Greetings all,
A paper on extralimital reports of Painted Bunting has been submitted to
North American Birds, a journal I work on, and it occurs to me that folks on
this
listserv could help out in checking the list of reports from Virginia. These
begin in 1925 and end with the bird in Chesapeake (through today). In some
cases, there is no record of the plumage of the bird, or the dates are
incomplete or uncertain. If you've seen a Painted Bunting in Virginia, could
you
check the list to see if you're able to fill in any blanks? Anyone who helps
to
fill in a blank or make a correction will be acknowledged in the published
paper. (In the list below "green" means either a young male or a female; "male"
means a bird in definitive adult male plumage; "unknown" means the plumage
details were not published.) One Eastern Shore report, at Karen Terwilliger's
house, is missing - would love to get that one!
Thanks in advance for any assistance
Ned Brinkley
Cape Charles, VA
(see list below)
PAINTED BUNTING REPORTS IN VIRGINIA
male Brunswick 25 Jun 1925
green Blacksburg 25 May 1940
green Blacksburg 7 Sep 1943
unknown Newport News 22 Jun 1951
green Norfolk Nov 1965âearly Apr 1966
green Norfolk mid-Dec 1966âearly Apr 1967
unknown Virginia Beach 20 Mar 1972
male; green Fairfax 6 May 1972
unknown Norfolk 8 Jan 1973
male; green Portsmouth 24â25 Feb 1973
male Virginia Beach 12 Mar 1973
unknown Newport News 4â20 Jan 1974
unknown Salem 12â20 Mar 1974
unknown Radford 19 Oct 1977
unknown Portsmouth 7â21 March 1978
male (dead) Norfolk 13 Jul 1981 [*ODU]
green York 28 Marâ6 Apr 1983
male Virginia Beach Dec 1988â27 Mar 1989
unknown Virginia Beach Dec 1989â3 Mar 1990
male Newport News Jan 1991
male York 5â6 Jan 1992
male Virginia Beach 25 Jan 1992
unknown Augusta 15â23 Apr 1993
male Norfolk 10 Janâ6 Feb 1994
unknown Goochland 18 May 1994
male Mathews 31 Dec 1995â20 Jan 1996
male Virginia Beach 2 Jan 1996
male Charlottesville 1 Janâ22 Mar 1998
green Virginia Beach 11 Jan 1998
male; 2 green Virginia Beach 1 Febâ11 Mar 1998
unknown Chesapeake 14â16 Feb 1998
male Northampton 12 May 1999
green Virginia Beach 27 Dec 1999âMar 2000
male Lancaster 27 Dec 2000â4 Jan 2001
male; 2+green Virginia Beach Dec 2000 and later
green Northampton 30 Dec 2000
male Northampton 23 Febâ12 Apr 2002
male; green Virginia Beach 15â31 Dec 2002 and later
2 unknown Virginia Beach Dec 2002âJan 2003
male Chesapeake 5â11 Feb 2005 (+)
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