Hello all,
With all this talk about Climate Change I was amazed to see my 3rd Turkey Vulture in Bar Harbor yesterday around 3:00 pm. While I will not be reporting all TV's seen in the future I am amazed at how early these TV's have come this year. I had my first two on Monday with my son Graham. I suspect they are surviving on road kill which will soon be plentiful. They also have an incredible wing surface to weight ratio so they can stay stay aloft with minimal energy requirements.
I will soon be in Cuba where I will count more than 3000 in two weeks... Cuba has the one of the highest concentration on TV's per kilometer. March Turkey Vultures in Maine...amazing.
Tonight I will be talking about Cuba in Ellsworth...... Hope to see you there.
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Based on their wing surface to weight ratio, turkey vultures have light wing loading. This makes them more buoyant in air than other vultures and better able to utilize thermals to help them stay in flight with minimal energy usage. (Wallace, 2004) Based on their wing surface to weight ratio, turkey vultures have light wing loading. This makes them more buoyant in air than other vultures and better able to utilize thermals to help them stay in flight with minimal energy usage. (Wallace, 2004) Based on their wing surface to weight ratio, turkey vultures have light wing loading. This makes them more buoyant in air than other vultures and better able to utilize thermals to help them stay in flight with minimal energy usage. (Wallace, 2004)
Press Release: Birding in the Land of Fidel: Cuba Revisited
From: Down East Birdwatching and Nature Tours, Bar Harbor
Location: Unitarian/Universalist Church Ellsworth, Bucksport Road
Thursday, March 21, 7:00 p.m. Birding in the Land of Fidel: Cuba Revisited
Join Michael J. Good, MS owner of Down East Nature Tours and founder of the 15th Acadia Birding Festival in Bar Harbor, joined a team of ornithologists in Cuba to complete another successful Bird Survey coordinated by the Caribbean Conservation Trust--- a US organization with 17 years of managing conservation programs in Cuba. Michael has been associated with CCT since 2001. They traveled over 1300 miles of the Cuban countryside to 74 locations where they tallied a total 18,394 birds of 162 different species. Over 800 individual Warblers were counted! Not only is Cuba vital to Neotropical migrants, it also has a large number of endemics (26) Come hear Michael's story of birding Cuba, the Caribbean's largest and most ecologically diverse island nation.
Key words: Endemics, James Bond, Juan Gundlach, Warblers, Fidel Castro, Migratory Neotropical Birds
Michael J. Good, MS
President Down East Nature Tours
Founder and Director Research and Development
14th Acadia Birding Festival, May 31-June 3, 2012
Co-founder Penobscot Watershed Eco Center
39 COTTAGE STREET
Bar Harbor, Maine 04609
207-288-8128 / 207-479-4256
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