MOURC Proceedings Archive - Nightjars Accepted
Duplicates
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The Loon, journal of the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
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Proceedings
Species: Nightjars
Common Nighthawk
Common Poorwill
Chuck-will's-widow

Chuck-will's-widow (A) (Antrostomus carolinensis)Start Date 0000-00-00
RefFirstLastLocationCounty23CommentStatus
1MOU1981-06-011981-07-18County Road 11SherburneThe Loon 54:139Accepted
avian
information
1981-06-01Sherburne6/1 Sherburne (first state record) (first county record)
54:139-1411982indexChuck-will's-widow: First Known Occurrence in Minnesota
2MOU1982-06-011982-07-03County Road 11SherburneThe Loon 54:139Accepted
avian
information
1982-06-011982-07-03Sherburne6/1-7/18, 6/11-7/3 Sherburne (second state record) (second county record)
First state record in Sherburne m June and July (The Loon 54:139-141).
3MOU1983-06-08County Road 11SherburneThe Loon 56:56Accepted
avian
information
1983-06-08Sherburne6/8 Sherburne (third state record) (third county record)
One, 6/8, Sherburne, KL (same location as last year).
56:2001984indexChuck-will's-widow in Nicollet County
4MOU1984-06-011984-07-31County Road 11SherburneThe Loon 57:44Accepted
avian
information
1984-06-011984-07-31Sherburnesummer Sherburne (fifth state record) (fourth county record)
returned for the fourth year in a row to Sherburne; also seen 6/9 in Nicollet (P. Sullivan) (The Loon 56:200).
556:1601984-06-09County Road 71Nicollet(vote 7-0; The Loon 56:200). Accepted
avian
information
1984-06-09Nicollet6/9 Nicollet (fourth state record) (first county record)
returned for the fourth year in a row to Sherburne; also seen 6/9 in Nicollet (P. Sullivan) (The Loon 56:200).
695:32023-05-30 private residence, Baihly Estates Lane Southwest, RochesterOlmsted (record #2023-065, vote 7-0). Audio recorded. First county and sixth state record. First spring record; all others were summer records. The last previous record was in 1984 (The Loon 56:200).

Accepted
avian
information
2023-05-30Olmsted5/30 Olmsted (sixth state record) (first county record)
The sixth state record and the first since 1984:5/30 Olmsted (Rochester) a.t. SFG.
 
 Six records: One spring and five summer. Recorded in one (2023) of the last ten years.

Notes:

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