Ok - but that doesn’t diminish the importance of that record or your
involvement IMHO.
On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 8:22 PM Robert Lockett <robert.s.lockett@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The only reason my name is associated with Brown Thrasher records is thatSent from my iPhone - Jack Williamson
I've been volunteering to enter the Oregon Bird Record
Committee's accepted records in eBird. So I can say that there are 29
accepted Brown Thrasher records, but that as of 30 March 2013 this species
was removed from the review list, meaning that occurrences since that time
have not been tracked by the OBRC.
--Robert Lockett
On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 8:05 PM Alan Contreras <acontrer56@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
It’s true that Brown Thrasher is a semi-regular vagrant to Oregon, but it
is not necessarily easy to find. The one in Springfield was only the
second I have seen in Oregon. The first was maybe 40 years ago in Astoria.
Alan Contreras
Eugene, Oregon
acontrer56@xxxxxxxxx
www.alanlcontreras.com
On Dec 8, 2021, at 8:00 PM, Jack Williamson <jack.williamson.jr@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I was surprised by the seemingly mild level of interest in Lane county's
Brown Thrasher. My first thought was the heavy rain. Then I suspected
something else might be happening, so I downloaded the list of observations
in Oregon of the Brown Thrasher for all time from eBird.
Robert Lockett entered the earliest account of the species on 30
September 2021, dated 31 October 1974, at Malheur NWR--Headquarters. The
date of the most recent observation, as you are aware, is 4-5 December
2021.
For those of us who prefer to avoid evening math other than counting
sheep - the records in eBird span 47 years. On average, eBird records yield
observations of Brown Thrasher in 7 out of every ten years, which
translates to a total of 33 of the intervening years.
Someone realized this evening they just fell off the "turnip truck,"
Jack Williamson
West Linn
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