33RD REPORT OF THE CBRC: 2007 RECORDS 
Figure 6. The first Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola) for California was superbly 
photographed at the Naval Air Weapons Station, China Lake, Kern County, 22-23 
May 2007. This photo shows the uniformly barred tail and white rump that distinguish 
this species from the similar Solitary Sandpiper (T solitaria), which has solidly dark 
central tail feathers and a dark rump, and by the underwing coverts, which are 
notably paler than those of the Solitary Sandpiper and (especially) Green Sandpiper 
(T ochropus). 
Photo by Bob Steele 
it has been recorded previously from British Columbia, at Alkali L., 41 km south of 
Williams L. in the Chilcotin-Cariboo region, where one was collected on 10 Dec 
1946 (Campbell 1985), and from Washington, at Bow, 23 km south of Bellingham, 
where one was present from 31 October until after 25 Dec 1999 was caught and 
photographed on 3 Nov (Wahl et al. 2005). 
GYRFALCON Falco rusticolus (11, 1). A dark intermediate-morph juvenile was in 
an agricultural area 11 miles southwest of Corcoran, KIN, 21-23 Nov 2007 (SSuf, 
ERPf; 2007-278; photo in N. Am. Birds 62:144). This record is the southernmost 
for the Gyrfalcon in California and one of the southernmost for this species in North 
America. 
*YELLOW RAIL Coturnicops noveboracensis (84, 6). Committee member Comp- 
ton photographed a series of nests with eggs in the WFVZ collection . All were collected 
at Bridgeport, MNO, in the mid 20 th century by Ralph Dixon: WFVZ #139804, 8-egg 
set, 2 Jun 1939 (2007-248); WFVZ #144451, 9-egg set, 28 Jun 1949 (2007-249); 
WFVZ #86354, 4-egg set, 28 Jun 1949 (2007-250); WFVZ #86355, 8-egg set, 
10 Jun 1950 (2007-251); WFVZ #167458-9, 9-egg set, 30 May 1954 (2007-252; 
Figure 4); WFVZ #167459, 9-egg set, 30 May 1954 (2007-253). The committee 
treats one set of eggs as one individual. This is the minimum number of birds known 
present (there could have been no male present and the eggs infertile, but there is 
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