Gail, et al.

FYI. Mute Swan is no longer on the DC Review List, found here ...

         http://www.mdbirds.org/mddcrc/pdf/dcreview.pdf

Mute Swan is one of those odd review species in DC ... If you look at the 
MD/DCRC DC database, here ...

         http://www.mdbirds.org/mddcrc/pdf/dcdatabase.pdf

... and search for "Mute" you will see that there is only one accepted 
record (plus two "unreviewable" records--meaning that they were published 
but information was not provided to the committee to permit a review). 
After the first "good" Mute Swan record was reviewed and accepted by the 
committee, and the species was added to the "Official List of the Birds of 
DC" (also on our web pages), the decision was made to take it off of the DC 
review list. The rationale being that the bird is not really unusual for 
the coast plain and it is not reviewable on the other side of the DC/MD line.

There are several other species in the same situation, such as Golden Eagle 
... there is only one accepted record for this species; however, it is not 
on the DC review list either, for the same reasons.

Ah, the joys of being one of the few North American records committees to 
deal with two jurisdictions (NC/SC being the other, I think).

Thanks for keeping first and foremost in your mind, however ... <grin> !!!

Phil


At 08:12 12/22/2005, Gail B. Mackiernan wrote:
>Hi --
>
>At the Montgomery Bird Club meeting last night, Barry was told that a Mute 
>Swan had been seen on the DC CBC last Saturday --  (snip) Any further info 
>would be appreciated, and if it was actually in DC (and not over the line 
>in Virginia), Phil Davis may want to hear more about it.

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