Brendan, The North American chicken run sounds like a terrific project. In the mean time please give us a report on your Alaskan birding trip. Re BBBQ at Inskip, although I stand by the apparent shrinkage of the area at the well-known site being ‘plateletised’, what a difference time-of-day makes: the birds are much easier to hear scratching about at sunrise, and I had four sightings of busy little beavers chugging about within a half-hour. John W On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 12:30:48 -0700, brendan cook <bcook84@hotmail.com> wrote: >This got me thinking, would it be possible to complete a non-lethal Grouse >Grand Slam with all 7 North American grouse species (12 species if you include >ptarmigan and prairie-chicken) being observed during the breeding season in >one short, say 2week trip? >From what I can gather this would involve crossing through at least 4 states >(Washington, Idaho, Colorado, Kansas and maybe even venturing across the >boarder into British Columbia) It’s usually called a “Chicken Run” normally consisting of an April trip to the four corners of Colorado where it is possible to get Sharp-tailed Grouse Greater Prairie-Chicken Lesser Prairie-Chicken Greater Sage-Grouse Gunnison Sage-Grouse Dusky Grouse White-tailed Ptarmigan With a summer trip to Alaska one could reasonably add Willow Ptarmigan Rock Ptarmigan Spruce Grouse Ruffed Grouse To add Sooty Grouse would require a separate trip to one of the Pacific states or British Columbia. Colorado “Chicken Runs” are quite popular and lots of fun but getting all 12 species in a single two-week trip would be crazy. — Joseph Morlan, Pacifica, CA “It turns out we’re very good at not seeing things” – Jack Hitt John Weigel AM Australian Reptile Park PO 737 Gosford NSW 2250 (02) 4340 1022 jweigel@reptilepark.com.au www.reptilepark.com.au www.devilark.com.au _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org
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