Guam Swiftlet

[David O. Matson]

Dear Chatters:

Does anyone have experience/information/guidance on seeing Guam
Swiftlet. Travel will be in April.

Thank you in advance.

DOM

David and Chris Matson (Cole and Erin away)
2024 Fairway Drive
Suffolk, Virginia 23433
d.matson@...

Mist over warmed toes
Wind shakes the skeleton trees
Daffodil tips show



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[Gail Mackiernan]

Hi David --

Are you looking for this species on Hawaii (there is a small introduced
population on Oahu) or in its native haunts? We saw a lot of them on Saipan
in 2008. (There were none on Guam). I don't know much about the Hawaiian
population but I'm sure one of the Chatters does. If you want specifics for
Saipan, I can direct you.

Gail Mackiernan
Silver Spring, MD

on 02/19/2010 1:58 PM, David O. Matson at d.matson@... wrote:

> Dear Chatters:
>
> Does anyone have experience/information/guidance on seeing Guam
> Swiftlet. Travel will be in April.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> DOM
>
> David and Chris Matson (Cole and Erin away)
> 2024 Fairway Drive
> Suffolk, Virginia 23433
> d.matson@...
>

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[Dr Ronald Orenstein]

Does the species survive at all on Guam, or have. The brown tree snakes eaten them all?

Sent from my iPhone

On Feb 19, 2010, at 4:37 PM, Gail Mackiernan <katahdinss@...> wrote:

Hi David --

Are you looking for this species on Hawaii (there is a small introduced
population on Oahu) or in its native haunts? We saw a lot of them on Saipan
in 2008. (There were none on Guam). I don't know much about the Hawaiian
population but I'm sure one of the Chatters does. If you want specifics for
Saipan, I can direct you.

Gail Mackiernan
Silver Spring, MD

on 02/19/2010 1:58 PM, David O. Matson at d.matson@... wrote:

Dear Chatters:

Does anyone have experience/information/guidance on seeing Guam
Swiftlet. Travel will be in April.

Thank you in advance.

DOM

David and Chris Matson (Cole and Erin away)
2024 Fairway Drive
Suffolk, Virginia 23433
d.matson@...


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[Gail Mackiernan]

Hi-

Supposedly a few Swiftlets may survive at the tip of Guam. This area is
mostly a military base and there are also supposed to be a few Marianas
Crows hanging on there, but we didn't have access so can't report.

We were on Guam in 2008 and did see some land birds -- 2 Micronesian
Starlings (native) and lots of Black Drongos (introduced) and Philippine
Turtle Doves. There were also many good shorebirds in some wetlands, so all
in all not a bad day. We did not see any snakes; they are nocturnal.
Probably because of the lack of birds, there were an inordinate number of
butterflies (of only a couple of species) and large spiders on Guam.

The contrast between Guam and Saipan is huge -- the latter is filled with
birds, including some of the most beautiful. Hope the snake does not gain a
foothold there!

Gail Mackiernan
Silver Spring, MD

 there. on 02/19/2010 4:58 PM, Dr Ronald Orenstein at
ron.orenstein@... wrote:

> Does the species survive at all on Guam, or have. The brown tree snakes eaten
> them all?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>

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