Date: 12/3/12 9:58 am
From: Phil Davis <pdavis...>
Subject: [MDBirding] Virginia's Warbler added to the Official List of the Birds of MD


MD Birders:

The MD/DC Records Committee has accepted Virginia's Warbler onto the
Official List of the Birds of Maryland based on the bird that Jim
Stasz and Ed Boyd found at Pickering Creek Audubon Center in Easton,
Talbot County, MD earlier this year. The bird was "officially"
present from 26 Jan through 25 Mar 2012, although it was probably
also seen about three weeks earlier. This brings the total number of
species on the official Maryland list to 445.

This has been a banner year for adding new species to the Maryland
list. In addition to the Virginia's Warbler, in 2012 we have also
added Pink-footed Goose, Barnacle Goose, White-tailed Kite, Green
Violetear, Bell's Vireo, and Cassin's Sparrow. (Note that not all of
these species were not necessarily observed in 2012, for example, the
White-tailed Kite record was based on a re-opened report of a bird
observed at the Town Hill hawk watch (Allegany County) in October 1990.

Over the past few months, we have also made much progress on tasks
related to our historical canvass of "reviewable" bird reports and
records. Work was completed in canvassing data from the following
sources: the Bird Banding Lab (BBL) database and records; the
Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) database, published accounts of extinct
and extirpated species, and a review of the Patuxent Wildlife
Research Center (PWRC) archives from the 1930s through the 1970s.
This canvass has added many new data records to the MD/DCRC database.
These new entries are now included in our MD and DC databases.

Updates to our related web products have been posted, thanks to MOS
Webmaster John Christy. These updates can be found on our MD/DCRC web
page here ...

http://www.mdbirds.org/mddcrc/rcindex.html


Direct links to the key updates are here ...

Official List of the Birds of Maryland ...
http://www.mdbirds.org/mddcrc/pdf/mdlist.pdf

Chronology of species added to the Maryland list ...
http://www.mdbirds.org/mddcrc/pdf/mdchron.pdf

Maryland Review List ...
http://www.mdbirds.org/mddcrc/pdf/mdreview.pdf

MD/DCRC Maryland Database (abridged version) ... [a large
PDF document you can search and find, but please do not print!] ...
http://www.mdbirds.org/mddcrc/pdf/mddatabase.pdf

MD/DCRC DC Database (abridged version) ...
http://www.mdbirds.org/mddcrc/pdf/dcdatabase.pdf


Good birding!

Phil


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Phil Davis, Secretary
MD/DC Records Committee
2549 Vale Court
Davidsonville, Maryland 21035 USA
301-261-0184
mailto:<PDavis...>

MD/DCRC Web site: http://www.MDBirds.org/mddcrc/rcindex.html
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