Re: Info on Demoiselle Crane?
Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:01:49 -0700
From: Val Blakely
On 19 October, Mike Feighner wrote about a Demoiselle Crane:
The bird was last seen both on Woodbridge Rd and Statten Rd off the west end of Thorton Rd [near Lodi].
That's strange. What is it doing over in the Central Valley? Its range is in Asia.
Val Blakely
Fremont, CA
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Re: Info on Demoiselle Crane?
Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:04:45 -0700
From: Mary Smith
At 01:01 PM, Val wrote:
That's strange. What is [a Demoiselle Crane] doing over in the Central Valley? Its range is in Asia.
Folks have been asking that for awhile. Some people think it's an escapee from a private menagerie or aviary. It also might be a stray from Asia. It's unbanded.
also has lots of posts about it.
Mary, also from Fremont
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Wild Turkeys redux
Wed, 24 Oct 2001 20:42:44 PDT
From: Sylvia Sykora
Well, I didn't see them, but my neighbor (not a birder, but who could misidentify a Wild Turkey?) said she saw a group of about 20 turkeys this morning at the entrance to Joaquin Miller Park, off Castle Dr at Holyrood, just below the Castle and Skyline intersection. This is about 1.5 miles south of the location where a turkey was heard earlier this week.
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Re: Info on Demoiselle Crane?
Fri, 26 Oct 2001 13:23:03 -0700
From: Tom Condit
Mary Smith wrote:
It also might be a stray from Asia.
Not just "Asia," but Central Asia at that. I could be wrong, but I think this bird would be rare even in Japan and most of China. In the other direction, they stray as far as Bulgaria or so, and down into Africa. None of it anywhere near where a missed turn would take you to California.
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Re: Info on Demoiselle Crane?
Fri, 26 Oct 2001 16:00:40 -0700
From: Rusty Scalf
Of course, exactly the same could be said for the Greater Sandplover that showed up near Stinson Beach. That one nests on the north slope of the Himalaya.
The thought on the Greater Sandplover is that it flew in exactly the wrong (opposite) direction and flew over the pole to North America and California. This crane would not have needed to have done anything that dramatic. If it had gone north enough, it could have encountered Lesser Sandhills which nest in northeastern Siberia. Then followed them to their North American wintering grounds.
Rusty Scalf
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