Hotline: Missouri Bird Alert Service Number to Access and Report:
573/445-9115
Coverage: Missouri Statewide
Compiler and Transcriber: Jerry L. and Edge Wade
E-mail: WadeJ.missouri.edu
Compiled 18 March, 1999
Birds highlighted are PACIFIC LOON,TRUMPETER SWAN, SURF SCOTER, GOLDEN
EAGLE, PEREGRINE FALCON, GREATER PRAIRIE-CHICKEN, SANDHILL CRANE, SPRAGUE'S
PIPIT, SMITH'S LONGSPUR.
Birds mentioned:
PACIFIC LOON
Common Loon
Horned Grebes
Eared Grebe
American White Pelican
Greater-White-fronted Goose
Snow Goose
Ross's Goose
TRUMPETER SWAN
SURF SCOTER
Red-breasted Merganser
Bald Eagle
GOLDEN EAGLE
PEREGRINE FALCON
GREATER PRAIRIE-CHICKEN
SANDHILL CRANE
Tree Swallow
American Pipit
SPRAGUE'S PIPIT
SMITH'S LONGSPUR
In the southwest:
In Greene County, Greg Swick and Charley Burwick led a GOAS field trip to
Fellows Lake, Saturday, March 13th. Highlights were 3 Common Loons, 9
Horned Grebes, 1 very early Eared Grebe and a Red-breasted Merganser. A
loon first conservatively listed as unidentified has been determined to be a
PACIFIC LOON. It was seen again on the 17th, but not reported seen by Betty
Dyer, Zelda Ellison and Dorothy Thurman on the 18th when they saw 3 Common
Loons, 4 Horned Grebes, 1 Eared Grebe, 50 soaring American White Pelicans,
and a PEREGRINE FALCON. 4 SPRAGUE'S PIPITS were seen by 5 observers on the
north shore of Fellows Lake on the 15th.
In the west:
A Tree Swallow was seen by Aaron Mitchell at Four Rivers Conservation Area
in Vernon County. Aaron found 30 GREATER PRAIRIE CHICKENS at Taberville
Prairie in St. Clair County.
In Jackson County, 2 banded TRUMPETER SWANS, released at Waterloo, IA, in
1998 were still bein seen at the Independence Airport through last weekend.
In the northwest:
Jack Hilsabeck reported 32 SMITH'S LONGSPURS flying overhead west of St.
Joseph in Buchanan County on the 17th. Larry Lade reports three SANDHILL
CRANES remain at Lake Contrary as of the 18th.
In central Missouri:
In southern Boone County Dan and Barb Brueggeman saw a GOLDEN EAGLE soaring
over the bluffs harassed by a Bald Eagle on Monday the 15th. Several people
reported American White Pelicans at Eagle Bluffs early this week. They were
not seen on the afternoon of the 18th, but a mixed flock of about 300 geese
included more than 50 Greater White-fronted Geese, about 250 Snow Geese, and
a half dozen ROSS'S GEESE.
In the east:
David Becher and the WGNSS bird group reported 2 SURF SCOTERS in Ellis Bay
at Riverlands Environmental Demonstration Area, St. Charles County, on the
14th. On the 16th, Connie Alwood saw 2 American Pipits at Wise Road Marsh
and 5 at the flooded area on Cora Island Road behind Riverlands.
This is the Missouri Bird Alert, a service of the Audubon Society of
Missouri, Thursday, March 18th, 10 p.m. Information about the Audubon
Society of Missouri can be obtained by calling Jean Graebner, treasurer at
573/698-2855. Good birding.