<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Thank you Peggy! I should have checked the FAQs! <div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Karen Wosilait (she/her)<div>Seattle, WA<br><div>karen.w.mobile@gmail.com</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 17, 2024, at 2:57 PM, Peggy Mundy <peggy_busby@yahoo.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="ydpe2c4f61dyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">This is copied from the eBird FAQs:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p data-identifyelement="577" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 18px; padding-top: 4px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><strong data-identifyelement="578">If I see baby grouse, baby geese, or baby shorebirds that cannot yet fly, what code should I use?</strong></p><p data-identifyelement="579" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 18px; padding-top: 4px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Use "FL". They are fledged in the sense that they have left the nest, which is typical for the young of “precocial” species. "FL" should be used until young birds become independent of their parents, since it is safe to assume that they are near the nesting site until that point.</p><p data-identifyelement="580" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 18px; padding-top: 4px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><br data-identifyelement="581" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"></p></div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="ydpe2c4f61dsignature"><div style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><img title="Emoji" alt="Emoji" height="16" src="https://s.yimg.com/nq/yemoji_assets/latest/yemoji_assets/1f4f7.png" width="16" style="padding:0px 2px;vertical-align:middle;" class="ydpe2c4f61dyahoo-emoji-wrapper" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true" data-unique-identifier=""><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">peggy_busby@yahoo.com</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">@scenebypeggy on Instagram</div></div></div></div>
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On Monday, June 17, 2024 at 02:08:47 p.m. PDT, Dan McDougall-Treacy via Tweeters <tweeters@u.washington.edu> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp83d91c48yiv8999767663"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Karen, I think of fledging as ready for departing the nest and independent movement (applied to shorebirds, waterfowl, alcids?) . I'd go with the FL code.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Dan MT, the improved hombre</div><div><br clear="none"></div></div><br clear="none"><div id="ydp83d91c48yiv8999767663yqt91525" class="ydp83d91c48yiv8999767663yqt1148078085"><div class="ydp83d91c48yiv8999767663gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="ydp83d91c48yiv8999767663gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 12:17 PM Karen Wosilait via Tweeters <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;" class="ydp83d91c48yiv8999767663gmail_quote">I was at Soap Lake yesterday hoping to see the Willet that has been there. Instead I saw an American Avocet with 3 young, still fuzzy with shorter stubbier bills (relative to an adult).<br clear="none">
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I thought I’d add a breeding code to my eBird checklist. “Recently fledged” didn’t seem right since they couldn’t fly. Would “recently hatched” be the right term for a fluffy shorebird that can’t yet fly? <br clear="none">
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