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Sept11(2) (Read-Only) The Horned Lark Kansas Ornithological Society September 2011 Vol. 38, No. 3 President’s message From the field Wow! What a summer we’ve accepted, would be added as full had. It was hot and it was dry. species. The Common Black- What many KOS members saw Hawk, if accepted, would be a in Morton County in May hypothetical species as there was continued to spread across much no photo, recording or specimen. of the state as the summer What a summer to be a birder! progressed. The wave of 100- But, that’s quickly moving degree-plus temperatures took behind us and it’s time to look many of us back to summers we forward. Fall, or southbound would just as soon forget. migration, is already upon us. But the parade of first-time Numbers of some species have records or appearance of already fallen dramatically as uncommon and rare species will they have moved on for also be remembered for quite wintering grounds further south. some time. By the end of the Numbers of other species are year (depending on Kansas Bird increasing daily and many of us Records Committee action, of are anxiously awaiting those first course), we could have up to Dark-eyed Juncos or Harris’s three new species on the KOS Sparrows of fall. Which also Checklist. In early April a means that it’s time for the KOS Common Black-Hawk was fall meeting! sighted in Elkhart. That was A great group of folks in the followed by a Green Violet-ear Great Bend area have been A Crested Caracara showed up in in Riley County in June and a working hard to put together a Washington County, August 2. © Crested Caracara in Washington good fall meeting. Students and Warren Buss, 2011. County in early August. The last KOS members have been putting two have definitive photos and if (continued on page 2) President’s message, cont. together and polishing up papers water in the Bottoms to make for KOS Board of to be presented in the paper some really interesting field session (which reminds me that I trips. So dig further into this Directors http://www.ksbirds.org/ need to get mine finalized as issue of the Horned Lark, find well!). We will be meeting at the the registration information and •President Kansas Wetlands Education get your registration sent in Chuck Otte, 613 Tamerisk, Junction Center at Cheyenne Bottoms. If today! City, KS 66441; [email protected] you haven’t been to the KWEC, here’s a great opportunity to see •Vice-President this wonderful facility and meet Chuck Otte Henry Armknecht, the great folks who work there. [email protected] President In spite of dry weather this summer, I am hopeful that we’re •Corresponding Secretary still going to have adequate Gregg Friesen, 515 E. 4th, Newton, KS 67114; [email protected] •Membership Development Coordinator Patty Marlett, [email protected] •Treasurer Terry Mannell, 218 Northridge Drive, Hays, KS 67601; [email protected] While a Greater •Business Manager Roadrunner (right) Lisa Weeks, 208 Arizona Street, continued to reside Lawrence KS 66049; at the Great Bend [email protected] Cemetery this summer, a White •Editor, KOS Bulletin Ibis (below) showed Gene Young, Northern Oklahoma up unexpectedly at College, 1220 E. Grand Ave., Horsethief Reser- Tonkawa, OK 74653-0310; voir (Hodgeman [email protected], County) July 16. © Donnie Kazmaier, 2011. [email protected] •Editor, The Horned Lark Cheryl K. Miller, [email protected] •Past-President Nancy Leo, [email protected] •Board Members: Michael Andersen, [email protected] Bill Jensen, [email protected] John Bollin, [email protected] Rick Tucker, [email protected] © Gregg Friesen, 2011. 2 KOS fall meeting, September 30–Oct 2, 2011 Kansas Wetlands Education Center, Great Bend Join us for the fall meeting at the Kansas Wetlands Lodging Education Center on the southeast side of Cheyenne There are at least two weddings and a large class Bottoms Wildlife Area. The largest interior marsh of the reunion this same weekend in Great Bend, so early United States, Cheyenne Bottoms sits amidst a 60-square room reservations are advised. KOS has room blocks mile lowland basin in central Kansas. Host to about 45 at several hotels. Unless indicated, all hotels are in percent of North American shorebirds during spring Great Bend. migration, the Bottoms is the most important migration • Best Western Angus Inn (800) 862-6487, 2920 10th stopover site in the western hemisphere. Several St. Rates are $64.95–68.95 + tax. Cutoff date is threatened and endangered species, including Snowy September 16. Plovers, Piping Plovers, Whooping Cranes and Least • Cheyenne Bottoms Inn and Suites (620) 292-6022, Terns, may be found here during migration. 57 W. Highway 4, Hoisington. Rates are $62.00 + Friday, September 30 tax. Cutoff date is September 15th. • Comfort Inn (620) 793-9000, 911 Grant St. Rates 7:00-9:00 p.m.