Date: 4/9/24 6:10 pm From: Jim Morgan <jlmm...> Subject: Re: Eclipse Birding observations
Heard a Barred Owl as well.
Also heard Yellow-Throated Vireo call as the light dimmed. They had been vocal while we were out between 8-10. am. We went back outside about noon and didn’t hear them until light level dropped a fair bit. Not scientific since I wasn’t outside listening the whole time. But it sure seemed the Y-T vireo calls picked back up after light levels dropped.
Locality was close tie the ghost town of Rush in the Buffalo River area, but several hundred feet elevation above the river.
Regards
Jim Morgan
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> On Apr 9, 2024, at 6:32 PM, Anderson, Leif - FS, AR <000002b0bc8b0106-dmarc-request...> wrote:
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> Greetings all,
> The last 3 days I ‘ve had the pleasure of being a volunteer for some neat bioacoustic eclipse research. Led by Douglas Barron and his undergrad student Colton Morris, from AR Tech University.
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> I had 3 interesting bird observations.
> During the partial portion of the eclipse 2 White-throated Sparrows stopped feeding/calling/singing and flew up into a Cedar bush. They stayed on the “roost” until after totality then resumed their normal feeding behavior.
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> The end of totality “Dawn chorus” at 1:54pm was just as good as our normal dawn chorus.
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> About 4 min into totality a Barred Owl started calling.
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> Holla Bend NWR hosted about 800 eclipse visitors, many of whom were birders/ nature lovers from all over the country, Canada and even a birding family from the Czech Republic.
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> , Leif
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