[obol] Re: Nashville Warblers (was: more Eugene migrants)
- From: Jeff Gilligan <jeffgilligan10@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: contopus@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 23:26:55 -0700
On Apr 20, 2014, at 11:15 PM, "Wayne Weber" <contopus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Oregon birders,
>
> As someone who does a lot of birding around Vancouver, BC and Bellingham, WA,
> I can assure you that Nashville Warblers are not regular breeders anywhere in
> the Puget Trough in Washington or southwestern BC. They do breed in small
> numbers around Hope, BC and between Newhalem and the Ross Dam in WA, which
> are on the west side of the Cascades, but they are uncommon in this area.
> Once one crosses over to the east side of the Cascades, they become one of
> the commonest breeding birds, mostly in Douglas-fir forest from about 2000 to
> 4000 or 5000 feet altitude, as far north as the Williams Lake area of BC.
> Their breeding distribution does not seem to have changed much in recent
> years.
>
> Around Vancouver, Nashvilles are regular but rare migrants in both spring and
> fall. Most records are of single birds, but I have on rare occasions recorded
> 2 or 3 birds in a day. However, it does not surprise me to hear that they are
> much commoner migrants around Eugene, considering that much of their breeding
> range lies north of Eugene, and that they are very common over much of that
> range.
>
> Wayne C. Weber
> Delta, BC
> contopus@xxxxxxxxx
>
> For clarification, my recollection of what I was told is that they had been
> found on a breeding survey in recent years that Clarke and someone else have
> done for 20 years or so, but that in the early years of doing the survey
> they had found none. I think he said that they were in regenerating clear
> cut forests on the western slope of the Cascades, near Bellingham, though
> not in the Puget Trough.
Jeff Gilligan
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