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Index of Subjects Hi Richard and all, This the Birder's World homepage where you can browse most of the magazine and save links to any section http://www.birdersworld.com/ If you want to contribute to the forum(discussion groups) you have to become a member. The form you have to fill out starts on the home page. There is no charge or queries on personal information. I haven't tried to post a photo yet so I don't know what the drill is for that. Hans ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Stern" <sternrichard@gmail.com> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 5:56 PM Subject: Re: [NatureNS] The Remarkable Northern Wheatear, and Cranes > Hi, > > Neat article in Birder's World. But I also noticed the 3rd article, > about birds caught in the DMZ in Korea. There is a NS connection, in > that George Archibald, a remarkable Nova Scotian who runs the > International Crane Foundation in Wisconsin, has been instrumental in > maintaining habitat and helping to conserve Siberian and White-naped > Cranes there. > > And - that appears to be a free, full text, on-line edition of the > magazine. Is that normally available, or did you scan this particular > edition into your computer? > > Richard > > On 1/18/07, Hans Toom <Htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca> wrote: >> >> >> Hi all, >> >> >> Last year was memorable for the Northern Wheatear with 12 birds reported >> in >> 10 Nova Scotia locations. >> >> >> >> This diminutive thrush nests on the tundra or the wind swept hills and >> short >> grasslands of our north, especially on Baffin Island. There are two >> distinct continental populations, the western population of western >> Canada >> and Alaska and the eastern population of eastern Canada and Greenland. >> These >> two populations do not appear to overlap. The western group migrates to >> the >> west and then southwest. It is believed that the eastern population >> migrates east through Greenland and Europe and then southward to Africa >> where they over-winter. If this migration pattern theory is correct then >> strong northerly winds would be the culprit wind that drives this bird >> into >> our province in the fall. >> >> >> >> Research by Dutch scientist Kaspert Thorup and his colleagues have an >> alternate explanation. They theorize that the Northern Wheatear's >> migration >> route is not through Europe but directly from their eastern Canada and >> Greenland nesting grounds across the Atlantic to Africa, a distance of >> 4000km. In this case the birds that show up in Europe are off course and >> driven there by south-westerly and westerly winds and the birds that >> arrive >> in southern Canada in our fall are driven here not by northerly winds as >> currently believed but by easterly or north easterly winds. >> >> >> >> A remarkable bird, indeed! >> >> >> >> Here's the text of the article from Birder's World: >> http://www.birdersworld.com/brd/default.aspx?c=a&id=822 >> >> >> >> OK, so how cold has it been? Here's two photos from yesterday morning at >> Portuguese Cove: >> http://www.hanstoom.com/Highlights/Highlights15.html >> >> >> >> Hans >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________________________ >> Hans Toom >> E-mail: htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca >> Migration Count: http://hanstoom.com/NAMC/Index.html >> Nature Website: http://hanstoom.com >> _____________________________________________________________ > > > -- > ################# > Richard Stern, > 317 Middle Dyke Rd., > RR#1 Port Williams, > NS, Canada B0P 1T0 > > rbstern@ns.sympatico.ca > rbstern@xcountry.tv > sternrichard@gmail.com > ################### >
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