33RD REPORT OF THE CBRC: 2007 RECORDS 
Figure 9. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher ( Empidonax flaviventris) at Point Loma, San 
Diego County, on 6 Oct 2007. 
Photo by John Puschock 
three accepted records for the west coast of the lower 48 states: one for California, 
of a juvenile substantiated by photographs (Patten and Daniels 1991) and two for 
Oregon, one of them of a juvenile substantiated by photographs (south jetty of the 
Columbia R., 2-6 Sept 1981). The third was a sight record of an adult at the same 
location 17 Jul 1983 (Marshall et al. 2003). The Least Sandpiper can be quite vari- 
able, and bright juvenile Least Sandpipers have been misidentified as Long-toed Stints. 
This difficulty combined with the Long-toed Stint’s extreme rarity prompted a number 
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