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From: Lilith Mageborn<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 
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Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 11:53 AM
Subject: [CALBIRDS] Sanderling question


Hi, everyone, time to come out of lurkerdom and ask a question that's
been bothering me.

What has happened to the Sanderlings, by and large?  Whenever I summered
in Carpinteria (Santa Barbara Co.) from the end of the fifties to the
eighties, there were flocks of Sanderlings; they were an integral part of
the shoreline.  Ditto for coastal Orange Co. Now, from mid eighties to
the present, I don't think I've really seen more than a couple at a time
and the last time was in 1997 in Huntington Beach, before I started
birding.

I read somewhere (WildBirds or Birders World?) that a number of years
ago, the Sanderling population suffered a precipitous decline and
biologists don't know why. 

What has happened to the Sanderling population, and where may I find more
information about this problem?  I particularly love Sanderlings.

Thank you very much!

Sue Jorgenson
Anaheim CA





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