Western Birds-43(3)-Webcomp.Pdf
Volume 43, Number 3, 2012 Fall Bird Migration on Santa Barbara Island, California Nick Lethaby, Wes Fritz, Paul W. Collins, and Peter Gaede.......118 A Population Census of the Cactus Wren in Coastal Los Angeles County Daniel S. Cooper, Robert A. Hamilton, and Shannon D. Lucas .............................................................151 The 36th Annual Report of the California Bird Records Committee: 2010 Records Oscar Johnson, Brian L. Sullivan, and Guy McCaskie ...................................................................164 NOTES Snowy Plover Buried Alive by Wind-Blown Sand J. Daniel Farrar, Adam A. Kotaich, David J. Lauten, Kathleen A. Castelein, and Eleanor P. Gaines ..............................................................189 In Memoriam: Clifford R. Lyons Jon Winter .................................192 Featured Photo: Multiple Color Abnormalities in a Wintering Mew Gull Jeff N. Davis and Len Blumin ................................193 Front cover photo by © Robert H. Doster of Chico, California: Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus), offshore of Ft. Bragg, Mendocino County, California, 20 May 2012. Since the species was brought to the brink of extinction in the 1930s, it has recovered to the point where small numbers are seen regularly in the northeastern Pacific and one pair colonized Midway Atoll, fledging young in 2011 and 2012. Back cover: “Featured Photo” by © Len Blumin of Mill Valley, California: Aberrant Mew Gull (Larus canus) at Las Gallinas wastewater ponds in Terra Linda, Marin County, California,
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