Pictorial Highlights 
1 • This lone Taiga Bean-Goose appeared briefly on the Adak Island, Alaska airport runway on 18 May 
2009; this represents only the second confirmed Aleutian record of this casual Alaska visitor. Photo- 
graph by Isaac Helmericks. 
2 ' One of very few reports for the Alaskan Interior, this male Cinnamon Teal hung out with a female 
on a meltwater pond at Milepost 1330 of the Alaska Highway north of Tok on 14 and (here) IS May 
2009. Photograph by Luke DeCicco. 
3 • This adult Iceland Gull at Kodiak's waterfront on 29 March 2009 appears to exhibit traits of the 
nominate subspecies, possibly the first definitive Alaskan record of this subspecies. Photograph by 
Richard A. Macintosh. 
4 • This Least Sandpiper, the first substantiated for the Central or Western Aleutians, was a surprising 
find after three days of westerly and southwesterly winds, it was found and photographed in the 
grassy edge of the Clam Lagoon mudflat on 1 9 May 2009. Photograph by Johnny Powell. 
5 • Newfoundland's third Garganey was very photogenic at a St. John's city park on the first day (15 
May 2009) of a three-day visit before it moved into heavily vegetated marsh where it was difficult to 
view. Photograph by Bruce Mactavish. 
6 • This male Audubon's Warbler frequented a nectar-laden bottlebrush hedge 11-18 (here 1 1 ) April 
2009 at a private residence on Dauphin Island, Mobile County for Alabama's twelfth record of this 
western subspecies of Yellow-rumped Warbler. Photograph by Terry Hartley. 
7 • Providing the fifth confirmed breeding occurrence for Louisiana (all from Cameron Parish since 
1994), this Snowy Plover chick was discovered on Rutherford Beach 2 May 2009. Photograph by Donna 
L. Dittmann. 
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