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 - Sandpipers | 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: Sandpipers |
| Long-billed Curlew(Numenius americanus) | ||||
| Year | Season | N | S | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | Spring | May 18, Willmar, Kandiyohi County. City dump area. Observed independently by two observers, F. V. Ogren and Karl Thurn. | ||
| 1968 | Spring | 4-11, 4-12 Wayzata, Hennepin Co., 1 individual seen and photographed by many observers. | ||
| 1970 | Spring | 4-25 Mcleod WL: "bird flying north, passed over car about 100 ft., car not moving, had good view of long curved bill and head". | ||
| 1970 | Fall | Photo by Robert E. Turner County By Robert P. Russell jr. Stearns County is a famous county in Minnesota ornithological history. The last nest of the Swallow-tailed Kite in the Midwest was found at Collegeville in the early 1900's. The now-extinct Passenger Pigeon bred there in 1881. Reverend Severin Gertkin, a local naturalist, reported four Long-billed Curlews flying over Collegeville in 1894, the last year that the Bald Eagle nested there. These gems are gone now, save for a stray eagle once or twice a year, but they still enlighten the journal pages of early explorers and naturalists who spent many happy days reveling over the abundant flora and fauna of the region as they tramped through the virgin maple-basswood forest known locally as the Big Woods and canoed the wild Mississippi. They passed the falls of Sauk Rapids and continued down past the heavily wooded islands south of present-day St. Cloud, named the Beaver Islands by Zebulon Pike for the abundance of these remarkable rodepts that often blocked the explorers' passage | ||
| 1979 | Spring | 4-14 Wilkin DGW. | ||
| 1980 | Spring | 5-20 Lyon Paul Egeland. | ||
| 1987 | Spring | 5/19-22 Ely, St. Louis Co., m.ob. | ||
| 1988 | Fall | 10/9 Pope DK (The Loon 60:186). | ||
| 1989 | Summer | A single bird reported 6/26 Blue Mounds State Park, Rock Co. AH (See Notes of Interest in this issue). | ||
| 1990 | Spring | 4/23-26 Rice LR eta!. (The Loon 62:167- 168). | ||
| 1991 | Fall | 10/3, Glencoe, McLeod Co. SK (The Loon 64:61-63). | ||
| 2000 | Spring | One found by USFWS employee BTu seen 4/18–23 Wilkin (near Manston WMA) †SDM, †mob (The Loon 72:184–185). This was the first occurrence in the state since 1987–1991. | ||
| 2002 | Summer | Second summer record in modern times; 7/19–28 Anoka (Robinson Sod Farm) PA, †CBr, †PCC, †PHS, m.obs. | ||
| 2005 | Spring | Second county record 4/16–18 Aitkin (Fleming Twp.) WEN, †CLR, ph. KWR; also documented †CMB, ph. †MLH, ph. JWL, †PHS. | ||
| 2008 | Spring | 1 | First county record 5/17 Big Stone ph. DPG. | |
| Former summer resident. Twenty-five records since 1900: 18 spring, 3 summer, and 4 fall. Last recorded 2008. | ||||
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| 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. |