[NatureNS] Tufted Titmouse: our record

Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 16:26:23 -0400
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Brian et al.:

I guess when you've got wings and urges, it's never say never - just 
look at the
lists for Sable and Seal islands, e.g.

Googling indicates that Tufted Titmuse got to Martha's Vineyard some years ago
and is now a resident. Although I didn't find mention of it on Block Island,
and according to "Birds of North Amwerica" it hadn't reached there in 
1995, the
latter doubtless means that it hadn't spread to breed there yet. It's still
colonizing parts of New England.

Cheers, Ian

Quoting Brian Dalzell <aythya@nb.sympatico.ca>:

> Tufted Titmouse is now nesting in New Brunswick, with nest-building 
> and fledged young observed in St. Andrews this year.  Given the great 
> aversion that this species has with over-water crossings  it is a 
> miracle one made it Nova Scotia across the Gulf of Maine back in 
> 1991. Last time I heard, they still had not made it to Block Island, 
> Rhode Island or Marthas Vinyard, Massachusetts, despite these islands 
> being only a few miles offshore.  The one record for the latter 
> location was of cross-breeding with Black-capped Chickadee!   That 
> the species could have done so again (an ocean crossing to NS), and 
> made it all the way to Halifax is nothing short of a miracle.  It is 
> unlikely to get to NS anytime soon overland, as New Brunswick just 
> had its first records east of the Saint John River only last fall.
>
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