OREGON BIRDS Volume 12 Number 3, Fall 1986 Oregon rs introduced birds Oregon Birds OREGON BIRDS Volume 12, Number 3, Fall 1986 Volume 12 Number 3, Fall 1986 OREGON BIRDS isa quarterly publication of Oregon Held Ornithologists. OREGON BIRDS is printed at the University of Oregon Press. Articles apppearing in OREGON BIRDS may be reprinted with permission of the author or the Editor, and must credit the NEWS BRIEFS 141 source asOREGON BIRDS. Membership in Oregon Field Ornithologists is on an annual basis and includes a subscription toOREGON BIRDS. For advertising policy and rates, please write to the Editor. SHORT NOTES Editor Owen Schmidt OFO President's Message 148 Alan Contreras Issue Editor Joe Evanich Request for OBRC Nominations 149 Assistant Editor Sharon K. Blair Clarice Watson, OBRC Secretary Copy Editor Jim Johnson Information Wanted 150 David A. Anderson OREGON FIELD ORNITHOLOGISTS President Alan Ccntreras, Eugene (1987) The 87th Christmas Bird Count 150 Secretary Pam Neumann, Portland (1987) OB Editor Treasurer Tom Mickel, Eugene (1987) Directors Barb Bellin, Salem (1985-87) Send CBC Dates to Oregon Birds 151 David Fix, Idleyld Park (1986-88) OB Editor Roger Robb, Eugene (1985-87) Larry Thornburgh, North Bend (1986-88) IN MEMORIAM Mark C. Koninendyke 152 OREGON BIRD RECORDS COMMITTEE Jeff Gilligan Secretary Clarice Watson, Eugene (1986) Alan Contreras Members Jim Carlson, Eugene (1985-86) Tom Crabtree, Bend (1986-88) Alfred Cooper Shelton 154 Jeff Gilligan, Portland (1984-86) George A. Jobanek Steve Heinl, Eugene (1986-88) David Irons, Roseburg (1984-86) INTRODUCED BIRDS OF OREGON 156 Larry McQueen, Eugene (1985-87) Joe Evanich Harry Nehls, Portland (1985-87) Owen Schmidt, Portland (1985-87) Steve Summers, Klamath Falls (1986-88) Alternates Joe Evanich, Portland David Fix, Idleyld Park Matt Hunter, Roseburg Ken Knittle, Glide Richard Smith, Portland OREGON FIELD ORNITHOLOGISTS OREGON BIRD RECORDS COMMITTEE P.O. Box 10373 OREGON BIRDS 12(3): 139,1986 Eugene, OR 97440 BIRD FINDING GUIDES Northern Bobwhite Joe Evanich NEWS BRIEFS Monk Parakeet • Nominations to the Oregon Bird Records Committee are due by 30 David A. Anderson November 1986. Each year 3 of the 9 terms on the OBRC expire. A short article by the OBRC Secretary elsewhere in this issue gives CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNTS details. The Art of the Christmas Bird Count Alan Contreras • Look for a new publication on birding—Birder's World. It is to be a quality magazine for birders, they say, and will feature "a good amount The 1985 Upper Nestucca CBC of color." They are looking for articles that may cover a variety of Larry R. ScofieU topics including bird biology, birding sites, and popular articles about birds and birding. They will print photo essays and will pay for FIELDNOTES articles accepted for publication. Write to Birder's World, 52 West Western Oregon, Fall 1985 19th Street, Holland, MI 49423. Steve Heinl • Worldwide, there are only 154 abstractors for a publication titled "Recent Ornithological Literature," published simultaneously by the CENTER American Ornithologists' Union and the British Ornithologists' Union. OFO Bookcase ROL supplements The Auk and Ibis, respectively, for each organi• Membership Application zation. Around 400 journals are abstracted in ROL, including Oregon Birds—abstracted by your very own editor Owen Schmidt. COVER Gray Partridge by Joe Evanich • According to the July issue of the NARBA Monthly Newsletter, the World's leading birder is Norm Chesterfield of Wheatley, Ontario. Norm has listed 6161 species of the World's 8733 known species Of birds. The same newsletter carried the item that a female Eurasian Siskin was seen in June 1986 in Vancouver, British Columbia. The 1985 NARBA "rare bird of the year" was the Flame-colored Tanager in Arizona. For more information on the North American Rare Bird Alert, write to Pam and Bob Odear at Bob-O-Link, Inc., P.O. Box 1161, Jamestown, NC 27282. • A Western Sandpiper banded in Peru by The Sanderling Project was seen near Nehalem Bay by Jeff Gilligan and Owen Schmidt on 13 July 1986. After being banded in Peru, the bird migrated to the tundra for nesting and then appeared in a fair-sized flock of adult Westerns on return migration. This was the first resighting of a marked Western Sandpiper from Peru in North America, according to personnel at the Bodega Bay Laboratory. The bird had a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service aluminum band and a yellow band with a trailing flag on its left leg, and on its right leg a green band over a red band. Report all color-marked shorebirds to the Bird Banding Laboratory, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD 20708, and to The Sanderling Project, P.O. Box 247, Bodega Bay, CA 94923. OREGON BIRDS 12(3): 140,1986 ' ' b j OREGON BIRDS 12(3): 141,1986 • Birding by Geiger counter. Migratory birds would be an efficient the Ornithological Societies of North America, P.O. Box 21618, vector for radioactive isotopes from the Chernobyl nuclear accident, Columbus, OH 43221. according to a news item in a recent issue of