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February 3, 1966, Continental N to Jct. w/ US89, Pima Co. Arizona. 3:10-3:30p.m.CST
with Wendell G. Swank and Seymour Levy.
Red-tailed Hawk Curve-billed Thrashers Brown Towhee-12's
Marsh Hawk Phainopeplas Gambel? White-crowned
Sparrow Hawk Audubon Warblers Sparrow - 100's
Roadrunners Pyrrhuloxia - 2
White-throated Swifts 20 near water House Finch - 100's
Ravens Green-tailed Towhee - 2
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February 3, 1966, Winkelman, Pinal Co. Arizona - 5:45 p.m.
White-throated Swifts Gilded Flicker
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February 4, 1966, Show Low, Navajo Co. via ASH73 to Big Lake Jct. Apache Co. Arizona
9100'el. via McNary - from 6300'. 40& road miles. W/Al LaCount of AF&G.
Blue Heron over Pine Top Raven to 9000 & 4 pr. Western Bluebirds - 15
Red-tailed Hawk - 1 at 9000' Pinon Jay - 3 Gray-headed Juncos - 4
Acorn Woodpecker - 2 Mountain Chickadee - 12
Lewis Woodpecker - 1 Pigmy Nuthatch - 2 yellow-pine to aspen-spruce
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February 5, 1966, Showlow, Arizona to Springerville, Apache Co. Ariz. 1:15-2 p.m.CST.
Pine-juniper region with grasses.
Sparrow Hawk - 1 Raven - 2 Meadowlarks - 5
Mourning Dove - 6 Pinon Jay - 2
Horned Larks - 40 Western Bluebird - 14
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Feb. 5, 1966, Pie Town to Datil, Catron Co. New Mexico. 3-3:30 p.m. CST. Clear, cold.
Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Sparrow Hawk - 2
Ferruginous Hawk - 2 Raven - 3
C. Roughleg Hawk - 2 Mountain Chickadee Gray-headed Juncos
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February 18, 1966, I94,Casselon, Cass Co. to Valley City, Barnes Co. North Dakota.
via area to north and east of L.Ashtabula. Noon-2:15 p.m.CST. 25-20 below X0!!
Pheasant - 2M w/ JFrank Cassell, Larry Milsonw and Jack Gross of NDSU.
***Snowy Owl-Nyctea scandiaca -1 on phone pole by hiway, 1 mi. W of Casselton.Watch for
while before it flew to NE across plowed field. House Sparrows -towns and homestead
Rock Doves in homestead areas. Com.Redpolls -25-30 N of ValleyCy.
Horned Larks - several Snow Buntings- 42 in 2 flocks.
Starlings - few
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February 19, 1966, Huron, Beadle Co. to Chamberlain, Brule Co. South Dakota.
via Wessington Springs. 4:30-6:15p.m.CST. Ovc. Snow flurries -0 to 10 below
Pheasants - many near road with Paul Springer and George Jonkeyl.
Horned Larks House Sparrows
Crow - 1 Redpolls
Starling - in town Lapland Longspurs in flocks.
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February 20, 1966, Chamberlain-BigBend Dam area, Lyman,Brule,& Buffalo Cos. South Dakota.
7:30-noon, CST. 20-5 below zero. Windy& cold. w/Warren Jackson,Springer & Jonkel.
Mallard - lM below BigBendDam
Common Merganser -25M & 2Forimm. at BBD.
Bald Eagle-5-7, 1 flying, others perched (300 on January inventory of Missouri R. here)
Pheasant - few
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***Greater Prairie Chicken-Tympanuchus cupido - 12's with Sharp-tails and without. Flying
down from higher grassed-hills to feeding fields (corn and broom stubble and plowed
fields. They flush first from mixed flocks and Jackson says in mixed flocks the
sharp-tails get trapped and the chickens do not. Check up on use of underwing flashing
as counting aid in flock flights, along with know tail methods. Since chicken body
darker than sharp-tail, there is good contrast. Flocks W of Missouri R.
***Prairie Chicken-Sharp-tailed Grouse HYBRID - about 1% of all trapped by Jackson. We saw
one at 1st trap site east of Missouri in S.D. More chicken than sharpie in "ours".
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