"Rare birds of MD"

MHoff36100@aol.com
Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:42:31 EST


MD Birders -

I thought some list members might find this of interest, particularly those MD
rarity aficionados. I'll be giving a slide show to the Baltimore Bird Club
this coming Tuesday, February 3rd, at 7:30 pm, at Cylburn Mansion in Baltimore
on "Rare Birds of Maryland" (really rare to uncommon birds of Maryland).  I
believe the meeting is open to everyone.

To wet your appetite, here's the species that will be covered (all
photographed by myself in MD):

Red-necked Grebe
Western Grebe
Northern Fulmar
Greater Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Anhinga
White Ibis
Greater White-fronted Goose
Ross' Goose 
Tufted Duck
Common Eider
Harlequin Duck
Tufted Duck
Barrow's Goldeneye
Gryfalcon
Sandhill Crane
Am. Golden Plover
Wilson's Plover
Black-necked Stilt
Am. Avocet
Hudsonian Godwit
Marbled Godwit
Baird's Sandpiper
Curlew Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Ruff
Red-necked Phalarope
Parasitic Jaeger
Long-tailed Jaeger
Pomarine Jaeger
Great Skua
Black-headed Gull
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Glaucous Gull
Black-legged Kittiwake
Gull-billed Tern
Sandwich Tern
Roseate Tern
Bridled Tern
Dovekie
Thick-billed Murre
N. Saw-whet Owl
Selasphorus hummingbird
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Gray Kingbird
Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Sedge Wren
Rock Wren
Townsend's Solitaire
Bohemian Waxwing
Northern Shrike
Loggerhead Shrike
Philadelphia Vireo
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped (Audubon's) Warbler
Painted Bunting
Dickcissel
Clay-colored Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Lark Bunting
Le Conte's Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Brewer's Blackbird
Hoary Redpoll



Regards,

Mark Hoffman
Sykesville, MD
Mhoff36100@aol.com