[Ads-l] Coxsackie screw-in grasslands preserve

[Peter Reitan]

auto-fill error for creek?

The poster saw a hoary redpoll in the Coxsackie Creek Grasslands 
Preserve?

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From: "Andy Bach" <afbach at gmail.com>
To: ADS-L at listserv.uga.edu
Sent: 2/5/2019 11:26:16 AM
Subject: Re: Coxsackie screw-in grasslands preserve

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>A type of bird?
>and at least one Hoary Redpoll in the field north of the SaveALot in
>Coxsackie, NY
>(Greene County.). This area is part of the Coxsackie screw-in grasslands
>preserve.
>https://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/msg25367.html
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>or a small mammal
>"after hearing my descriptions of the animal and the habitat, gave me 3
>species to google- 2 voles, and a screw."t
>https://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/msg04333.html
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>Perhaps it's a typo for "screw-stem"
>https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/bartonia/paniculata/
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>There's screw fern, but that's Australian
>https://grasslands.ecolinc.vic.edu.au/fieldguide/flora/screw-fern
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>and "screw bean"
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>On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 12:23 PM George Thompson <george.thompson at nyu.edu>
>wrote:
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>>  What the hell can a "*screw-in* grasslands" be?
>>
>>  There's at least one, in Coxsackie, Greene county, New York.  I may go up
>>  there soon to check it out.
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>>  GAT
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