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- From: ditch@prefect.cc.bellcore.com (ditch,r l)
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- Subject: Re: Do YOU Have Peregrine Falcon on YOUR Yard List?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.203130.3134@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:31:30 GMT
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- All this talk about yard list raptors made me check my own list for
- central NJ, where I've owned a house since December 1978. Yes, I do
- have peregrine falcon on my yard list, as well as 17 other raptors
- (vultures, hawks, and owls). They are:
-
- 1 Black Vulture
- 2 Turkey Vulture
- 3 Osprey
- 4 Bald Eagle
- 5 Northern Harrier
- 6 Sharp-shinned Hawk
- 7 Cooper's Hawk
- 8 Northern Goshawk
- 9 Red-shouldered Hawk
- 10 Broad-winged Hawk
- 11 Red-tailed Hawk
- 12 Rough-legged Hawk
- 13 American Kestrel
- 14 Merlin
- 15 Peregrine Falcon
- 16 Eastern Screech-Owl
- 17 Great Horned Owl
- 18 Northern Saw-whet Owl
-
- Based on the official NJ state checklist, I still could add the following:
-
- American swallow-tailed kite (I haven't seen this anywhere but FL)
- Mississippi kite (I've only seen this once, in Cape May NJ)
- Swainson's hawk (I've only seen this once in NJ; numbers of times out west)
- Golden eagle (only seen 3 in NJ)
- Gyrfalcon (seen 4 in NJ, closest to house was 25 miles)
- Barn owl (seen about 10 in NJ, but no closer than 15 miles to my house)
- Snowy owl (seen about 15 in NJ, no closer than 25 miles to the house)
- Barred owl (seen about 5 in NJ, a pair about 10 miles away)
- Long-eared owl (seen lots in NJ, as close as 10 miles)
- Short-eared owl (seen lots in NJ, as close as 10 miles)
-
- That comes out to having 18 of 28, or 64% of the state list, on my yard
- list.
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