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WB-43(2)-Webcomp.Pdf Volume 43, Number 2, 2012 The California Condor in Northwestern North America Brian E. Sharp ..........................................................................54 Abundance and Site Fidelity of Migratory Birds Wintering in Riparian Habitat of Baja California Steven C. Latta, Horacio de la Cueva, and Alan B. Harper ..................................90 NOTES Type Locality and Early Specimens of the Mountain Chickadee T. R. Jervis .............................................................................102 Recent Nesting and Subspecies Identity of the Merlin in Idaho Bruce A. Haak and Scott Sawby ..............................................105 Book Review Kimball L. Garrett .................................................109 Featured Photo: First Documentation of a Juvenile Red-necked Stint for the Lower 48 States Todd B. Easterla and Lisa Jorgensen .................................................................112 Thank You to Our Supporters ........................................................115 Front cover photo by © Gary L. Woods of Fresno, California: Arctic Loon (Gavia arctica), San Simeon Creek mouth, San Luis Obispo County, California, 14 January 2012. Small numbers of this Old World counterpart of the Pacific Loon (G. pacifica) breed in and migrate through western Alaska. Elsewhere in western North America the Arctic Loon is a casual vagrant, recorded as far south as central Baja California and as far inland as Colorado. Back cover “Featured Photos” of a juvenile Red-necked Stint (Calidris ruficollis), Vic Fazio Wildlife Area, Yolo County, California, 30 August 2009, by © John Sterling of Woodland, California (top), and by © Todd Easterla of Rancho Cordova, California (bottom). Western Birds solicits papers that are both useful to and understandable by amateur field ornithologists and also contribute significantly to scientific literature. The journal welcomes contributions from both professionals and amateurs. Appropriate topics in- clude distribution, migration, status, identification, geographic variation, conservation, behavior, ecology, population dynamics, habitat requirements, the effects of pollution, and techniques for censusing, sound recording, and photographing birds in the field. Papers of general interest will be considered regardless of their geographic origin, but particularly desired are reports of studies done in or bearing on North America west of the 100th meridian, including Alaska and Hawaii, northwestern Mexico, and the northeastern Pacific Ocean. Send manuscripts to Kathy Molina, Section of Ornithology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90007. For matters of style consult the Suggestions to Contributors to Western Birds (at www.western fieldornithologists.org/docs/journal_guidelines.doc). WESTERN BIRDS Volume 43, Number 2, 2012 THE CALIFORNIA CONDOR IN NORTHWESTERN NORTH AMERICA BRIAN E. SHARP, Ecological Perspectives, P. O. Box 111, Fossil, Oregon 97830; [email protected] ABSTRACT: Native Americans, European and American explorers, fur trappers, and settlers observed the California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus) in the Columbia River basin, the Cascade Range, along the Snake River in Idaho, as far north as latitude 52° in British Columbia, and east of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta and Montana. Before European contact, indigenous people were familiar with and culturally connected to the California Condor in northwestern North America. The condor occurred year round and possibly persisted until the mid-20th century. Oral history of condor chicks kept in Indian villages attests to the condor’s nesting in the Pacific Northwest. Historical accounts of the condor’s food and foraging suggest that poisoning was the primary cause of the species’ extirpation from this region. Most of what is known about the critically endangered California Condor is from detailed studies in California (Harris 1941, Koford 1953, Wilbur 1978, Snyder and Snyder 2000). In the American Southwest, the condor is known from at least 18 fossils 9600–22,000 years old (Emslie 1987), but there are only six 19th century records (Snyder and Rea 1998). In Baja California (Norte) a small population persisted until the 1930s (Grinnell 1928, Hill and Wiggins 1948, Wilbur and Kiff 1980). In the Pacific Northwest, explorers, fur trappers, pioneers, ranchers, and naturalists encountered California Condors in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries; these reports have been summarized by Hall (1933, 1934), Harris (1941), Jewett et al. (1953), Gabrielson and Jewett (1940), and Wilbur (1973). Schaeffer (1951) presented oral accounts of condors from native American sources east of the Rocky Mountains. In the Pacific Northwest, condor bones have been found at