Duplicates
The Loon, journal of the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
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MOURC Proceedings Archive - Kites, Accipiters, Hawks, Eagles |
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. |
| Families |
| Species: Kites, Accipiters, Hawks, Eagles |
| [Common Black Hawk] (P) (Buteogallus anthracinus) | Start Date 1936-01-01 | ||||||||
| Ref | First | Last | Location | County | 2 | 3 | Comment | Status | |
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| 1 | 93:115 | 1976-09-18 | along Power Dam Road Northeast seven miles east of Bemidji | Beltrami | (record #1976-001, vote 10–0 to accept the identification). Female specimen, photographed. It had been hit by a vehicle along the roadside (see the article by Hertzel in an upcoming issue of The Loon). The injured bird was then ultimately transported to a rehabilitation center, where it died on 20 September 1976. The specimen was then added to the checklist of Minnesota birds by MOURC (then MORC) in 1978 as a hypothetical record (The Loon 50:31–34). In 1980, MOURC eliminated the status of hypothetical records and the specimen was reclassified to the modern equivalent of an Accidental subscript “o” species (The Loon 52:150–152). The “o” subscript indicates that there is uncertainty as to the bird's wildness or origin or its natural occurrence and arrival in the state. In February of 1988, the Director of the James Ford Bell Museum re-examined the specimen and concluded that the bird was likely an escaped bird. Consequently, at the direction of the Chairperson of MOURC (and without a vote) the bird was removed from the state checklist in 1988 (The Loon 60:13–16). In 2024, MOURC reconsidered the origin of the record and, by a vote of 6–4, restored the specimen record to its former status as an Accidental subscript “o” species. | Accepted | |||
| 2 | 95:115 | 1976-09-18 | along Power Dam Road Northeast seven miles east of Bemidji | Beltrami | (record #1976-001, vote 10–0 to accept the identification). Female specimen, photographed. It had been hit by a vehicle along the roadside (see the article by Hertzel in an upcoming issue of The Loon). The injured bird was then ultimately transported to a rehabilitation center, where it died on 20 September 1976. The specimen was then added to the checklist of Minnesota birds by MOURC (then MORC) in 1978 as a hypothetical record (The Loon 50:31–34). In 1980, MOURC eliminated the status of hypothetical records and the specimen was reclassified to the modern equivalent of an Accidental subscript “o” species (The Loon 52:150–152). The “o” subscript indicates that there is uncertainty as to the bird's wildness or origin or its natural occurrence and arrival in the state. In February of 1988, the Director of the James Ford Bell Museum re-examined the specimen and concluded that the bird was likely an escaped bird. Consequently, at the direction of the Chairperson of MOURC (and without a vote) the bird was removed from the state checklist in 1988 (The Loon 60:13–16). In 2024, MOURC reconsidered the origin of the record and, by a vote of 6–4, restored the specimen record to its former status as an Accidental subscript “o” species. | Accepted | |||
| One sighting. This sighting has yet to be been considered by MOURC. | |||||||||
| 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 | ||