Date: 2/6/26 5:59 am From: RoserComeau via groups.io <80comros...> Subject: Re: [slocobirding] MV Dozer banded Long-billed Curlew
Thank you to Wendi McKeown for reminding me about the MCAS ZOOM
presentation about the Long Billed Curlews - a Species of Special Concern,
presented by Heather Hayes, a biologist from the Intermountain Bird
Observatory. Here is the link: LBCU ZOOM
<https://youtu.be/Q_d_KNDa38A?si=UsEc8op6_rl2OCl_> The ZOOM was held during the early days of covid- before the IBO lost their
LBCU funding. Heather was a presenter at the 2025 Morro Bay Bird Festival,
so some of you may have seen her then. She was very excited to be here, and
she did get to see Dozer!
Happy birding,
Carol Comeau
Los Osos
On Thu, Feb 5, 2026 at 3:49 PM RoserComeau via groups.io <80comros=
<gmail.com...> wrote:
> After being sidelined by a knee replacement, I was not able to do my
> weekly Morro Strand walks for several months, where I usually keep an eye
> out for MV Dozer—our celebrity Long-billed Curlew. My last sighting of him
> was in early July.
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> I was delighted to learn that Dozer was seen and photographed during the
> Bird Festival by Neha and Vinish, aka *“The Lazy Birders.” *Morro Strand
> Jan 13
> <https://ebird.org/checklist/S294075665?_gl=1*1mzxu8a*_gcl_au*OTg5NDMzMzEuMTc2NzcxMjg1MQ..*_ga*MTA4MzI1NjI4OC4xNzU5ODc2ODM1*_ga_QR4NVXZ8BM*czE3NzAzMzM1MDIkbzUzJGcxJHQxNzcwMzM0Mzg4JGo1OCRsMCRoMTY1MjgxODQ1OQ..> >
> For those new to this listserv, MV Dozer was banded and fitted with a
> satellite transmitter in May 2020 by the Intermountain Bird Observatory at
> his breeding grounds in Indian Valley in the west-central mountains of
> Idaho. He spends the non-breeding season with us here on the Central Coast.
> On September 11, 2024, Dozer’s antenna broke and stopped transmitting.
> Although the research program lost funding several years ago, it’s still a
> joy to catch a visual of him from time to time.
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> Here is a link to an article local birder Petra Clayton wrote about Dozer
> in 2022. Dozer Article
> <https://www.boisestate.edu/ibo/2022/11/01/spotted-california-celebrity-making-waves-in-morro-bay/> >
> If you are birding Morro Strand State Beach, keep an eye out for Dozer. He
> usually starts heading to Idaho at the end of March and returns by
> early July.
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> Happy birding,
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> Carol Comeau- Los Osos
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