ML310893601
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Unedited video, attempting to show the size of the flocks present. Two sizable flocks too distant to capture. All but a few birds in these flocks are LALO.
Observation details
In the field I estimated about 6,000 birds. Upon reviewing photos and videos, I estimated the various flock counts seen in one scan, and calculated 5,400 individuals. An incredibly impressive grouping of longspurs. Flocks were perched on utility wires, coming to cracked corn I put in the road, in a line of young weedy trees, and four very large separate flocks with two flocks at different distances on the south side of the road and the same for the north side of the road. Totals include 600+ birds in distant bare trees, 1500+ birds on utility lines, a few hundred birds eating corn on the road, a flock of 1500 birds and another of 1000, and two distant flocks of 300+ birds each. I took a number of photos to try and portray flock size. Flocks depicted in photos are mostly separate flocks. Two flocks were too far to capture in photos. Despite scanning utility lines, trees, birds on the ground, and viewing flocks in flight, longspurs accounted for close to 100% of the individuals. The number of Snow Buntings and larks was extremely few. Most Horned Larks (only 40 total) were by themselves farther west on the road from the longspurs.
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- Original file size
- 66.34 MB