53 Articles Ontario Bird Records Committee Report for 1999 Kayo 1. Roy Introduction Checklist increased by one species This is the 18th Annual Report of this year with the addition of the Ontario Bird Records Heermann's GUll, raising the Committee (OBRC). It covers the provincial total to 473. Incredibly, activities of the OBRC during 1999 this bird was found along the when the Committee received and Toronto waterfront where it still reviewed 156 records of species on remains as this report is being pub the provincial Review List. Of this lished. Another exceptional obser total, 740/0 of the submissions were vation was a Gray-crowned Rosy accepted, and five records that Finch at Long Point Tip, the first required additional data or a more documented for southern Ontario. detailed review were referred to the No new breeding species for the 2000 Committee. The reports were province were added in 1999. sent in by a wide range of birders, All the records received by the both expert and novice, who for the OBRC are archived at the Royal most part submitted well written Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto. and thorough accounts, often Researchers and other interested including field notes and sketches. individuals are welcome to examine Photographs or video tapes were any of the filed reports at the ROM, also included with a substantial by appointment only. Please write number of submitted reports. Mark Peck, Centre for Biodiversity The members of the 1999 and Conservation Biology, Royal Committee were: Margaret Bain, Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Robert Curry (Chair), Robert Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2C6, E-mail: Dobos, Kevin McLaughlin, Doug
[email protected], or telephone 416 McRae, Ron Pittaway, Kayo Roy 586-5523.