— Informal reception at KWEC. Light are $89.99–94.99 + tax. Cutoff date is September 9. refreshments served. • Travelers Budget Inn (620) 793-5448, 4200 10th St. Saturday, October 1 Rates $36.95–46.95 + tax. No cut off date. 9:00 a.m.—Registration begins at Dining KWEC. Great Bend has a variety of eating 9:00 a.m.—Welcome. establishments along 10th Street 9:10 a.m.—Business meeting. (U.S. 56/K-96). 9:30 a.m.–11:30—Paper session. 11:30–1:30 p.m.—Lunch on your own; Registration KOS board will meet in location to be The meeting registration fee is determined. $20; the Saturday evening banquet 1:30–2:30 p.m.—Birdwatchers' Hour. is $20 for those who paid the 2:30–4:00 p.m.—Paper session. Silent registration fee and $30 for those auction ends. who did not; the Sunday box lunch 4:00–4:30 p.m.—Business meeting. is $7. Unless presenting, students 6:00–6:30 p.m.—Social and “Birds of will pay a $5 registration fee. Reg- Kansas” book signing by authors at Barton Community istrations received after September 15 will carry a $10 College Student Union. surcharge. 6:30–9:00—Banquet. The registration form may be found on page 16. Our banquet speaker, Chris Wood, is the project All participants must sign the liability release in order manager for eBird, an online database for bird records. In to participate in any portion of this meeting. addition to his work at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Mail completed registration form and payment to Chris leads birding tours for WINGS. He is editor for the Terry Mannell, 218 Northridge, Hays, KS 67601. Colorado and Wyoming region of North American Birds, Silent auction the departmental editor of the Birding photo quiz, and the Members and guests are strongly encouraged to online photo quiz editor for the American Birding bring donated items for the Silent Auction. Suitable Association. He has written and consulted on various donations include birding-themed equipment, field books and popular and scientific literature on North guides, bird houses, bird baths and optics. All American birds. proceeds go to the KOS Student Research Fund. Sunday, October 2 6:30 a.m.—Half-day field trip locations may include Statement of non-profit status and copyright: The Cheyenne Bottoms, Quivira National Wildlife Refuge, Kansas Ornithological Society is a 501(c) 3 organization Cheyenne Scoutlands, Great Bend Cemetery and other created for the study, conservation and enjoyment of wild locations. birds. The Horned Lark is the membership newsletter of the Noon—Lunch and compilation at KWEC. society and all material contained herein is copyrighted. 3 Kansas spring season roundup March 1 – May 31 Mark Corder, compiler The headliner for this spring is number of reports of Cinnamon Birders were rewarded for their a Common Black-Hawk, a Teal and Red-breasted Mergansers. efforts in western counties with the potential first state record seen in Other good waterbird species number and variety of longspurs. the proximity of the Elkhart appearing in the state were Red- For example, 3,000 or more (Morton County) shelter belt on throated Loon, Western Grebe, Chestnut-collared Longspurs were April 10. The bird was observed Clark’s Grebe, Brown Pelican, tallied in nine counties at the end of only in flight, and unfortunately, no Neotropic Cormorant, Tri-colored March. photographs were taken. It was a Heron and Glossy Ibis. Twenty warbler species are in relatively brief encounter and Notable raptor reports during the spring roundup. Apart from the efforts to relocate the bird after the the spring were Black Vulture Painted Redstart, the rarer species initial sighting were not fruitful. A (Chautauqua County), Northern of warblers include Blue-winged, report has been submitted to the Goshawk (Shawnee County), 125 Golden-winged, Cape May, Black- Kansas Birds Records Committee. Swainson’s Hawks in a single day throated Blue, Townsend’s, Prairie, No decision has been made as of (Ford County), Golden Eagles (five Bay-breasted, Cerulean, Worm- the date of this report. counties), a “boreal” Merlin eating and Connecticut. The Also from Morton County, (Johnson County) and Peregrine Cerulean, now a very rare species Common Ravens have been Falcons (six counties). in Kansas, was a female seen in confirmed to be nesting with viable Survey work in the Flint Hills Oak Park, Wichita, on May 20. young at the work station north of produced impressive numbers of Significant portions of western Elkhart. DNA testing was utilized American Golden-Plovers (a high Kansas have been experiencing to make the determination because count of 2,203 in one day), Upland severe drought conditions. One of a large, all black bird in this area Sandpipers (573 in one day), and the apparent consequences is an could be a Chihauhuan Raven.
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