check out this story of an asian bird discovered in California. this is only the second North American record outside of Alaska.
Steve ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Christopher Wood <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 7:57 AM Subject: Re: Red-flanked Bluetail on San Clemente To: [email protected] There is an entertaining story about finding the bird and the subsequent chase on eBird from Jethro Runco who found the bird and Justyn Stahl, who is coordinating field work on San Clemente Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus mearnsi) for the Institute for Wildlife Studies. http://ebird.org/content/ebird/news/RFBL_CA Best, Chris Wood eBird & Neotropical Birds Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York http://ebird.org http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Robert McNab <[email protected]> wrote: > According to the "Rare Birds of California" book published by the Western Field Ornithologists (WFO) and edited by Hamilton, Patten and Erickson (2007), there is one previous accepted record in California, 01 November 1989 at SE Farallon Is. (Northern California) That California record at the time was the only North American record outside of Western Alaska, according to the book. Pretty exciting stuff - great bird. There is a photo of the bird on the WFO website: http://www.westernfieldornithologists.org/ > > Robert McNab > Laguna Niguel, California > > >> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 18:28:31 -0700 >> From: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [BIRDCHAT] Fw: Red Flanked Bluetail spotted on San Clemente Island off Southern California coast >> To: [email protected] >> >> The subject bird is in the California and Alaska state checklists and >> the ABA North America checklist. >> >> Jerry >> >> >Good Afternoon Birdchatters.=A0 I don't know if many=A0members of this list= >> >serve are aware of this, but a Red Flanked Bluetail has been sighted & phot= >> >ographed on San Clemente Island a Governmentaly owned=A0and militarily oper= >> >ated island, off the very southern most area of Southern California. I have= >> > no idea of any other North American sightings of this species. Just though= >> >t I'd pass this little tidbit of information to all you other birdchatters. >> >=A0 >> >Good Birding >> >John Small >> >Torrance, CA >> >> >> >> Jerry Blinn >> Perceptive Systems >> Placitas, NM >> 505-867-6255 >> [email protected] >> Web Site: http://www.avisys.net >> >> BirdChat Guidelines: http://www.ksbirds.org/birdchat/ >> Archives: http://listserv.arizona.edu/archives/birdchat.html > > BirdChat Guidelines: http://www.ksbirds.org/birdchat/ > Archives: http://listserv.arizona.edu/archives/birdchat.html BirdChat Guidelines: http://www.ksbirds.org/birdchat/ Archives: http://listserv.arizona.edu/archives/birdchat.html -- Steve Weston [email protected] ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
