Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sunybcs!dmark From: dmark@sunybcs.UUCP Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: What is rare? Message-ID: <6972@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 10:36:45 EST Article-I.D.: sunybcs.6972 Posted: Thu Dec 3 10:36:45 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Dec-87 16:29:51 EST References: <1822@leadsv.UUCP> Sender: nobody@sunybcs.UUCP Reply-To: dmark@joey.UUCP (David Mark) Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Geography Lines: 26 Keywords: rare birds In article <1822@leadsv.UUCP> chris@leadsv.UUCP (Chris Salander) writes: > > How can you tell that a particular bird is not suppose to >be in your area? The bird books talk about general ranges. But >birds out of place seems to be a hot topic. > > Ex: During this summer I saw at least two Northern >Waterthrushes. I though nothing of it, (other than "what a cute >bird"). Then recently I started getting the local Audobon >newsletter. It in they site the discovery of a Northern Waterthrush >as something exceptional and worth reporting. (For our area). >Is there an accumulated record of appearances? > For California (as well as Oregon, Washington, B.C., and Alaska) I recommend Don Roberson's excellent book "Rare Birds of the West Coast". I don't know of an equivalent single source for the rest of the country. Roberson published the book himself. I can look up the publisher information at home if there is interest. David Mark geodmm@ubvms.BITNET dmark@joey.cs.buffalo.edu dmark@buffalo