Duplicates
The Loon, journal of the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
The last 2 years are available to MOU members.
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MOURC Proceedings Archive - Shearwaters and Petrels |
Accepted Duplicates | |
| This is the 1981 to present Records Committee Proceedings archive for The Loon, journal of the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union. The last 2 years are available to MOU members. |
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| Species: Shearwaters and Petrels |
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Northern Fulmar |
| Northern Fulmar (A) (Fulmarus glacialis) | Start Date 0000-00-00 | ||||||||
| Ref | First | Last | Location | County | 2 | 3 | Comment | Status | |
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| 1 | 89:87 | 2017-04-27 | Park Point, Duluth | St. Louis | (record #2017-033, vote 10-0). Salvaged specimen. Photographed. First state and county record. The bird was found dead on the beach at Park Point, having apparently been killed and partially eaten by a Peregrine Falcon (two Peregrines were seen in the immediate vicinity). The bird was dry, indicating it had not washed up on to the beach, and rigor mortis had not set in at the time of the discovery. The specimen was prepared four days later and is now part of the collection at the Bell Museum of Natural History. The Northern Fulmar is a very abundant sea bird found primarily in subarctic regions of the north Atlantic and north Pacific oceans. There are three generally recognized subspecies: the nominate form, F. g. glacialis, breeds in the high Arctic regions of the north Atlantic; F. g. auduboni breeds in the low Arctic and the boreal regions of the north Atlantic; and F. g. rodgersii, (the “Pacific” form) breeds on the Pacific coasts of eastern Siberia and the Alaskan Peninsula. The Committee ascertained that the bird was the “Atlantic” form — either the nominate glacialis or auduboni — primarily based on the paleness of the upper tail and rump. A few members were leaning toward the subspecies auduboni which is distinguished by its bill, described as “long and rather wide.” The auduboni subspecies has darker nostril tubes (this bird has nearly black tubes) and the tail averages paler and less contrasting with the upper tail coverts (again, consistent with the Minnesota specimen). However, the majority of the Committee thought it best to simply refer to it as the “Atlantic” form. (The Loon 89:43-46). | Accepted | |||
| avian information | 2017-04-27 | St. Louis | 4/27 St. Louis (first state record) (first county record) The first Minnesota record of a representative of the order Procellariiformes (the “tubenoses”) was a predated individual discovered on a beach at Park Point in St. Louis 4/27 ph. †JPR, ph. †AXH (The Loon 89:43–46). | ||||||
| One spring record (2017). | |||||||||
| The information in the above table comes from several different sources. The count in column 1 indicates which of the sources is considered the primary source. | ||
| 'Accepted' MOURC entries from The MOURC Proceedings | ||
| 'Not Accepted' or 'Rejected' MOURC entry from The MOURC Proceedings | ||
| Accepted MOU records assembled by David Cahlander | ||
| Sighting records for () | ||
| Avian information from the occurrence maps, in dark red, assembled by Robert Janssen. Seasonal report for the species/season published in The Loon or The Flicker has been added. | ||
| Information from The Loon index assembled by Anthony Hertzel and David Cahlander | ||