rising@zoo.toronto.edu (Jim Rising) (05/25/91)
Blue-winged Warbler is fairly uncommon in Toronto, and they might be nesting here. The Western Kingbird, however, is very uncommon here. Could your bird have been a Great Crested Flycatcher? It is good to be back (now that it's summer) after a long and very interesting and productive trip to New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Hawaii, and most recently Costa Rica. My special thanks to Andrew Taylor of Sydney and Bill Venables of Adelaide for many tips on finding birds in Australia. Andrew was nice enough to take my wife and me out one day near Sydney, and helped us push our Australian list to over 300 species! Not too bad, I think, considering that everything was new for us--well, most things. Unfortunately we did not have any time in Adelaide. I'll post our list to Andrew and Bill--and anyone else in netland that is interested. I don't know how many new species we got over all, but over 400 in Costa Rica, and over 40 new families overall. But for you North Americans, Australia and PNG are as close as you can get to being on a different planet without getting into a rocket! -- Name: Jim Rising Mail: Dept. Zoology, Univ. Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A1 UUCP: uunet!attcan!utzoo!rising BITNET: rising@zoo.utoronto.ca
edm@verdix.com (Ed Matthews) (05/25/91)
In article <1991May24.172201.746@zoo.toronto.edu> rising@zoo.toronto.edu (Jim Rising) writes: >Blue-winged Warbler is fairly uncommon in Toronto, and they might >be nesting here. The Western Kingbird, however, is very uncommon >here. Could your bird have been a Great Crested Flycatcher? No. As I said in the earlier post, it was probably an Eastern that the sun made look yellow. -- Ed Matthews edm@verdix.com Verdix Corporation Headquarters (703) 378-7600 Chantilly, Virginia