[NatureNS] belted kingfisher story

From: "Roland McCormick" <roland.mccormick@ns.sympatico.ca>
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Two questions about the kingfishers:
(1)  Are kingfishers ever seen in flocks, or are they always seen one at a 
time?
(2) Are they ever seen away from the ocean, a lake, or a good sized body of 
water?
(3)  They seem to be found all over NS but never in large numbers anywhere. 
I tend to agree with Murray.

Roland.
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From: "David & Alison Webster" <dwebster@glinx.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: [NatureNS] belted kingfisher story


> Hi Murray & All,            Jan 2, 2008
>    I agree one must be wary of accepting any measure of a wild population 
> as a fact and +- figures convey no information if the variance measure 
> (e.g. standard deviation, standard error, 95% confidence limits) is not 
> specified.
>
>    But-- the two estimates, obtained apparently by somewhat different 
> methods, of 16,000 KF (-4.67 % trend over 40 years) as compared to 4,100 
> pairs (no change over 4 centuries) are remarkably similar. Note also that 
> no change over 400 years does not conflict with a modest decline over 40 
> years. This of course does not demonstrate that either of these estimates 
> is close to being realistic.
>
>    But with respect to your 50 pairs in three counties, have you really 
> bushwacked every potential lake edge, pond, run and stillwater in these 
> three counties ? If not then could there be 100, or 1000 or 3000 pairs 
> that you have not encountered ?
>
> A belated Happy New Year, Dave Webster, Kentville
>
> dowitcher wrote:
>
>> reading all the stuff on the thousands of belted
>>
>>  kingfishers in nova scotia,i find it very hard to believe the stats.
>>
>>   a matter of fack i dont.
>>
>>  i done a lot of birding in yarmouth ,digby and shelburne counties over 
>> the years and i know where 99 .9 per cent
>>
>>  of them are each year.
>>
>>  we at down and counted them up today and could not come up with 50 pair 
>> for the three counties total.
>>
>>    now if you was to believe those stats i read about
>>
>> they must be hanging like grapes every where else.
>>
>>    brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
>>
>> Murray R Newell
>>   Cape Sable Island
>>     Nova Scotia
>>
>
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