[mou] Loon with chick at Carlos Avery

[MARTELL, Mark]

I have been seeing and hearing Loons on a small lake in Little Canada, =
just southwest of the 694/35E interchange. Have not seen chicks yet.

Mark Martell
Director of Bird Conservation
Audubon Minnesota
2357 Ventura Drive #106
St. Paul, MN 55125
651-739-9332
651-731-1330 (FAX)


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul A. Lender [mailto:lender@umn.edu]
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 8:55 AM
To: mou-net@cbs.umn.edu
Cc: lender@umn.edu
Subject: [mou] Loon with chick at Carlos Avery


I was at Carlos Avery yesterday late morning.  Nothing especially=20
noteworthy, but I did see a pair Common Loons, one bearing a black chick =
on=20
her[?] back, in Pool 6.

How common are nesting loons this far south?  Does anyone know their=20
current southern limit?

"Birds in Minnesota" mentions that they nest as far south as Scott =
County,=20
but that was in the mid 80s.

-- Paul Lender
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Paul A. Lender
University of Minnesota Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
2512 South 7th Street, Suite 200
Minneapolis  MN  55454
Voice: (612) 273-8053
FAX: (612) 273-7959
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