The Loon, journal of the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
The last 2 years are available to MOU members.
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Seasonal Report Archive for The Loon - Whistling-Ducks, Geese, Swans, Ducks | Occurrence | |
| This is the 1930 to present seasonal report archive for The Loon, journal of the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union. The last 2 years are available to MOU members. |
Seasons |
| Species: Whistling-Ducks, Geese, Swans, Ducks |
| King Eider(Somateria spectabilis) | ||||
| Year | Season | N | S | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | Winter | One seen at Knife River on Jan. 5, by Janet Green. Present until Jan. 13, when it was collected for Minnesota Museum of Natural History. This is either first or second Minn. record, dependent upon stillpending circumstances. A more comprehensive account of this will be published in a future issue. | ||
| 1964 | Fall | See Notes of Interest. | ||
| 1971 | Spring | 5-9 Lower Red Lake, Beltrami Co., 4 adults, KE, RR; third state record, see Notes of Interest. | ||
| 1974 | Winter | One found at Grand Marais, Cook Co. with the Harlequin and Barrow's Goldeneye on 12-12 and 12-14 (JG, BJ, DB); fifth state record. | ||
| 1976 | Fall | One shot on Lake Osakis, Todd Co. on 11-3. | ||
| 1988 | Fall | 10/30-11/2 Grand Marais, Cook Co. SC et al. (The Loon 61:38). | ||
| 1990 | Fall | Reported I0/20-11/24 Cook (Grand Marais) PB, KR, mob (The Loon63:66-67). | ||
| 1994 | Fall | Reported 11/28–30 Grand Marais, Cook Co. (2) MB, KE et al (The Loon 67:62–63). | ||
| 1996 | Fall | Reported 11/2 Ray Berglund Wayside, Cook Co. (immature/female) mob. | ||
| 1997 | Fall | Only report: 11/8 Cook (female/immature) TBr, SR. | ||
| 1999 | Fall | An eider shot by a hunter 10/22 Chippewa fide DNR was tentatively identified as a Common, but a photograph published in the 28 October 1999 issue of Montevideo American-News clearly shows an immature or female King. Another immature or female 11/22 Cook (Grand Marais) †KMH was then not relocated until 11/27 near Five Mile Rock, where it remained into early December. | ||
| 1999 | Winter | Female/immature from fall season reported through 12/9 Cook mob. | ||
| 2000 | Fall | Fourteenth state record 10/14–16 Cook (probable first-year male, Good Harbor Bay) †JWL et al., †PHS (The Loon 73:130–131). This was the tenth report for the North Shore of Lake Superior, and except for the 9 May 1971 occurrence of two pair on Lower Red Lake in Beltrami County (The Loon 43:90–91), all records in the state have been immature/females between mid-October and mid-January. | ||
| 2000 | Winter | Female/immature seen 12/29 – 1/15 Lake (Agate Bay in Two Harbors) †JWL, †PHS, mob. | ||
| 2002 | Spring | Sixteenth Minnesota record 5/7–20 St. Louis (female at Park Point, Duluth) †KJB, †PHS, m.ob. (The Loon 74:180–181). Second St. Louis record (first was at Lost L., 29 October 1964). | ||
| 2007 | Fall | 1 | Sixteenth state record and first for Cass, found on Leech L. on 11/28 (ph. †BAW, DAY). | |
| 2011 | Spring | 1 | Third spring record for the state: 5/5 St. Louis (immature male, Park Point, Duluth) ph. †JLK, ph. †KRE, m.ob. | |
| 2012 | Winter | 1 | Immature male 2/9 St. Louis (Duluth, Lake Superior near Lakewood Pumping Station) †BAF, ph. SHF. Rediscovered in the same general area 2/23–24 MLH, †PHS, †BWF, †PEB, †ELC, ph. †DWK, †HCT, m.ob. | |
| 2013 | Winter | 1 | Two records: 12/12–14 St. Louis (female, Duluth, Lake Superior near 23rd Ave. East) GrG, ph. †KRE, ph. †TRK, ph. MSS, ph. AM, ph. JLK, m.ob., 12/26 St. Louis (first-year male, Duluth, Lake Superior near French River) ph. †JLK, ph. †PHS. These are the second and third records in 2013, all of different individuals and all from Duluth. | |
| 2014 | Fall | 1 | The twenty-second state record was a female or immature bird discovered at Good Harbor Bay in Cook 11/1 †KRE, †RMD, ph. JnH, ph. ANy, m.ob. | |
| 2018 | Winter | 1 | First-year male, 1/2–21 St. Louis (Duluth, Lester River mouth and Brighton Beach) ph. † JLK, m.ob. This is the 23rd state record and was reported by over 160 different observers. | |
| 2020 | Fall | 1 | Twenty-fourth state and second county record of this Casual species: 11/6–7 Beltrami (immature male, Lake Bemidji) ph. †DPJ, ph. AxB, †ASu, m.ob. | |
| 2020 | Winter | 1 | Female, 12/19 – 1/23 Cook (Grand Marais) HSo, JRi, ph. †JGW, ph. LWd, m.ob. Discovered in Good Harbor Bay west of Grand Marais and seen there until 12/24, then relocated in Grand Marais harbor and vicinity 1/1–23. Reported to MOU or eBird by over 50 different observers, and photographed by many. | |
| 2021 | Winter | 2 | One record: 12/8–17 Goodhue and Wabasha (female, Lake Pepin near Lake City) ph. †PEJ, and 12/28 – 1/3 Wabasha (east of Camp Lacupolis) PEJ, REn, RLF, ph. ToM, m.ob. This is only the second south record; the first was 10/20/1999 Chippewa (shot by a hunter). | |
| 2022 | Fall | 1 | Third county record of this Casual species: 11/16–18 Lake (immature male, Two Harbors) ph. AwG, ph. †HTo, ph. †TPu, m.ob. | |
| Twenty-eight records: 3 spring, 15 fall, and 10 winter. Recorded in five of the last ten years, most recently 2022. One additional fall and two additional winter records of S. spectabilis/mollissima, most recently in 1979. | ||||
| Click on the bird name to see a photographic image of the bird. | |
| Column N | Number of counties where the bird was seen in the North. |
| Column S | Number of counties where the bird was seen in the South. |