[Birdnet] Neotropic Still there

[Mark Stackhouse]

There's been a trend for some years now of birds from southern Utah 
expanding their ranges northward, and, though I don't have hard data, 
I'm pretty sure that the number of state-first records in the last ten 
years, and maybe even "rare" birds seen has been dominated by southern 
Utah reports. It's been a while since we've had a real rarity stray 
from the north.

This is consistent with reports elsewhere in with regards to birds and 
other organisms, and is generally considered evidence of global 
warming. I recently read that the movement northward in North America 
for a broad range of species is about 100 miles in the last 25 years. 
Perhaps even more telling is the "state-first" birds of the last 20 
years in southern Utah that are now regular, breeding species in the 
state, such as Painted Redstart and Zone-tailed Hawk.

Mark Stackhouse
mark at westwings.com
801-487-9453 (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)
011-52-323-285-1243 (San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico)

On Sep 1, 2007, at 10:39 AM, Connie McManus wrote:

> Hi, Gang
> I have a burning question ...
> I've noticed this year we have had sitings of birds that are usually 
> found south of us -- the painted bunting, this neotropic cormorant and 
> probably others, but these are the two that come to my mind readily.  
> Is this normal from year to year to see the odd bird that is usually 
> found south of UT, or is there an even distribution of rare birds from 
> all compas points?  Secondly, with all the flurry about global warming 
> and hotter, wetter or drier, more intense storms weather due to 
> climate change (not to mention forrest/brush fires), could these be 
> reasons why we are seeing these exotic birds?
>
> Connie McManus
> the little ol' lady from cache valley
>
>
> On 8/31/07, Larry Tripp <ltripp29 at hotmail.com > wrote: The Neotropic 
> Cormorant was still there tonight. I got to the lake at about 5:00 pm 
> and looked in the spot where Rick first saw it and it wasn't there. I 
> saw a lot of Cormorants were toward the south end of the Lake so I 
> drove down the road on the west side ( coming from Cedar City it's the 
> first left heading south after passing the lake. I went to 2000 south 
> and drove the dirt road towards the lake parked and walked to the 
> shore line. Looking to the south I first saw the bird on the dike that 
> crosses the lake close to the south end.
>>  Rick showed up shortly after that and the bird had flown to the east 
>> side and was mixed in with a lot of D C Cormorants and White 
>> Pelicans. It took us a while to relocate the bird. When it's in the 
>> open it's pretty easy to pick out but it spent some time back in the 
>> bushes where it's hard to see. We watched it until sunset.
>>
>> There's probably 75+ D C Cormorants there but size alone makes it 
>> pretty easy to pick out. There isn't a lot of access spots there so 
>> you  definitely need a scope. I'm sure it moves around and may be 
>> hidden at times.
>>
>> It's a great bird for the state you better get down and look for it.
>>
>> Larry Tripp
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> Connie McManus
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