CENTRAL AMERICA 
This male Bobolink, one of a group of three seen on a hilltop above the 
Chatham Bay Ranger Station on 28 April 2009, provided the second spring 
record for Cocos Island in three years. Photograph by Jason Horn. 
Caribbean slope of Costa Rica. A female was 
seen at Puerto Viejo de Sarapiqui 4 Apr (AD), 
and 4 females and 2 males were seen about 
500 m away 24 Apr QZ). These records are in- 
dicative of an expansion in the country to the 
north and west. Elsewhere in the Caribbean 
lowlands, 2 females and a male were seen at 
Cano Blanco de Siquirres, Limon 7 Apr (MG). 
Spot-breasted Oriole has a patchy distribution 
in Alta Verapaz- Two seen in Finca Chimelb, 4 
Contributors (country coordinators 
in boldface): Bill Adsett (BAd), 
Charles Adsett (CAd), Bill Aherns 
(BAh), Claudia Aherns (CAh), Joel 
Alvarado, Kereen Alvarez, Bjorn An- 
derson, David Anderson (Hon- 
duras), Lety Andino, George 
Angehr (Panama), Dennis Arendt, 
Claudia Avendano, Mychal Balder- 
amos, Philip Balderamos, Jim Bev- 
eridge, Everilda Buchan, David Bustamante, 
Patrick Bustamante (PBu), Euclides Campos, 
Ernesto Carman (ErC), Carlos Clarke, Jan 
Axel Cubilla, Marion Czaja, Adolfo Downs, 
Dale Dyer, Kevin Easley, Steven Easley, Knut 
Eisermann (KnE) (Guatemala), Mario Es- 
pinal, Jesse Fagan (El Salvador), Bert Frenz, 
Carlos Funes, Mark Garland, Richard Gar- 
rigues, Luis Giron, Fatima Hawthorne, Javier 
Hernandez, Nestor Herrera, Barbara Horn, Ja- 
km w. of Lanquin 6 Apr (KnE, CA) 
were at a new location. The 15-20 
Tricolored Munias seen at San Nar- 
ciso Village, Corozal in Feb were still 
present on 15 Mar (PB, MB, SM, GS 
et al). 
West Indies & Bermuda 
son Horn, Corey Husic, Ricardo Ibarra, Jan 
Ake Johanson, Lee Jones (Belize), Roselvy 
Juarez, Karl Kaufmann, Oliver Komar, Karla 
Lara, Thomas K. Larsen, Felipe Lopez, Loren- 
zo Lopez, Josue de Leon Lux, Lester de Leon 
Lux, Bruce Mactavish, Esmeralda Martinez, 
Roni Martinez (RMa), Jeffrey McCrary 
(Nicaragua), Nicole Michel, Rosabel Mirb, 
Steve Mitten, Ileana Molina, Darien Mon- 
tanez, Randy Moore (RMo), Paul Murgatroyd, 
Luis Oliveros, Luis Pineda, Diana Quijano, 
Osvaldo Quintero, Laura Reyes, Joshua 
Richards, Roberto Rivera, W. Douglas Robin- 
son, Melissa Rodriguez, Ghislain Rompre, 
Graham Sampson, Alvaro Sanchez, Sven 
Sjbstedt, Joe Taylor, Andrew Vallely, John van 
Dort, Ricardo Velasquez, Elaida Villanueva, 
Katia Weitendorf, Venicio Wilson, Jim Wolfe, 
Bruce Young, Carlos Zaldana, Jim Zook (Cos- 
ta Rica), Andres Zuniga. O 
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Colton, California 92324, (leeJones@att.net) 
Oliver Komar 
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33 Avenida Sur #640, San Salvador, El Salvador 
(okomar@salvanatijra.org) 
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O n Bermuda, on about 21 March 2009, 
the first Bermuda Petrel (Cahow) 
since 1620 hatched on Nonsuch Is- 
land. The hatchling was named “Somers,” in 
honor of Admiral Sir George Somers, who 
founded the English colony on Bermuda in 
July 1609. This triumph is the culmination of 
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nearly six decades of intense conservation ef- 
forts, which have brought this species back 
from the brink of extinction, from just a few 
pairs to now 90 pairs, a modern record, in the 
2008-2009 breeding season. Somers’ fledging 
in June 2009, 400 years after his eponym 
shipwrecked at Bermuda, is the first fruit of 
the twin efforts to restore Nonsuch to its pre- 
colonial state and to translocate fledg- 
ing Cahows to the island, in hopes 
that they would return to nest here, 
an island with greater elevation (and 
thus more protection against storms 
and sea-level rise) and offering nu- 
merous artificial burrows as well as a 
natural, rat-free environment. It is 
impossible to over-laud this ongoing 
achievement, one of the great conser- 
vation tales of our age. 
Notable Bermuda bird sightings in- 
clude the first Ross’s Goose, second 
Common Greenshank, and a rare 
spring Horned Lark. Guadeloupe had 
its first record of Eurasian Kestrel, 
and Barbados recorded North Ameri- 
ca’s second, and West Indies’ first, 
Gray-hooded Gull. After more than a 
decade in the preparation. The Birds of Barba- 
dos has been published (2009. Buckley, P. A., 
Edward B. Massiah, Maurice B. Hutt, 
Francine G. Buckley, and Hazel E Hutt. 2009. 
The Birds of Barbados: An Annotated Checklist. 
BOU Checklist No. 24. Peterborough, United 
Kingdom: British Ornithologists’ Union). 
With over 300 pages, including 32 color 
A Mute Swan, the second for the West Indies and the Bahamas, was 
photographed at Reef Golf Course, Grand Bahama Island 28 (here) and 
29 May 2009. The first was a first-winter bird photographed at Baker’s 
Bay, Great Guana Cay, Abaco Island 27-28 January 2005. There is no 
Mute Swan known to be held in waterfowl collections in the Bahamas. 
Photograph by Mike Acosta. 
NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS 
