MOURC Proceedings Archive - Gulls, Terns 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.
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Proceedings
Species: Gulls, Terns
Black-legged Kittiwake
Ivory Gull
Sabine's Gull
Black-headed Gull
Little Gull
Ross's Gull
Laughing Gull
Short-billed Gull
California Gull
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Slaty-backed Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Least Tern
Gull-billed Tern
[White-winged Tern]
Common Tern
Arctic Tern
Forster's Tern
[Royal Tern]
Sandwich Tern
Elegant Tern
[Black Skimmer]

Gull-billed Tern (A) (Gelochelidon nilotica)Start Date 0000-00-00
RefFirstLastLocationCounty23CommentStatus
188:912016-06-022016-06-06Salt Lake and vicinityLac qui Parle(record #2016-018, vote 10–0). Adult, photographed. First state record (The Loon 88:136–137). Originally recorded 1 June 2016 on the western shore of Salt Lake which lies in South Dakota, it was not observed in Minnesota until the following morning. The bird was last reported on 6 June 2016 at Sweetwater State Wildlife Management Area (about six miles southeast of Salt Lake) though no documentation or other details were provided for this date. Accepted
avian
information
2016-06-022016-06-06Lac qui Parle6/2-6 Lac qui Parle (first state record) (first county record)
New state record 6/2–6 Lac qui Parle (Salt Lake, first found and photographed by Kathy Java 6/1 on the South Dakota shore). Documented in Minnesota ph. †AXH, ph. †MJB, †KRE, ph. †PHS, †JoS, †RSF (The Loon 88:136–137).
 
 One summer record (2016).

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