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RE: Fwd: Dowitchers

I'll try to answer my question in a roundabout way to say that I know that dowitchers and yellowlegs both winter along the southern coast of California, with the yellow legs pushing as far south as South America and Dowitchers as far south as the Central America. Range maps show both winter ranges to move eastward into southern Texas. The dowitchers actually range further into the interior of California, Arizona and New Mexico than the yellowlegs.

They both eat small aquatic invertebrates, so theymust be finding something out on Salt Creek to munch on. It would be interesting to find out where this flock came from. Are they moving farther into the interior because of the lack of food somewhere? Heavy winter pressure from large populations of these species and others, pushing small groups out to look for food? Or are they just passing through early on migration for some unknown reason?

These are the questions that are burning in my mind!!!!









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"Stephen Peterson" <cllslp@msn.com>

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RE: [BirdTalk] Fwd: Dowitchers

Date:  
Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:51:11 -0700


For that matter, what winter records are there for Greater Yellowlegs?

Stephen










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[BirdTalk] Fwd: Dowitchers

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Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:17:07 -0800 (PST)

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Subject: Dowitchers

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Message: On January 24 Georgene and I observed 2 Dowitchers, almost certainly Long-billed Dowitchers, at the Salt Creek Waterfowl Management area near Tremonton. I am not certain what winter records there are for this species in
Utah, but this seems a bit unusual. They were feeding with about 30 or so Greater Yellow-legs between the Redhead and the Canvasback units.




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