With permission from the Ontbirds coordinator - As everyone is aware there has been a large influx of Great Gray Owls into southern Ontario this winter. I was wondering if I could bother everyone for a large favour. If anyone finds great gray casualties we would be very interested in obtaining them for the Royal Ontario Museum.
The last invasion in 1995/1996 ended up with many of the owls becoming roadside casualties. We would like to try to take advantage of this years owl movement/mortalities and get as many as we can into the ROM for a number of reasons: -research on ageing and sexing of great grays -obtaining feather samples for future isotope work - allowing us to determine where the birds were geographically when their feathers were grown -obtaining tissue samples for future molecular work -specimens for collections and for educational programming both at the ROM and through other institutions -mounts for galleries at the ROM or in other institutions I hate the thought of these birds being wasted. I have received one owl so far but it was badly damaged and we were unable to use it for the collections. Please contact me privately or contact the Ministry of Natural Resources in your area to see if they would be willing to accept the bird. Many thanks in advance for your assistance with this matter. Sincerely, Mark Peck Ornithology/Department of Natural History Royal Ontario Museum 100 Queen's Park Toronto, ON Canada M5S 2C6 416 586 5523 fax 416 586 5553 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jan 12 18:07:58 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts5.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.25]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C37EBA85F for <[email protected]>; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:07:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from sympatico.ca ([64.228.114.21]) by tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:07:51 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:07:00 -0500 From: Bob Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ontbirds <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Ontbirds]Appeal for help X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 23:07:58 -0000 This special message is being sent with the kind permission of the Ontbirds Co-ordinator, Mark Cranford. My sister, Camille Ross, has been missing from her home in Guelph since Dec. 27. She disappeared in her car, which is a white 1999 Toyota Corolla, Licence AERZ 618. Camille has been severely depressed and we are extremely concerned. The police have opened a missing persons file, and placed appeals in the local newspaper. After 16 days the case boils down to a search for the car. It is quite likely parked or abandoned in a remote location within a 2 hour drive of Guelph. As you drive around the back roads looking for winter birds, please keep an eye open for a white Toyota Corolla Licence AERZ 618. If you find it please contact the Guelph Police at 519-824-1212, or me at the number below. My thanks in advance for your help at a very difficult time. Bob Ross 82 Mossgrove Trail, Toronto 416-445-2579
