Loon Program Friday April 27, 2007 in Clinton, NY

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  • Boreal Chickadee
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    • Jul 2004
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    Loon Program Friday April 27, 2007 in Clinton, NY

    This should be a good program.The presenter has studied the loons on Stillwater reservoir for 30 years.

    Clinton is outside of Utica on the southwest edge.

    Loon Program on Friday April 27, 2007 7 pm

    Judith McIntyre PhD, who’s been studying loons for forty years,
    will be give a free program about “Loons” Friday, April 27 at 7 pm
    at the Kirkland Town Library in Clinton NY. The event is sponsored
    by Beavers: Wetlands & Wildlife (BWW), an educational nonprofit.
    Dr. McIntyre wrote The Common Loon, Spirit of Northern Lakes, a very
    readable classic with great photos. She took many of the evocative
    shots in the book and will show slides during her talk. She says of
    her April program: “I shall provide an overview of the loon family
    including geographical distribution, vocalizations, and of course,
    pictures….” She’ll also tell about her 30-year study on the
    Adirondack lake with the largest number of loons in New York, mention
    the most pressing concerns for loons, and give some encouraging signs
    over the last few decades.
    After the 1989 Exxon oil spill, Dr. McIntyre spent two summers in
    Alaska checking the status of the rare yellow-billed loon. She has
    also studied loons in Saskatchewan, Nevada, and at Chincoteague and
    Assateague Islands in Virginia. Last year she was featured in the PBS
    television documentary “Call of the Loon.”
    She earned her PhD from the University of Minnesota and studied loons
    in that state for ten years. For the last thirty years Dr. McIntyre’s
    major research site has been Stillwater Reservoir. She also taught at
    Utica College, where she received a Distinguished Teaching Award.
    This program will be in the Bristol Room of the Kirkland Town
    Library (551/2 College St., Clinton NY) with brief BWW elections
    first and refreshments served. For more information please call
    315/853-4147 or 518/568-2077.

    Sharon T. Brown
    518/568-2077
    Beavers: Wetlands & Wildlife
    Beavers: Wetlands & Wildlife is an educational nonprofit that has been helping people learn about a species that builds the land's best life support system - and about lasting, win-win solutions for beaver/human conflicts for over thirty years. Home Page
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  • Kevin
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    #2
    Neat. I know a certain moderator who's crazy for loons.

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    • Boreal Chickadee
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      • Jul 2004
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      #3
      Originally posted by Kevin
      Neat. I know a certain moderator who's crazy for loons.
      That's what I was thinking too!
      I'm already as far as Chittenango that day for a baseball game so it fits in nicely for me.
      Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass.
      It's about learning to dance in the rain.

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      • Kevin
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        #4
        Clinton's about 1.5 hours from here. Almost worth the trip.

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        • redhawk
          Senior Curmudgeon
          • Jan 2004
          • 10929

          #5
          Originally posted by Kevin
          Neat. I know a certain moderator who's crazy for loons.
          I know a couple who are just pain crazy, period.
          "If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it." Lyndon B. Johnson

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          • Kevin
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            #6
            Originally posted by redhawk
            I know a couple who are just pain crazy, period.
            I wasn't referring to Dick or Joanne...

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            • Rookie
              Dream Farmer
              • Apr 2005
              • 899

              #7
              Last Fall there was a giant number of loons found dead in Lake Ontario.
              The number was so mind boggeling ... I forgot ! It was bacteria contamination from lower in the food chain.
              At the time they we're wondering if there would be much of a loon population left in the Adirondacks since they were thinking that Lake Ontario was a stopping point for migrating loons.

              If this was discussed here already-sorry to waste your time folks !
              Last edited by Rookie; 04-11-2007, 10:55 AM. Reason: spelling
              What it is is in your head !

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              • Kevin
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                #8
                Clay, I think most of the ADK loons fly straight from the Adirondacks to the Atlantic and back each year.

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                • forevrwyld
                  Keith and Dad, Redfield Summit
                  • Feb 2005
                  • 197

                  #9
                  Everything you want to know about ADK Loons:



                  There should be a link in there to follow the migration of a banded bird. Kind of neat. A few years ago Keith and I participated in the loon survery, we went into Fish Pond and counted loons.

                  -george-
                  "The trail is what it is. If it goes up, over, under -- there is the choice to follow it or not. As for weather, it will be what it will be. One cannot choose conditions, only to hike or not to hike." AT Thru-Hiker

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                  • Edelweiss
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                    • Oct 2005
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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Kevin
                    I wasn't referring to Dick or Joanne...
                    I'm just getting around to reading this thread. HA HA HA, Kevin!
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                    • Rookie
                      Dream Farmer
                      • Apr 2005
                      • 899

                      #11
                      http://www.adirondackcouncil.org/Loons'%20water%20turns%20deadly.pdf

                      link to Loon Story I was talking about from Fall 2006.
                      What it is is in your head !

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                      • Boreal Chickadee
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                        • Jul 2004
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                        #12
                        Loon program at Cornell Lab of O Monday April 16th 7:30 pm

                        Things are getting pretty loony around here.

                        “Mercury and Migration: Conservation through the Lives of Adirondack Loons”
                        Nina Schoch, Adirondack Cooperative Loon Program

                        Nina will give an overview of the loon conservation efforts conducted in New York’s Adirondack Park by the Wildlife Conservation Society and its partners in the Adirondack Cooperative Loon Program. Beautiful photographs and video clips describe intriguing facts about common loons and their natural history, as well as the Loon Program’s research on the impact of environmental mercury pollution to these captivating birds and their aquatic habitats.

                        Cancelled to due to power outage at Lab of O
                        rescheduled to the fall
                        Last edited by Boreal Chickadee; 04-16-2007, 11:20 AM.
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                        It's about learning to dance in the rain.

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                        • Boreal Chickadee
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                          #13
                          The Clinton Loon program is tomorrow night (Friday night)
                          Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass.
                          It's about learning to dance in the rain.

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                          • Boreal Chickadee
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                            • Jul 2004
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                            #14
                            Interesting loon tidbits

                            With all the deaths of loons on the shores of the Great Lakes (over 1200 in 2006 found along Lake Ontario) caused by botulism, Ward Stone (state wildlife pathologist) has done many many autposies lately. A most interesting findng has been multiple holes in the breastbones of the male loons. I got to handle several cleaned samples of breastbones and the holes range from eraser head size to almost quarter size. I saw slides of the breastbones with meat still on the bones. The holes are caused by the loons, well, simply attacking each other in competition for territory and the lady loon. Those are bill stab holes. The wounds are bad enough to take the loon out of mating competition that year but not bad enough to kill him. Simply amazing!

                            When Stillwater Reservoir was lowered some of the loons went to the small back ponds to nest. In typical years before the lowering, 14 to 17 pairs of loons nested on Stillwater. The next year 5 pairs nested and last year it was up to 9 pairs. A slow return.

                            Last year I photographed a loon throwing himself on his back repeatedly for about half an hour. I asked about it and was told he was simply bathing himself. But it turns out that witnessing and photographing it was pretty unusual.
                            Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass.
                            It's about learning to dance in the rain.

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