[Community_garden] mosquito eaters

[Libby J. Goldstein]

just google goat sucker (bird)
On Apr 29, 2007, at 10:20 PM, Dorene Pasekoff wrote:

>
>
> Lea wrote:
>
> <<I just learned in my naturalist class that the biggest mosquito  
> eating
> birds are not purple martins, but goatsuckers. . . they are nocturnal  
> insect
> feeders.  I don't know much else, but you might ask your Audabon  
> contacts
> about how to attract them. . . and pass the info along to the rest of  
> us.>>
>
> Um, I think you might want to find out a bit more about what the heck  
> bird
> we are looking for -- I put "goatsucker" into Google and got some very
> interesting hits about a Puerto Rican or Russian vampire!
>
> Here's the Wiki version:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupacabra
>
> If I see the anything that looks like the photo on Wiki (I think this  
> e-list
> scrubs photos so I can't scare you all by displaying it), I'm  
> hightailing it
> out of the garden IMMEDIATELY (although maybe it would help a lot with  
> our
> deer problem!).
>
> Dorene
>
> Dorene Pasekoff, Coordinator
> St. John's United Church of Christ Organic Community Garden and  
> Labyrinth
>
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