, and we've also had some discussion
> this season about a possible nest on the island at Shoreline lake.

There have been multi-year reports of skimmer chicks at both salt ponds
AB2 and A16 in the past.  I don't know what fraction of these young
actually fledged.  Probably Bill Bousman has complete county information
somewhere.  There's also been confirmed nesting north of the Dumbarton
Bridge in San mateo County, and I suspect also in Alameda Co. (although
I have no details).
 								Al

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