Date: 11/3/24 2:18 pm From: Brian Fitch via groups.io <fogeggs...> Subject: Re: [SFBirds] 2024 City List reaches 307 as of the end of October - 4 away from record
Thanks David,
The Mountain Plovers aren’t mentioned in the post title, but Paul did
report our sighting on 11/29/09 under the title “Tundra Swans + Interesting
Shorebirds…” and he writes that Mountain Plover was the best candidate
matching the two birds. All four of us were still gainfully employed in
‘09, and it took awhile for each of us to independently research the
sighting and rule out similar species. We then shared notes and submitted
them to NABirds, since the CBRC doesn’t review out of place Mountain Plover
sightings. But our report was not published, and the record fell through
the cracks between disjointed information systems. I don’t think eBird was
being used locally back then, if it existed.
Brian Fitch
On Sun, Nov 3, 2024 at 12:59 PM David Assmann via groups.io <david_assmann=
<yahoo.com...> wrote:
> You are correct on the fall record of the Pileated - I will change that on
> the website. As for the Mountain Plover from 2009, the last reference to
> this sighting was in early 2010, when the sighting was described on SFBirds
> as pending confirmation. The two references I've been using for prior
> sightings have been Hugh Cotter's database and eBird. I will routinely
> include a search of SFBirds as well, going forward for any "first"
> sightings.
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