I’ve got people who have taken up my offer on my $2000 hopefully we will
get enough for the trip without my having
To spend too much.you can be on list as backup you will have to register @
rock jumper bird tour Brazil October 4=11. $ 800 deposit by end of this
month which will be refunded if you don’t go

Robert tell them not to cancel
money is nothing
i did one of those trips

From: “Robert Kiernan photobirder@gmail.com [ible]”
To: “IBLE”
Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2019 3:09:00 PM
Subject: [IBLE] Brazil birding

Because of my limited mobility this is my best chance for a great trip so I will pay $2000 to some one please help an old man 208 318 3085 we need more people or they will cancel

well of course our daughter graduating from Law School at UI Moscow, and her two girls, plus Missy’s sibs – these dudes are tall !!!

My heroes include Ardith Fichter, Edson Fichter, Sarah Fichter, and Dr. Chuck Trost,

do you have Idaho heroes?

At Roberts sewage pond.

Kit

Kit Struthers
kit619@centurylink.net
Idaho Falls ID
Sent from my iPhone

I was fortunate to find a snowy plover in Bannock County yesterday. There
is a large alkaline playa at the upper reaches of Oxford Slough, southeast
of the intersection of Oxford and Coulam Roads. The bird was at the north
end.

Interestingly, I have been drooling over this playa all spring because of
extensive mud/wet sand flats. It was superb for waterfowl back in late
March and early April, but has largely been disappointing for shorebirds.
I was hoping for lots of stilts, long-billed dowitchers, and maybe a peep
or two. But when I arrived it only harbored 1 killdeer, 1 American avocet,
and 4 Wilson’s phalaropes. I was scanning it a 3rd time in disbelief that
it was so empty when the plover flew in. I took notice of it right away as
something that could be interesting because of it’s overall small size and
light coloration. Wasn’t expecting this species though!

Other noteworthy sightings include a steady stream of hundreds of
white-faced ibis flying back and forth out of their nesting colony at
Oxford Slough Waterfowl Production Area, out toward Swan Lake Slough and
Marsh Valley. Displaying and calling long-billed curlews, willets, and
Wilson’s snipe were a treat to enjoy. There was also a daytime short-eared
owl along Coulam Road and a great-tailed grackle at Swan Lake Slough.

Steven F. Kahl
Deputy Project Leader
Southeast Idaho National Wildlife Refuge Complex
4425 Burley Dr., Ste. A
Chubbuck, ID 83202
C (208) 252-0805
P (208) 237-6615 ext 112
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Because of my limited mobility this is my best chance for a great trip so
I will pay $2000 to some one please help an old man 208 318 3085 we need
more people or they will cancel

Carl, you rock! thank you man! =) laughing at the plug for FB, yeehah

bird was mostly snoozing among actively foraging COGO about 100 ft above dam, and white wing patches were visible esp on L side, with overall structure of scoter face plus bill obvious, a sleepy bird “grounded” by this wx?

we love you Heidi =)

LA

From: “Carl Lundblad carl.lundblad@gmail.com [ible]”
To: “IBLE”
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2019 12:20:12 PM
Subject: [IBLE] FWD: White-winged Scoter continues at Swan Falls, Ada County

Larry Arnold reports (via Heidi Ware on Facebook) that the White-winged Scoter is still present today on the Snake River at Swan Falls Park in southwest Ada County (location details available on eBird and Google).
Thanks to Larry and Heidi for the report!

Carl Lundblad
Moscow, ID

Larry Arnold reports (via Heidi Ware on Facebook) that the White-winged
Scoter is still present today on the Snake River at Swan Falls Park in
southwest Ada County (location details available on eBird and Google).

Thanks to Larry and Heidi for the report!

Carl Lundblad
Moscow, ID

Actually I did the road trip to Texas for this species in 2004, but at the time it was “Green Violetear”

I see in Wiki that it was split to Mexican and Lesser, and learned that i have both
so i gained a hum species whilst sitting here! 😉

Larry

Mexican Violetear (Colibri thalassinus) (1) CONFIRMED

– Reported May 15, 2019 09:55 by Dina Perry

– Private Residence, West San Antonio US-TX, Bexar, Texas

– Map: [ http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=29.476122,-98.711293&ll=29.476122,-98.711293 | http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=29.476122,-98.711293&ll=29.476122,-98.711293 ]

– Checklist: [ https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S56308074 | https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S56308074 ]

– Media: 2 Photos

– Comments: “Continuing immature bird coming to feeder abt every 20 min.”

this just in from one of my corespondents on the West Coast……

was news to me!

soothing gentle rain this afternoon here in River City =)

[ https://theweek.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=533a8449522e198f5a133e200&id=bc321e7d9e&e=f82734e4ee | Scientists discover formerly extinct bird species made a comeback ]

A previously extinct species of bird made a miraculous return from the dead, scientists write in a new study published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . The white-throated rail previously inhabited the Aldabra Atoll in the Indian Ocean, but when the island disappeared below the sea about 136,000 years ago, the bird died out, CNN reports. Scientists digging around found fossils from before and after the island slipped under the sea, and discovered the bird reappeared several thousand years later after sea levels declined; it still inhabits the island today. Scientists call this phenomenon of a species repeatedly evolving from the same ancestor “iterative evolution,” and this marks one of the “most significant” instances of it occurring in a bird species, CNN says. In both cases, the white-throated rail colonized the island and evolved to be flightless due to a lack of competing predators. [ [ https://theweek.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=533a8449522e198f5a133e200&id=bbd6c8925a&e=f82734e4ee | CNN ] ]