[wisb] Purple Gallinule Dates

From: "Bob Domagalski" <rcd2@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Wis Birdnet" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:31:24 -0500
    At present, there are 16 valid state records for the Purple Gallinule.  It 
has been nearly 16 years since the last find (a specimen) and better than 26 
years since the last gallinule sighting from which state birders might have had 
an opportunity to observe the bird.  Thus, for the majority of birders, the 
current find has likely been their first chance for this species.  In a summer 
already marked by a number of unusual finds, this adds another to the list.  
Previous to this sighting, there was but one Wisconsin summer record -- that 
being on June 15 and 16 in 1977 in Milwaukee.

        -- Bob Domagalski, Menomonee Falls
    

1.      Sept. 24,  1939  --  Grant;  Ben Logan

2.      April 21,  1944  --  Dodge;  Watson Beed & Russell Neugebauer (2 birds)

3.      May 5,  1956  --  Milwaukee;  Dixie L. Larkin (capture & photo)

4.      May 18,  1956  --  Dane;  William L. Hilsenhoff

5.      May 3-12,  1969  --  Racine;  Richard Garber

6.      April 27,  1973  --  Racine;  Michael McGhee (specimen)

7.      April 27,  1973  --  Waukesha;  Bruce Spangenberg

8.      April 30,  1973  --  Marquette;  Owen J. Gromme

9.      May 2,  1973  --  Florence;  Gary Pearson (specimen at Arnold Pearson 
home, Florence Co.)

10.  April 18  to  May 5,  1976  --  Sheboygan;  Harold Koopmann (photo)

11.  April 23,  1976  --  Ozaukee;  Charles M. Weise (addition to Birdlife)

12.  June 15-16,  1977  --  Milwaukee;  Don Hanbury

13.  April 25  to  May 9,  1981  --  Milwaukee;  Eugene Cupertino (photos)

14.  May 5-9,  1983  --  Milwaukee;  John H. Idzikowski (addition to Birdlife) 
(captured)

15.  May 8,  1993  --  Kenosha;  Ronald R. Hoffmann

16.  Oct. 16,  1993  --  Milwaukee;  John Jonas (specimen)

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