Science News. Italy—where up to 20 million wild birds are hunted and eaten each • All persons interested in the conservation, management, and biology year—is considering a ban on bird hunting this year. Birds "down• of herons are urged to become part of the Heron Specialists Group. stream" from the Ukraine could be carrying radiation to Europe, the Write to James A. Kushlan, Department of Biological Sciences, East Middle East, and Africa. Texas State University, Commerce, TX 75428. • Oregon birders recognized for their 1984-85 contributions to the Nest • The Wilson Ornithological Society is looking for a new Editor for Record Program of Cornell University's Laboratory of Ornithology were their Wikon Bulletin. The new Editor will start receiving manuscripts David A. Anderson, Elsie Eltzroth, Patricia A. Larson, Mike Paczolt in mid-1987 for issues starting in 1988. Editor Keith Bildstein is (more than 100 nest record cards submitted), Fred Speer, and Ken Voget. retiring. Write to Richard C. Banks, Chair of the Publications Com• Oregon birders contributing to the Colonial Bird Register were John mittee, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Museum of Natural Annear and B. Grove, and Gary Ivey, CD. Littlefield, David Paullin, History, Washington, D.C. 20560. and Brian Sharp all sent in more than 10 forms. The Nest Record Program and the Colonial Bird Register are parts of Cornell's Cooper• • Western Birds, the quarterly journal of Western Field Ornitholo• ative Research Program. For more information on how you can turn your gists, is also looking for an Editor. It is a volunteer position and takes birdwatching into scientific data gathering, write to the Program in 15-20 hrs. per week, they say. Applicants should have a general care of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods working knowledge of the distribution of birds and the current state of Road, Ithaca, NY 14850. field ornithology in western North America. Those who apply should be prompt and organized, effective at delegating authority to associate • The Oregon Chapter of The Wildlife Society gave the Wildlife editors and reviewers, and willing to devote time to developing Achievement Award for 1986 to Dick Rogers, Manager of Finley Wild• manuscripts from amateur field ornithologists. Write to Tim Manolis, life Refuge and recently coordinator of refuges for Region I of the U.S. Acting WFO President, 3532 Winston Way, Carmichael, CA 95608. Fish and Wildlife Service. Dick was cited for numerous contributions to the wildlife resource. For information on the Oregon Chapter, write to • Birders using personal computers should know about the Newbury- their Secretary/Treasurer, Charlie Bruce, Oregon Department of Fish port Birders' Exchange. Their latest newsletter describes an ornitho• and Wildlife, Route 5 Box 325, Corvallis, OR 97330-9446. logical keyword database and a raptor research bibliographical database, both available for the IBM PC and compatibles. "The • Clements' "Birds of the World: A Checklist" is now being revised program is well-documented and not copy protected so that an experi• into a new edition. Anyone with corrections, comments, or criticisms of enced dBASE user can easily customize the program if desired," they previous editions is invited to contact the author. Commenters are say. For more information, write to them at 31 Plummer Avenue, New- asked to give complete references for any taxonomic changes. Write to buryport, MA 01950. James F. Clements, 1835 Michael Lane, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272. • Birders using CB radios should also know about the Newburyport • Peters' Check-list of the Birds of the World, a 15-volume project Birders' Exchange. Their latest newsletter suggests that birders around started 55 years ago by James Lee Peters, is now complete. The last the country adopt channel 21 as the bird watchers' channel. They'd volume, 650 pages covering the Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Monarch- like to register the "handles" of birders everywhere and will publish a idae, etc., is available for $75 from the Museum of Comparative list. Individual membership in the Exchange is $12 per year. Their Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138. address again is 31 Plummer Avenue, Newburyport, MA 01950. • The XIX International Ornithological Congress held at Ottawa 22-29 • Surplus binoculars and field guides are wanted by Peace Corps June 1986 was the largest ornithological meeting ever held, with 1361 volunteers Stephen Brown and his wife. The Browns, on assignment as registered members from 61 countries, according to a news item in the environmental educators in Honduras, hold bird observation workshops August 1986 issue of Ornithological Newsletter. ON is published by for teachers, students, and professionals, and are trying to instill a sense OREGON BIRDS 12(3): 142,1986 OREGON BIRDS 12(3): 143,1986 of environmental ethics in local residents, according to the June issue of present regulations either are too onerous upon those persons who desire Portland Audubon Society's Audubon Warbler.