Greetings,
I'm forwarding the following for Ned Brinkley. He can be reached at
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Greetings all,
A paper on extralimital reports of Painted Bunting has been submitted to
North American Birds, a journal I work on, and it occurs to me that folks on
this
listserv could help out in checking the list of reports from Maryland. In
some
cases, there is no record of the plumage of the bird, or the dates are
incomplete or uncertain. If you've seen a Painted Bunting in Maryland,
could you
check the list to see if you're able to fill in any blanks? Anyone who
helps to
fill in a blank or make a correction will be acknowledged in the published
paper. (In the list below "green" means either a young male or a female;
"male"
means a bird in definitive adult male plumage; "unknown" means the plumage
details were not published.) A list for Delaware follows the Maryland
list, and if anyone has information on those birds, your help there would be
appreciated.
Thanks in advance for any assistance
Ned Brinkley
Cape Charles, VA
(see list below)
Maryland ~ 17 reports (MISSING ONE REPORT?)
unknown Worcester 31 Aug 1963
male Montgomery 18 Apr 1972
male Anne Arundel 26 Dec 1981–21 Jan 1982
unknown Worcester 29 Dec 1991–19 Apr 1992
green Kent 21 May 1992
unknown Prince George 28 Nov–2 Dec 1992
unknown St. Marys 8 Feb–4 Apr 1993
green St. Marys 18 Feb–2 Mar 1993 (?same?)
male Worcester 15 Feb–8 Apr 1993
male Cecil 13–19 Dec 1993
male Worcester 27 Dec 1993–5 Apr 1994
male Worcester 20–28 Jan 1995
male Frederick 21 May 2001 [‘14th record for state’]
male Harford 1 Mar–8 Apr 2002
male St. Mary’s 6–7 Aug 2002
green Talbot 2–16 Dec 2002
green Howard 15–24 Dec 2003
male St. Mary’s 8 May 2004
green Worcester 22 May 2004
Delaware ~ 11 reports
green Leipsic 22 Dec 1968
male Oceanview “late winter” 1987–1988
male Bombay Hook 19–24 Aug 1989
male near Millville 3 Dec 1989–5 Jan 1990
green near Lewes 19 May 1990
green Bombay Hook 4–9 Aug 1991
male Rehoboth Beach 2–11 Feb 1992
green Little Creek 28 Dec 1997
green near Dewey Beach 2 Jan 1999
unknown Prime Hook 2 Jan 2000
green Sussex 24 Feb 2003 and later
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Todd Michael Day
Jeffersonton, Virginia, USA
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