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: edgew@socket.net
Compiled 4 April, 1999
This is the Missouri Bird Alert, a service of the Audubon Society of
Missouri, Sunday, April 4th, 10:45 a.m. You may leave your incoming bird
sightings by pressing 5 on your touchtone phone and speak after the tone.
Birds highlighted are: CINNAMON TEAL, GREATER PRAIRIE-CHICKEN, BLACK-BELLIED
PLOVER, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, BAIRD¹S SANDPIPER,
PECTORAL SANDPIPER, BONAPARTE¹S GULL, WHITE-WINGED DOVE, GREATER ROADRUNNER,
PINE WARBLER, LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH and CHIPPING SPARROW.
Statewide:
The Missouri Department of Conservation has projected the extipation of
the Greater Prairie-Chicken from Missouri in the first decade of the 21st
Century. This sad projection is based, in part, on declining numbers of
birds at known leks. MDC is conducting as systematic search for new leks,
in hopes of finding pockets of population not previously known. If you have
seen or heard Greater Prairie-Chickens booming at a lek you think is not
known to the MDC, call Jim D. Wilson, State Ornithologist at (573) 751-4115.
In the southwest:
In southeast Barton County at Golden Prairie, GREATER PRAIRIE-CHICKENS
are booming morning and evening. They may be viewed from a temporary blind
toward the west end of the Missouri Prairie Foundation property, or from a
small pull out parking area at the east end (look south toward the ridge in
the field immediately east of the prairie). Golden Prairie is reached by
going south from Golden City for 2 miles on Missouri Rte.37, then 2.5 miles
west on SE 90th Rd.
In northwest Lawrence County 6 early BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS were seen by
Bonnie Heidy and Edge Wade on April 1. A Brown Thrasher was singing on
Talbot C.A., also in Lawrence County.
In Greene County, Fellows Lake continues to be a hot spot. Kay Johnson
was surprised by a GREATER ROADRUNNER west of the silo on the North side.
Kay¹s report and Nancy Vanderbrink¹s both included seven Common Loons and
Common Goldeneye in lists of about 30 species. A possible Caspian Tern was
seen on the 29th.
At Stockton Lake, Cedar County, Edge and Bonnie saw BONAPARTE¹S GULLS
from the bridge on Missouri Rte. 215 and a total of 14 Common Loons from the
bridge and the Mutton Access area in Dade County on the 31st.
In the west:
Two CINNAMON TEAL were reported from Four Rivers C.A., Vernon and Bates
counties, this week. My apologies, I inadvertantly deleted the reference.
This is in addition to the one at Schell-Osage, Vernon and St. Clair
counties. (Note also the one in Boone Co., later).
In Jackson County, Mike Beck visited Lake Jacomo on the 2nd. He heard a
Brown Thrasher and watched Wood Ducks, a Common Loon, and three Hooded
Mergansers. Field Sparrows were returning.
In the northwest:
A WHITE-WINGED DOVE is coming to a feeder at Larry Lade¹s residence in
St. Joseph. The address is 2823 Sacramento St.; phone is 816-232-6125.
Directions: North on I-29 to exit 46 Hwy. 36 west), take 28th St. exit,
turn right (north) at 28th Street, go to Sacramento, turn right (east).
Park in front of 2823 and feel free to walk around back,m slowly. The bird
may be on a black oil sunflower feeder atop a barrel, or on electrical wires
or in trees.
In central Missouri:
A CINNAMON TEAL was reported by Tom Curtis, seen on the third at the
Columbia city wetlands, treatment cell #1. This is the unit immediately
north of McBaine and can be reached by walking from the Katy Trail parking
lot, north across the bridge.
Tom also relocated the BAIRD¹S SANDPIPER seen by Jean Leonatti and Edge
Wade on the 2nd at Eagle Bluffs C.A., north of the pool 8 sign, associating
with Pectoral Sandpipers. A GREATER YELLOWLEGS was at Eagle Bluff on the
2nd, as were several Lesser Yellowlegs.
Several people have folowed up on Knox McCrory¹s find of AMERICAN
GOLDEN-PLOVERS at Bradford Farm in eastern Boone County. 400-500 are in the
plowed fields, most are just west of the equipment buildings on the north
side of the gravel road.
In the East:
The PINE WARBLER first reported by Charlene Malone remains at the parking
lot at the Turkey Ridge Trail just outside Rockwood Reservation, SW St.
Louis County. 4 or 5 LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSHES are within Rockwood. Shaw
Arboretum yielded many CHIPPING SPARROWS for Connie Alwood and Kent Lannert.
Information about the Audubon
Society of Missouri can be obtained by calling Jean Graebner, treasurer at
573/698-2855. Good birding.