Phil,
   I have four Royal Tern sightings for DC in my database but none of them are Piedmont and all are in the fall.

Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD

 
---- Phil Davis <> wrote: 
> Bob, Rob, et al.
> 
> I've got three reports in the MD/DCRC database for DC.
> 
> 1. Go to our web pages here ... http://www.mdbirds.org/mddcrc/rcindex.html
> 
> 2. Go to the "Birds of DC" section.
> 
> 3. Take the link for the "DC Database."
> 
> 4. Do a "find" (or search) for "Royal". This will take you to the three 
> reports. One was provide by now defunct DC Records committee; the others 
> were provided by Marshall Iliff from his search of American Birds (and it's 
> successor publications).
> 
> Hope this helps ...
> 
> Phil
> 
> 
> At 16:19 04/28/2005, you wrote:
> >Rob,
> >    That's an extraordinary report. My database shows only three Piedmont 
> > records for Maryland, all in the fall, and none in DC. Could you see 
> > anything of the shape of the tail as the birds flew over?
> >
> >Bob Ringler
> >Eldersburg MD
> >
> >
> 
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