[Birdnet] Fwd: Glossy Ibis in Cache Valley

[Mark Stackhouse]

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> From: David Wheeler <dumpster_42 at yahoo.com>
> Date: June 10, 2006 2:37:15 PM MDT
> To: Mark at westwings.com
> Subject: Fwd: Glossy Ibis in Cache Valley
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> From: David Wheeler <dumpster_42 at yahoo.com>
> Date: June 10, 2006 2:13:15 PM MDT
> To: birdnet at utahbirds.org
> Subject: Glossy Ibis in Cache Valley
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> Larene & I found a glossy ibis in a pasture about
> (very approximately) one third mile west of the
> Gossner's Foods cheese factory (which is at 1000 W
> 1000 N) along 1000 North.  The pasture itself is just
> NE of the NE corner of the sewage treatment ponds and
> is grazed fairly low.  We saw the bird at about 10:15
> this morning.   It had all the main markings (leg
> color, dusky blue face skin color, baby blue face
> outline--thin and ending at eyes, brown irises...).
> It flew off as we approached in a futile effort to
> photograph it, and we didn't relocate it (though it
> probably just went into the tall marsh plants around a
> small stream/ditch on the edge of the field).
>
> It was loosely associated with about 5-8 other ibi,
> all of which were clearly White-faced.
>
> We found it critical when observing ibis to position
> ourselves so that the light was really good (more
> behind us than the birds) in order to have a clear ID,
> seeing as the markings can be difficult to see in
> bright  light if the bird is backlit.
>
> Incredibly, these were the first ibis we scoped, so
> that in my opinion this search is very easy and there
> must be thousands of the glossies out there (based on
> our statistical analysis of one Glossy out of about 20
> ibis we looked at).  But, seriously, they may actually
> be more common than one might have guessed.
>
> A thousand thanks to our friends in Idaho (You're the
> man, Cliff!) for alerting us to something that may
> have been under our noses all these years, and to Ron
> for taking up the challenge in Utah.
>
> Happy scoping,
>
> David
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