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Post by another specialist on Jan 18, 2006 9:30:12 GMT
I've just notice you have uploaded to image gallery missed a word it's meant to say the following - I've just notice you have uploaded some to image gallery I mean't generally not specifically the labrador. Hope Peter uploads them all for us to see your work. |
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Post by bobthebirder on Mar 4, 2006 1:25:42 GMT
Actully, in the book Hope is the Thing with Feathers, by Christopher Cokinos, there was a Labrador Duck sighting on August 9, 1891. A Bowdoin College Labrador Expedition sighted a female and her brood. One of the men was certain that the birds were labrador ducks. However, they were unable to relocate the birds and on the day that they saw them they did not have a gun to ubtain a specimen with. Does anyone think that this sighting could have been of an actual Labrador Duck?
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Post by sebbe67 on Mar 5, 2006 14:02:21 GMT
That is possibly as there was unconfirmed reports in the early 2oth as well, a poorly documented species.
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Post by bobthebirder on Mar 5, 2006 16:14:08 GMT
Really? I didn't know that it was sighted in the 20th century. Is there a site on the internet that has any information on the sightings? Or a book?
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Post by Bowhead Whale on Mar 8, 2006 20:37:11 GMT
Yes, I think too it could have been a Labrador's duck. Just remember the Takahe bird rediscovered 50 years after it had been claimed officially extinct!
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Post by bobthebirder on Mar 10, 2006 20:35:21 GMT
Thats good, I always wondered about the possibility of the labrador duck surviving after 1878. But does anyone have any information on any other late sightings of this bird?
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Post by Melanie on Apr 6, 2006 22:23:36 GMT
Labrador Duck: My Theory
As you probably know, the last Labrador Duck Specimen was taken in 1878 at Elmira, New York. The accepted theory on why a Sea Duck was found inland is that a recent storm blew it there. Possible, but I have another possible reason. The book, Hope is the Thing with Feathers by Christopher Cokinos states that a few reports of the species claim that it migrated through Pennsylvania. This I believe is true. The city of Elmira sits the Susquehanna River, which is a major river that runs through Pennsylvania, and drains into the Chesapeake Bay, where some Labrador Ducks were known to winter. I believe that the bird, migrating down the river to the Chesapeake bay to winter, became injured near the town of Elmira, where it was forced to stay. Somehow, it escaped notice until December 12th, when it was shot. Does anyone agree with me? Here is a map of the River System I am talking about, and the route the Labrador Duck Probably Migrated is in Yellow:
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Post by another specialist on May 1, 2006 22:00:11 GMT
 another pic from computer |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2007 14:20:27 GMT
ups, sorry, just saw the date the photo was taken, no Labrador Ducks.  |
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Post by another specialist on Jul 24, 2007 19:41:06 GMT
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Post by Melanie on Sept 6, 2007 13:23:16 GMT
 Source: THE DUCKS, GEESE AND SWANS OF NORTH AMERICA - A vade mecum FOR THE NATURALIST AND THE SPORTSMAN by FRANCIS H. KORTRIGHT 1942 (1953 Reprint) |
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Post by sebastian on Dec 29, 2007 2:18:36 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Feb 25, 2008 19:08:37 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Jul 20, 2008 4:32:28 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Jul 25, 2008 7:50:10 GMT
 Extinct birds : an attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times : that is, within the last six or seven hundred years : to which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction (1907) |
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Post by Carlos on Jul 25, 2008 14:29:02 GMT
Perhaps de sole data about the nesting habits and grounds of this duck, found in the Labrador Journal of John James Audubon and published by his great doughter:
Audubon, M. R. (1897). Audubon and his Journals. Vol I.
In July 28th, 1833, while near a small village on the coast of Labrador (51ºN), he writes:
"The Pied Duck breeds here on the top of the low bushes, but the season is so far advanced we have not found its nests."
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Post by another specialist on Jul 26, 2008 8:56:33 GMT
The name of the Labrador Duck refers to the alleged breeding area, the Labrador district on the northeast coast of Canada, although neither nests nor eggs have ever identified there with certainty. There is a report of a nest of the Labrador Duck on Labrador from the son of John James Audubon, who’s name was John too. However there is still much discussion on where the breeding grounds exactly were. It has therefore been suggested that the breeding grounds may have been further north or perhaps on isolated islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. www.petermaas.nl/extinct/speciesinfo/labradorduck.htm |
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Post by another specialist on Jul 26, 2008 9:04:27 GMT
Labrador Duck Camptorhynchus labradorius (Gmelin) Status Extinct. Formerly a regular visitor along our coast in winter. According to Audubon (1839), Professor McCulloch of Pictou procured several in his neighbourhood. Later, a male and female from the McCulloch collection were said to have been presented to the Dalhousie University Museum (Downs 1886), where they were on display for many years. According to Lloyd (1920), who examined both specimens, the female was an American Scoter, but whether it had been originally misidentified or subsequently exchanged is not known. The male, still the property of Dalhousie University, is in the National Museum of Canada, having been loaned to that institution in 1968 as the only extant specimen of the species in Canada. Other specimens from around Halifax are rather confusingly discussed by Gilpin (1880, 1882b), Jones (1885), Downs (1886, 1888) and Dutcher (1891, 1894). According to McLaren (1985) it seems that only two birds (not the three or four inferred by Gilpin 1880) were actually collected one purchased in the Halifax market in 1852 that ended up in the Brewster Collection at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and another taken at about the same time and sent to a Colonel Drummond in Scotland. Remarks Very little is known of the life history of this bird, and the causes that led to its extinction are not understood. Possibly it was a colonial nesting species and therefore particularly vulnerable. Perhaps never abundant, the colonies may have been raided systematically year after year by natives and fishermen who took the eggs for food, thus seriously interfering with normal reproduction. It is generally believed that its extinction was not the result of overshooting. The last definite record is on 12 December 1878, when one was shot at Elmira, New York. museum.gov.ns.ca/mnh/nature/nsbirds/bns0069.htm |
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Post by another specialist on Dec 24, 2008 9:33:08 GMT
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