three native American archaeological sites; those at Five Mile Rapids near The Dalles have been carbon-dated at 8000–9000 years before present (A. H. Miller 1942, L. H. Miller 1957, Hansel-Kuehn 2003). Wilbur (1973) stated that “Pacific Northwest condors were permanent resi- dents with a long history,” and “records from the Pacific Northwest indicate condors may have been as plentiful in winter as at any time of year,” but 54 Western Birds 43:54–89, 2012 THE CALIFORNIA CONDOR IN NORTHWESTERN NORTH AMERICA he did not present in detail, map, or graph the supporting data. Kiff et al. (1996:2) stated, inaccurately, that “by the time of the arrival of European man in western North America, California Condors occurred only in a nar- row Pacific coastal strip…until the mid-1800s in the northern portion of the Pacific Coast region,” though they were known then to be more widespread and to have occurred more recently. Condors were presumed extinct in the Northwest after 1904, but little effort was made to verify the presumption. An up-to-date, detailed consideration of the geographic and seasonal dis- tribution of the California Condor in northwestern North America is needed. In this paper I summarize and analyze published and new data, including data from native American sources. The condor’s foraging ecology has been studied in California (Collins et al. 2000, Snyder and Snyder 2000:152), but data on its food and foraging in the Pacific Northwest are lacking. Here I also summarize and evaluate historical observations of condors foraging in the Pacific Northwest. METHODS I searched for and compiled records of the California Condor in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and western Montana in the United States; British Columbia and southwestern Alberta in Canada) from journals, letters, and reports of explorers, fur traders, missionaries, pioneers, and early naturalists. For 4 years I also unearthed and compiled new data through interviews and conversations with native Americans, cultural anthropologists, biologists, condor researchers, and authors. Data obtained from interviews, conversations, and correspondence with informants are archived with the Wilson Ornithological Society at the University of Michigan. I used the following criteria to evaluate the validity of condor observa- tions: how well the birds were seen (“at close range, cannot be mistaken for any other species,” Snyder and Schmitt 2002:3); size (fur traders and native American observers referred to small and large vultures; A. Henry per Coues 1897, Ross 1956, Tolmie 1963); shape (extended unfeathered neck, ruff, wing angle); coloration (dark body, color of head and neck, white in wings); physical evidence (specimens, body parts, feathers, photograph); observer competence and familiarity with local fauna and species with which the condor could be confused, particularly the Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leuco- cephalus), Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), and Turkey Vulture (Cathar- tes aura) (see below); whether the observation was corroborated by other observer(s); whether the observed bird was named as “vulture” (in the 1800s this usually referred to the California Condor, Wilbur 1978:19), “California vulture” (pers. obs., Snyder and Snyder 2000), or equivalent name in a na- tive American language (see below); behavior; and other descriptive details. In the Pacific Northwest the California Condor and Turkey Vulture are dis- tinguishable on the basis of noncongruent geographical ranges and seasonal distributions (Kirk and Mossman 1998, Snyder and Schmitt 2002) and by differences in foraging behavior. There are records of “vultures” (condors) in the Northwest in winter, whereas the Turkey Vulture is migratory and absent in winter (Kirk and Mossman 1998, Gilligan et al. 1994, Marshall et al. 55 56 THE CALIFORNIA CONDOR IN NORTHWESTERN NORTH AMERICA NORTH THE CALIFORNIACONDORINNORTHWESTERN Figure 1. Locations of California Condors observed in northwestern North America. Using Google Earth (www.google.earth.com) and United States Geological Survey quadrangles, I mapped records with precise geographical locations to the nearest minute of latitude and longitude. I plotted records with imprecise locations to the nearest degree, identifying them by a different symbol on the map. Twentieth century condor records are identified with a unique symbol on the map, as are records with minimal details. THE CALIFORNIA CONDOR IN NORTHWESTERN NORTH AMERICA 2003, pers. obs. 1974–2008). There are reports of “vultures” from northerly latitudes in British Columbia beyond the range of the Turkey Vulture, which is found only in the southern part of the province (Munro and McTaggart-Cowan 1947, Campbell et al. 1990); the Turkey Vulture has expanded northward in the last
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