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MAY 19, 2005: Rescued Birds at Humane Society and Urban Ecology Center -- Emails from Scott Diehl and Tim Vargo

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From: Scott Diehl <sdiehl@wihumane.org>
[To: Wisconsin Night Guardians for Songbirds]
Date: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 5:28 pm
Subject: Spring WINGS at the half-way point

Thanks so much again for all of your hard work! Without your field data, we just simply wouldn't really know what Milwaukee's skyline means for migrating songbirds.

We are at about the half-way point on this month's bird monitoring project.Bird migration is at-peak right now, with many species of warblers, native sparrows, the tanagers, flycatchers, vireos and cuckoos, among others, moving through. I'm delighted to report that the number of window collisions found by you and your fellow monitors have been few.
As of this writing, we have received
one WHITE-THROATED SPARROW (in rehab);
one SWAMP SPARROW;
one WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW;
one VIRGINIA RAIL; one RUBY-
CROWNEDKINGLET;
two OVENBIRDS, and
a SORA,
here at the shelter. [Wisconsin Humane Society, Wildlife Rehabilitation Center]

Few birds are being found, compared to Chicago, yet I think the coverage you have provided has been good. This is wonderful! This may mean that instead of getting the managers of tall buildings to turn their lights out, we might need to contact them to let them know they seem to be doing a good job (though probably unintentional), congratulate them, and encourage
them to keep their lights out during peak migration periods, or even make furtherlighting cut-backs. Fall, however, may be a different story, with different weather to contend with and inexperienced hatching-year birds making their first migration.

Please remember to keep a simple record of the dates, approximate times and routes you cover, even if you don't find any birds. Send these records to me in early June (once May monitoring is over).

Sincerely, Scott Diehl, Manager, Wisconsin Humane Society,
Wildlife Rehabilitation Center and Good Neighbors: Humane Wildlife Solutions
sdiehl@wihumane.org

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From: Tim Vargo , Research Coordinator, Urban Ecology Center
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 2:28 PM
[To: Wisconsin Night Guardians for Songbirds]

The Urban Ecology Center has received:

5/5 White-throated Sparrow - USBank building 5:45am
5/9 Swamp Sparrow - 545 E Wells Cathedral Square 5:15am
5/10 Ovenbird- no report of where caught
5/11 White-throated Sparrow - USBank building
5/16 Common Yellowthroat - Lincoln War Memorial 6:30am
5/16 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - Betty Brinn Children's Museum
5/16 Swainson's Thrush - NE Side Sandberg Hall UWM
5/16 White-throated Sparrow - SE Side Sandberg Hall UWM (plus 2 unidentified birds reduced to mush & already chewed on- a warbler & a sparrow)
Plus a brown creeper that came in unidentified.

Thanks to JG, OB, DC & BR (and anyone I may have missed) for bringing these in.

Tim Vargo, Research Coordinator, Urban Ecology Center