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Brian Sharp

Publications and source records attributed to Brian Sharp.

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USGS1972

Eastward migration of blue-winged teal

Of 3,789 recoveries of blue-winged teal ( Anas discors ) banded prior to the hunting season in the prairie pothole region, 183 (4.8 percent) were recovered, due east in New England, Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritime Provinces during the subsequent hunting season. Of 19 recoveries looked at in detail, all were banded as either hatching-year (flying young) or local (flightless young) birds. A blue-winged teal banded in Minnesota in September was retrapped in October in South Carolina, before being shot later that month in Colombia, South America.

North Dakota, Minnesota↗
USGS1971

Transcontinental mourning dove recovery

A Mourning Dove ( Zenaida macroura ) banded in New York has been reported shot in California. On 25 August 1969, near Palmyra (43 ° 00' N, 77 ° 10' W), New York Department of Environmental Conservation personnel placed U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service band 883-97279 on the leg of a hatching-year Mourning Dove of unknown sex. During the first weekend of the dove season in September 1970, Stan Solus (P.O. Box 594, Seiad Valley, California) recovered the band from a dove he shot in the Shasta Valley, Siskiyou County, California (41 ° 30' N, 122 ° 20' W). As Mr. Solus included the band with his reporting letter and, in response to my asking him for verification, reaffirmed his original information, the recovery has been accepted as authentic. I suggest this vagrancy may be explained by assuming that the inexperienced New York bird got emotionally involved with a western bird with which it shared winter quarters, perhaps in Mexico, and thus the following year ended up a flower child in California.

The Auk↗