33RD REPORT OF THE CBRC: 2007 RECORDS 
seemingly never-ending contribution of first state records was a hatch-year Common 
Rosefinch banded on Southeast Farallon I., SF, 23 Sep 2007 (MB, TRLf; RF+, KNt, 
JTz; 2007-207; Figure 13; photo also in N. Am. Birds 62:191). This constitutes 
the first North American record south of western Alaska, where the species is casual 
in spring and fall (Gibson and Byrd 2007), though spring records predominate (P. 
Fehman pers. comm.). Records from Alaska pertain to the northeastern subspecies 
grebnitskii, which breeds from central to northeastern Siberia (Cramp and Perrins 
1994, Gibson and Byrd 2007). Fike the Purple (C. purpureus) and Cassin’s (C. 
cassinii ) finches, first-year male Common Rosefinches remain in female-like plumage 
for a year and thus cannot be sexed by their plumage. 
COMMON REDPOLL Carduelis flammea (78, 1). One coming to a feeder in Fort 
Bragg, MEN, 2-10 Mar 2007 was only the third recorded along California’s coast 
(GEC, KAH, RJK, MMat, DT; 2007-079; photo in N. Am. Birds 61:509). 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
This report would not have been possible without the support of 280 observers 
who provided documentation of their observations. The CBRC thanks the following 
individuals for contributions on records contained in this report: Dan Gibson for his 
comments on the American Black Duck, Richard Chandler and Killian Mullarney 
for their comments on the Little Stint, and J. Van Remsen for his helpful analysis of 
the Green Violetear. Jon L. Dunn, Kimball L. Garrett, Matt T. Heindel, Marshall J. 
Iliff, Paul E. Lehman, Guy McCaskie, and Jim Tietz made many helpful comments 
on earlier drafts of the manuscript. Several museums and their staff also deserve our 
thanks, for housing important specimens and data, and helping us on several of these 
records: thanks to the LACM, MVZ, SDNHM, SBNHM, and WFVZ. We particularly 
thank WFVZ staff members Linnea Hall, Rene Corado, Peg Stevens, and Chrystal 
Klabunde for their support and housing of the CBRC archives. Finally, we thank David 
Krueper and Ted Floyd for their reviews of this report. 
CORRIGENDA 
The following corrections are for the CBRC’s previous report (Heindel and Garrett 
2008): Rare Birds of California (CBRC 2007) summarizes all of the committee’s 
decisions from its inception through 2003, not 2004 (p. 121). The date span for the 
Trumpeter Swan in Long Valley and at Crowley L., MNO (p. 148) is 17 Jun-22 Oct 
2006. The record number for the three juvenile Yellow-crowned Night-Herons (p. 128) 
in Imperial Beach, SD, is 2006-075. Within the list of Roseate Spoonbill records (p. 
129) Colin Wilkinson should be credited with submitting written documentation for 
record 2006-123. The adult Crested Caracara in Mendocino Co. (p. 130) was near 
Caspar, not Casper. The date span for Iceland Gull record 2006-019 is 11-12 Feb 
2006 (p. 146). Slaty-backed Gull record 2006-044 (p. 134) was published previously 
in the 31 st report (pp. 177-178), so the 11 new records should be reduced to 10. 
Within the Slaty-backed Gull records (p. 134), David Vander Pluym should be credited 
with submitting documentation and photographs for records 2006-008 and 2006- 
026. The Long-billed Murrelet (p. 135) was in Humboldt Co., not Mendocino. The 
Snowy Owl at Grizzly Bay, SOL (p. 135), was a second-winter bird as is evident from 
p7 and p8 being of a generation newer than the other primaries — see Larry Sansone’s 
photograph on the inside cover of Western Birds 38(1), 2007. The Common Black- 
Hawk (p. 145) was reported in Riverside Co., not San Bernardino. The date span 
for the Ruby-throated Hummingbird (pp. 136-137) is 16-25 Oct 2006. The record 
number for the Blue-headed Vireo at Mad R. County Park, HUM, is 2007-021 (p.38). 
The date for the Curve-billed Thrasher at Big R., SBE, is 1 Nov 2006 (p. 139). The 
date span for the Yellow-throated Warbler at Terwinkle Park, Costa Mesa, ORA, is 
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