Acorn woodpecker species accounts, v4461
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1989 M. Stanback M. Formicivorus KOUT HNHR 23 Apr 1500 Walt checks hole - empty 27 Apr 1545 Empty 6 May 1430 Bird to the hole! 7 May 1730 6 opaque eggs. 11 May 1500 Not yet hatched 13 May 1330 RL = 7.55 / LL = 7.45 / RW = 8.8 / LW = 8.5 / B = 6.45 / r = 4.1, I removed B and runt, took to aviary. 14 May 0700 Aviary birds threw them out - dead (+ I can't Find them for tissue) Aha, at 0930 I found them, badly pecked up and stored in a log. I got liver tissue from both of them. Labeled "MF Tll, KOUT, 890514" = B / "MF T12, KOUT... = runt. I saved stomachs and stomach contents and carcasses of both babies (together in a film canister w 95% EtOH) 1645 RL = 11.9 / LL = 12.3 / RW = 13.5 / LW = 13.2 16 May 0915 RL = 15.7 (8.65) = - / LL = LP = 17.9 (8.7) / RW = Y = 19.4 (9.1) LW = 17.5 (9.4) = W 18 May 1645 P = 31.2 (11.15) / W = 30.7 (11.9) / Y = 33.4 (11.2) / Z89 (11.45) I removed Pr-Y to aviary. 19 May 0600 Shit, though they were Feeding Pr-Y when I last watched last night (1830) they apparently did not brood. They were dead this morning. T16 + T17. (also put the bodies in Formalin, * * Group Update * 706 disap 890401 $2m 9 1466 (had disap ) is now ARSW B9 26 May 1030 W = 63.5 17.4 12.45 12.5 7 11 40 ~ 63.5 16.55 13 13 11 11 41.5