[obol] Sept.-Nov. 2013 Blue-footed Boobies
- From: Range Bayer <range.bayer@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Oregon Birders OnLine <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Lincoln Co. Birding & Nature Observing" <LCBNO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 09:13:40 -0800
Hi,
While writing up the bird notes through Nov. 24 for Lincoln Co. in the
YB&N newsletter, I have been doing some more searching for Blue-footed
Booby records along the Pacific Coast in recent months. We had a
Lincoln Co. record with Bob & Shirley Loeffel's beached Blue-footed
Booby on Nov. 6 south of Newport; their report followed the single
dead Blue-footed Boobies that had been previously found on a Tillamook
Co. and a Clatsop Co. beach on 10/23 (Mark Elliott) and 10/31 (Meg
Ruby), respectively, and as reported to OBOL.
Blue-footed Boobies are rare in Oregon, since as of April 2012, there
is only 1 accepted record of them
(http://www.orbirds.org/acceptedthroughapril2012.pdf). 3 separate
ones this year in Oregon is rare.
However, this year was reported in mid-Sept. to be second only to 1972
as the largest invasion year of Blue-foots in California
(http://blog.aba.org/2013/09/abarare-blue-footed-boobies-california.html).
Since that published report in mid-Sept., eBird records indicate that
there have been many more reports in California as far north as Bodega
Head with live birds found into the last week of Nov. at Gull Rock
near San Francisco and further south in California (zoom out and drag
the eBird sightings map at http://bit.ly/16ChQwR to see the California
and Oregon coasts and click red icons to see records in the past 30
days). So it seems likely that this year was a record year in
California when records after mid-Sept. are included.
Live Blue-foots must have passed through Oregon waters because a live
one was found and photographed during a 9/24 whale-watching trip off
northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia
(http://blog.aba.org/2013/10/abarare-blue-footed-booby-british-columbia.html).
Interesting!
--
Range Bayer, Newport, Oregon
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