[mou] re: Whooping Crane

[Holly Peirson]

Whoa, lets keep cool...

Joan is a very busy person, she is probably the sole DNR specialist watching
and taking care of wildlife for the non-game area of the DNR for the TC
area, and it's a big job. Knowing Joan, I think she is one of the more
fairly-minded individuals (and well-read ones too) that I know. Is there a
real need to bash someone on email lists?! That's one of the things I really
don't like to read online... Birders need to stick together in support of
reintroduction efforts, because aren't we going to benefit in the long run
from them?!

Holly Peirson
(living about 1/8 mile S of Carlos, know Joan personally and she didn't call
me, have no hard feelings about it...)

-----Original Message-----
From: mou-net-admin@cbs.umn.edu [mailto:mou-net-admin@cbs.umn.edu]On Behalf
Of Dennis/Barbara Martin
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 10:16 AM
To: MOU-NET@cbs.umn.edu
Subject: Re: [mou] re: Whooping Crane

The article includes some mis-information from Joan Galli.  Bob Janssens
book includes two sightings considerably later than 1917 sighting she
attributes to Roberts book.

There are even more recent sightings than mentioned in Bob Janssens 1987
edition book.  We were lucky enough to be among several dozen birders who
were able to see a Whooping Crane in October, 1990 at Burnham Creek WMA in
Polk County.  Details and pictures of that bird were published in The Loon,
Volumn 62, Number 4.  The Burnham Creek sightings was originally by DNR
personnel.  That bird was probably in Minnesota for 17 days over a couple of
different locations.  For the details see The Loon.

Obviously Joan Galli does not pay enough attention to the MOU publications,
even though she is a member.

Dennis and Barbara Martin
dbmartin@skypoint.com

> More info, including why not publicized, at
> http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/5955608.htm
>


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