ON THE COVER: This male Smith's Longspur was one of a small 
flock the Watson Lake airport in southeastern Yukon 26-27 
(here 26) May 2009, a first record for that part ef the territory 
and one of multiple records of migrants in spring 2009 that 
stretched east to Ohio. Photograph by MkaSmtunm. 
DEC 08 2016 
Contents 
Spring Migration: March through May 2009 
NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS • AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION • VOLUME 63 • NUMBER 3 • 2 0 0 9 
364 An Analysis of Unusual flights of Neo- 
tropical Migrants to Northeastern North 
America in April 2009 
Ian A. McClaren and James D. McCiaren 
370 The Changing Seasons: Oscillations 
Edward S. Brinkley 
526 First confirmed record of White-winged 
Becard (Pachyramphus polychopterus) for 
Mexico 
Michael Carmody 
530 Pictorial Highlights 
The Regional Reports 
384 Atlantic Provinces & 
St. Pierre et Miquelon 
Blake Maybank 
389 Quebec 
Pierre Bannon, Olivier Barden, Normand David, 
Samuel Denault, and Yves Aubry 
391 New England 
Simon Perkins 
300 Hudson-Delaware 
Richard R. Veit, Robert 0. Paxton, and 
Frank Rohrbacher 
403 Middle Atlantic 
Mark! Adams and Matt Hafner 
407 Southern Atlantic 
Ken Blankenship 
413 Florida 
Bruce H. Anderson and Andy Bankert 
417 Ontario 
Alan Wormington 
425 Eastern Highlands & 
Upper Ohio River Valley 
Victor W. Fazio, ill, Gabe Leidy, and Rick Wiltraut 
430 Illinois & Indiana 
James D. Hengeveid, Keith A. McMullen, 
and Geoffrey A. Williamson 
433 Western Great Lakes 
Adam M. Byrne 
437 Iowa & Missouri 
Stephen J. Dinsmore 
: 440 Tennessee & Kentucky 
i Chris Sloan and Brainard Palmer-Ball, Jr, 
i 444 Alabama & Mississippi 
; Steven W. McConnell 
I 
i 448 Arkansas & Louisiana 
! Steven W. Cardiff 
i 454 Northern Canada & Greenland 
; Cameron D. Eckert 
i 
! 456 Prairie Provinces 
i Rudolf F. Koes and Peter Taylor 
! 458 Northern Great Plains 
! Ron Martin 
j 
460 Southern Great Plains 
; Joseph A. Grzybowski and W. Ross Silcock 
464 Texas 
: Mark W. Lockwood, Eric Carpenter, 
; and Willie Sekula 
i 
! 469 Colorado & Wyoming 
' Lawrences. Semo, Tony Leukering, 
and Bill Schmoker 
472 Idaho & 
Western Montana 
David Trochlell 
473 New Mexico 
Sartor D. Williams, III 
477 Arizona 
Mark M. Stevenson and Gary H. Rosenberg 
481 
Great Basin 
Rick Fridell 
484 Alaska 
ThedeTobish 
489 Britsh Columbia 
Chris Charlesworth 
August 2008 through February 2009 
491 Oregon & Washington 
David Irons, Douglas Schonewald, and 
Brad Waggoner 
497 Northern California 
Stephen C. Rottenborn, Michael M. Rogers, 
Jeff N. Davis, and Ed Pandolfino 
502 Southern California 
Guy McCaskie and Kimball L. Garrett 
507 Baja California Peninsula 
Richard A. Erickson, Roberto Carmona, 
: and Gorgonio Ruiz-Campos 
i 
i 509 Mexico 
j Hector Gomez de Silva 
! 513 Central America 
I H. Lee Jones and Dliver Komar 
I 518 West Indies & Bermuda 
I Robert L. Norton, Anthony White, Andrew Dobson 
i and Eddie Massiah 
522 Hawaiian Islands 
Peter Donaldson 
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