Re: [MDOsprey] Goshawk Migration
Phil Davis (PDavis@ix.netcom.com)
Fri, 19 Nov 1999 23:57:35 -0500
At 11:18 AM 11/18/1999 -0500, Dan Eberly wrote:
>Based on my observations at hawk watches in Minnesota and Pennsylvania and
>what I see on the internet, high numbers of Goshawks are migrating south.
Dan, et al. -
A technicality, perhaps ...
I recall from a David Brinker (MD DNR) program a number of years ago, that
Goshawks do not actually "migrate" south, rather it's just a dispersal.
According to the AOU Checklist, they mostly winter in their breeding range
but do disburse, irregularly, south of the breeding range as far as
southern California, east-central Texas, the northern Gulf states, and
west-central Florida.
Phil
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