Date: 5/6/26 2:29 pm From: Kent McFarland <kmcfarland...> Subject: [VTBIRD] The Vermont Bird Records Committee 2025 Annual Report
The 45th annual report of the VBRC covers the evaluation of 36 records
involving 22 species and one subspecies. Ninety-four percent of the records
were accepted with the majority decided unanimously. A highlight of 2025
was Vermont’s first state record of Purple Gallinule (Porphyrio
martinicus), found under unlikely circumstances — a homeowner in Lincoln,
roused by his barking dog around 4 a.m. on January 2, discovered the bird
walking along a snow-covered deck railing. The year also produced the
state’s first accepted record of the Ipswich subspecies of Savannah Sparrow
(Passerculus sandwichensis princeps).
