Duplicates
The Loon, journal of the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
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MOURC Proceedings Archive - Towhees, Sparrows |
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: Towhees, Sparrows |
| Brewer's Sparrow (A) (Spizella breweri) | Start Date 0000-00-00 | ||||||||
| Ref | First | Last | Location | County | 2 | 3 | Comment | Status | |
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| 1 | MOU | 1974-09-28 | Blue Mounds State Park | Rock | The Loon 47:40 | Accepted | |||
| avian information | 1974-09-28 | Rock | 9/28 Rock (first state record) (first county record) Possible sighting 9-28 Rock KE. | ||||||
| 47:40-41 | 1975 | index | Hypothetical Brewer's Sparrow Sighting | ||||||
| 2 | MOU | 1975-10-10 | Pipestone N.M. | Pipestone | Janssen 1987:299 | Accepted | |||
| avian information | 1975-10-10 | Pipestone | 10/10 Pipestone (second state record) (first county record) | ||||||
| 3 | 78:126 | 2005-06-22 | near Herman | Grant | (record #2006-031, vote 7-0. This singing male was discovered at an undisclosed location near Herman by a researcher familiar with the species. Third state record and first summer occurrence. | Accepted | |||
| avian information | 2005-06-22 | Grant | 6/22 Grant (third state record) (first county record) Third state record 6/22 Grant †LDI. [Corrected] | ||||||
| 79:59 | 2007 | index | Brewer's Sparrow | ||||||
| 87:4 | 2013-05-05 | private residence, Fairmont | Martin | (record #2013-015, first vote 6-4, recirculated vote 8-2). After discussion by the Committee at its 7 December 2014 meeting, all ten members voted on this record because it has an A subscript “s” checklist status. A minority of the committee thought the written description of the bird was incomplete, lacking some details. | Not Accepted | ||||
| 4 | 88:3 | 2015-05-04 | southeast of the downtown train depot, Two Harbors | Lake | (record, #2015-010, vote 10-0, vote to determine whether the physical evidence standing alone is sufficient to identify the bird as to species 10-0). Because this species was an AS species, all ten members were required to vote. The identification as well as the removal of the “s” subscript were both unanimous. | Accepted | |||
| avian information | 2015-05-04 | Lake | 5/4 Lake (fourth state record) (first county record) Fourth state record 5/4 Lake (Two Harbors) ph. †JWL (see photo in the Introduction, The Loon 87:157). | ||||||
| 94:3 | 2022-04-21 | Odessa Overlook | Big Stone | (record #2022-018, vote 0-7). Many details that would help support the identification were lacking. Certain details that were provided are inconsistent with Brewer's Sparrow such as the unstreaked back. | Not Accepted | ||||
| 5 | 95:115 | 2023-10-05 | private residence, Duluth | St. Louis | (record #2023-136, vote 7-0). Adult, photographed. First county and fifth state record. | Accepted | |||
| Four records: one spring, one summer, and two fall. Recorded in one (2015) of the last ten years. | |||||||||
| 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 | ||