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
=================================================== 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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