33RD REPORT OF THE CBRC: 2007 RECORDS 
Riverside (8), Marin (7), Mono (7) San Luis Obispo (6), San Mateo (6), and 
Sonoma (6). 
Highlights of this report include California’s first Townsend’s (Newell’s) 
Shearwater ( Puffinus auricularis newelli), Tristram’s Storm-Petrel ( Oceano - 
droma tristrami), Lesser Frigatebird ( Fregata ariel), Swallow-tailed Kite 
(Elanoides forficatus), Eurasian Kestrel ( Falco tinnunculus), Wood Sand- 
piper ( Tringa glareola), and Common Rosefinch ( Carpodacus erythrinus). 
Other noteworthy records in this report include the state’s second of Cory’s 
Shearwater ( Calonectris diomedea), Bridled Tern (Onychoprion anaethe- 
tus), and Green Violetear ( Colibri thalassinus). Remarkable also were three 
Arctic Warblers ( Phylloscopus borealis) in one fall. 
The committee currently is evaluating a potential first state record of the 
Great Black-backed Gull ( Ear us mar in us). The seven species added in this 
report bring California’s list to 640 species, ten of which are non-native 
and two of which have been extirpated within historical times. The recent 
acceptance of a further additional species, the Bluethroat ( Luscinia suecica), 
will be described in the next report. 
The acceptance rate in this report of 84% is above the weighted average 
of 79.6% over all CBRC reports combined, perhaps because of the increas- 
ing use of digital photography to support records that otherwise might have 
been documented only with written descriptions. The total of 285 records 
reviewed is above the average of 214.4 records per report over the first 
30 reports. 
The list of species reviewed by the CBRC is posted at the California Bird 
Records Committee web site (www.californiabirds.org), which also includes 
the entire California list, the committee’s bylaws, a reporting form for e-mail 
submission of records to the CBRC, contact information for current and 
recent committee members, a photo gallery of recent submissions (including 
some of birds addressed in this report), recent annual reports, information 
on ordering the committee’s publication Rare Birds of California (2007), 
corrigenda for same, a search function for all post-2003 records, and other 
information about the CBRC. 
All documentation reviewed by the CBRC, including copies of descrip- 
tions, photographs, videotapes, audio recordings, and committee members’ 
comments on records submitted, is archived at the Western Foundation of 
Vertebrate Zoology, 439 Calle San Pablo, Camarillo, CA 93012, and is 
available for public review. The CBRC solicits and encourages observers 
to submit documentation of all species on the review list, as well as species 
unrecorded in California. Documentation should be sent to Guy McCaskie, 
CBRC Secretary, P. O. Box 275, Imperial Beach, CA 91933-0275 (e-mail: 
guymcc@pacbell . net) . 
News and Format 
Committee News. The committee’s voting membership after the Janu- 
ary 2009 annual meeting consisted of Paul E. Lehman (chair), Daniel S. 
Singer (vice-chair), Jon L. Dunn, Joseph Morlan, Kristie N. Nelson, James 
E. Pike, Peter Pyle, Brian Sullivan, and Jim Tietz. Guy McCaskie continued 
in his role as nonvoting secretary. Previous committee members who also 
voted on many of the records in this report include David M. Compton, 
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