33RD REPORT OF THE CBRC: 2007 RECORDS 
Kimball L. Garrett, Matthew T. Heindel, Marshall J. Iliff, Alvaro Jaramillo, 
and Scott B. Terrill. 
As noted by Shuford (2006) and Iliff et al. (2007), California Birds/ 
Western Birds is now available online via SORA, the Searchable Ornitho- 
logical Research Archives (http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora), and all previously 
published CBRC reports through 2005 are available through that site. 
Format and Abbreviations. As in other recent CBRC reports, records are 
generally listed chronologically by first date of occurrence and/or geographi- 
cally from north to south. Included with each record is the location, county 
abbreviation (see below), and date span. The date span usually follows that 
published in North American Birds (hereafter N. Am. Birds; formerly Ameri- 
can Birds and Field Notes), but, if the CBRC accepts a date span differing 
from that in a published source, the differing dates are italicized. Initials of the 
observer(s) responsible for finding and/or identifying the bird(s) — if known and 
if they supplied supportive documentation — are followed by a semicolon, then 
the initials, in alphabetized order by surname, of additional observers submit- 
ting supportive documentation, then the CBRC record number consisting of 
the year of submission and a chronological number assigned by the secretary. 
All records are sight records unless otherwise indicated: initials followed by a 
dagger (t) indicate the observer supplied a supportive photograph, (t) indicates 
video, (§) indicates a voice recording, and (#) indicates a specimen record, fol- 
lowed by the acronym (see below) of the institution housing the specimen and 
that institution’s specimen catalog number. An asterisk (*) prior to a species’ 
name indicates that the species is no longer on the CBRC’s review list. 
In this report, the first number in parentheses after the species’ name is 
the number of individual birds accepted by the CBRC through this report, 
not the number of accepted records ; the number of individual birds may be 
higher than the number of records because historically the committee has 
treated groups of individuals appearing together with a single record number 
(e.g., a flock of Common Redpolls, Carduelis flammed). The second num- 
ber is the number of new individuals accepted in this report (because this 
number excludes records thought to pertain to returning individuals treated 
in previous reports, it may be zero). Two asterisks (**) after the species’ 
total indicate that the number of accepted records refers only to a restricted 
review period or includes records accepted for statistical purposes only; see 
Roberson (1986) for more information. 
When individual birds return to a location after a lengthy or seasonal 
absence, each occurrence is reviewed under a separate record number, and 
committee members indicate whether or not they believe the bird is the 
same as one accepted previously. Such decisions follow the opinion of the 
majority of members, and, if a bird is considered a returning individual, the 
total number of individuals remains unchanged. 
Although the CBRC does not formally review the age, sex, or subspe- 
cies of each bird, information on these subjects is often provided during 
the review process (and in some cases a strong majority or consensus is 
achieved). We report much of this information; the diagnosis of age, sex, 
or subspecies is the authors’ opinion based on the evidence in the files and 
committee members’ comments. Our terminology for age follows that used 
in text accounts by the CBRC (2007). 
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