Quebec birders established 2 First Provincial Records last week, including a First Provincial Record Pacific Golden Plover at Sainte Plavie.

A Fourth North American Record and a Third State Record for California were established recently when birders found a Swallow-tailed Gull among other gulls on a Santa Barbara beach. Quebec birders established 2 First Provincial Records when they found a Lesser Sand Plover on Anticosti Island and a Pacific Golden Plover at Sainte Plavie. A First State Record Prairie Warbler was photographed adjacent to Market Lake, Idaho; and a Second State Record Roseate Spoonbill was appreciated by many birders in the Green Bay, Wisconsin area – plus there are more new records!

NORTH AMERICAN RECORDS

Fourth North American Record Swallow-tailed Gull – Santa Barbara, California

STATE & PROVINCIAL RECORDS

First Provincial Record Lesser Sand Plover – Anticosti Island, Quebec

First Provincial Record Pacific Golden Plover – Sainte Plavie, Quebec

First State Record Prairie Warbler – Market Lake, Idaho

Second State Record Roseate Spoonbill – Green Bay, Wisconsin

Third State Record Swallow-tailed Gull – Santa Barbara, California

Sixth State Record Wilson’s Storm Petrel – offshore Westport, Washington

Seventh State Record Limpkin – Lake MacBride, Iowa

Ninth State Record Neotropic Cormorant – Rogersville, Alabama

Tenth State Record Bar-tailed Godwit – Louis Head, Nova Scotia

CONTINUING REALLY RARE BIRDS

Steller’s Sea Eagle – Newfoundland

Large-billed Terns – Florida

LaSagra’s Flycatcher – Florida

Berylline Hummingbird – Arizona

Brown Jays – Texas

For more information, you can refer to the American Birding Association’s Rare Bird Alert at Rare Bird Alert: August 4, 2023 - American Birding Association (aba.org) Special Thanks to the ABA, and Nate Swick, who does such a great job of compiling the ABA’s Rare Bird Alert, which we use to prepare this weekly replay.

You can often find more info about individual rare bird sightings from the ABA state rare bird alert listserves that you can access at http://birding.aba.org/ or at https://www.facebook.com/groups/ABArare/