Phil,
My database shows about a dozen records for DC, most from the 1880s and 1890s. Apparently it was a rare but regular migrant then. They were published in The Auk, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, or Kirkwood. The latest was 1925.
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Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD
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From: Phil Davis <>
> OK ... both feet are wounded ... that should be 1890 (not 1980) for
> the C.W. Richmond historical DC record ... Thanks, Dave M.!
>
> BTW ... this was record was missing from our database, that's why I
> first missed it. I've captured it now ... so there is a silver lining ...
>
> Phil
>
>
> At 17:35 01/23/2007, Phil Davis wrote:
> >Mary, et al.
> >
> >Too fast on the trigger ... I shot myself in the foot ...
> >
> >One correction ... Bewick's Wren IS on the Official List of the
> >Birds of DC. Stewart and Robbins (1958) indicates a record by C.W.
> >Richmond from 1980. Since includes it on the DC baseline list. |