MOURC Proceedings Archive - Warblers Accepted
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Proceedings
Species: Warblers
Ovenbird
Worm-eating Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
Northern Waterthrush
Blue-winged Warbler
[Brewster's Warbler]
Prothonotary Warbler
Swainson's Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
MacGillivray's Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Kirtland's Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Pine Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Hermit Warbler
Canada Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Painted Redstart

Hermit Warbler (A) (Setophaga occidentalis)Start Date 0000-00-00
RefFirstLastLocationCounty23CommentStatus
1MOU1931-05-03CambridgeIsantiJanssen 1987:269Accepted
avian
information
1931-05-03Isanti5/3 Isanti (first state record) (first county record)
55:881983indexAfter 52 years, Minnesota's Second Hermit Warbler
55:1171983-05-14Yellow Bank Twp.Lac qui Parle(vote 7-0; Loon 55:88) Recirculated
280:1151983-05-14Yellow Bank RiverLac qui Parle(recirculated record #2008-010, vote 5-2 / 6-1). The above two previously Accepted records were discussed and recirculated after a subcommittee re-examined Minnesota records of Hermit and Townsend's warblers, and recommended that they be reviewed in light of published information on the frequency of hybridization between townsendi and occidentalis in the Pacific Northwest. Accepted
avian
information
1983-05-14Lac qui Parle5/14 Lac qui Parle (second state record) (first county record)
5/14 Lac qui parle B L. Second state record (The Loon 55:88).
395:32023-05-06 Park Point Recreation Area, DuluthSt. Louis (record #2023-033, vote 7-0). Single bird of indeterminate sex. First county record and third state record. Previous records were a male specimen taken near Cambridge, Isanti County 1931 (The Auk 48:435) and Yellow Bank River, Lac qui Parle County 1983 (The Loon 80:118). With reference to the 1931 specimen, T.S. Roberts (Roberts, T.S. (1932) The Birds of Minnesota: Vol. 2 pp. 226-227) states that “this is a most exceptional occurrence, for there appear to be no other records east of the Rocky Mountains.”

Accepted
avian
information
2023-05-06St. Louis5/6 St. Louis (fourth state record) (first county record)
Remarkably, two reports of this species, whose only prior Minnesota records are also both from May, in 1931 and 1983:5/6 St. Louis (Park Point R.A.) †PHS, 5/9 Ramsey (Roseville) †CEb.
495:32023-05-09 unspecified location, RosevilleRamsey (record #2023-041, vote 6-1). Single bird of indeterminate sex. First county record and fourth state record. All four state records were in May. It is interesting to note that it was 40 years after the second record in 1983 that two new records occurred nearly simultaneously (only three days apart) in the spring of 2023.

Accepted
avian
information
2023-05-09Ramsey5/9 Ramsey (third state record) (first county record)
Remarkably, two reports of this species, whose only prior Minnesota records are also both from May, in 1931 and 1983:5/6 St. Louis (Park Point R.A.) †PHS, 5/9 Ramsey (Roseville) †CEb.
 
 Four spring records. 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