* Eastern Kansas, Western Missouri
* Kansas City
* March 15, 1999
* MOKC9903.15
- Birds mentioned
Trumpeter Swan
Greater Prairie-Chicken
Franklin's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Glaucous Gull
Tree Swallow
American Pipit
Pine Grosbeak
- Locations mentioned
Hillsdale Lake, KS
Lawrence Riverfront Park Wildlife Area, KS
Perry Lake, KS
Four Rivers Conservation Area, MO
Grandview, MO
Jackson County, MO
Taberville Prairie, MO
- Transcript
hotline: Burroughs Audubon Rare Bird Alert of Kansas City
date: March 15, 1999
number: 913-342-2473
to report: the same
compiler: Lloyd Moore, ictinia@swbell.net
coverage: Eastern Kansas, Western Missouri
transcriber: Dave Williams, DaveWmsKS@aol.com
Welcome to the Bird Alert of Kansas City, a service of Burroughs Audubon
updated Monday, March 15th.
On March 11th Mark Robbins reported 1 adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL,
1 adult GLAUCOUS GULL, 1 immature GLAUCOUS GULL, 3 FRANKLIN'S GULLS,
and 2,500 RING-BILLED GULLS at Lawrence Riverfront Park Wildlife Area
(Douglas County, KS), also known as the Old Landfill, north of Lawrence
along the Kaw River. The LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL was also seen again
on the morning of March 14th at the flooded sand pit in north Lawrence
by Alexis Powell.
On March 13th, Mark Land reported 3 AMERICAN PIPITS from Hillsdale Lake
(Miami County, KS), and on March 14th, 6 AMERICAN PIPITS were seen at
Perry Lake (Jefferson County, KS) by Matt Gearhart and Aaron Mitchell.
Aaron Mitchell reported from Four Rivers Conservation Area (Vernon County,
MO) on March 12th, 1 TREE SWALLOW, and at Taberville Prairie (St. Clair
County, MO) 30 GREATER PRAIRIE-CHICKENS.
A male PINE GROSBEAK briefly visited the feeders at Maurice Conway's
residence (sp?) in Grandview (Jackson County, MO) on March 11th.
The 2 TRUMPETER SWANS at the Independence Airport (Jackson County, MO)
were still being seen through the past weekend. Both of these birds are
two years old and were released at Waterloo, Iowa in 1998.
If you have information on birds in the area, please leave your message,
name and number after the tone. Thanks for calling.
- End transcript