ON THE COVER: Florida's first breeding Least Grebes fledged 
two young in Palm Beach in September and October (here 12 
October) 2008. Least Grebes also seem to be expanding north- 
ward in Texas, and one remarkable bird was documented in 
Arkansas in autumn 2008 . It is possible, however, that Florida's 
birds came from the West Indies. Photograph by Ron Kern. 
Contents 
Fall Migration: August through November 2008 
NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS • AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION • VOLUME 63 • NUMBER 1 • 2 0 0 9 
4 A Sungrebe (Heliomis fidica) in New 
Mexico: a first for the United States 
Sartor 0. Williams III, Sally A. King, Stephen M. 
Fettig, Jerry R. Oldenettel, and John E. Parmeter 
10 First North American record of 
White-crested Elaenia (Elaenia albiceps 
chilensis) at South Padre Island, Texas 
Martin Reid and Daniel Jones 
16 Tfie Changing Seasons: Cornucopia 
Paul E. Lehman and Edward S. Brinkley 
34 Editor’s Notebook 
37 In Memoriam: 
Robert Lawrence I^le 
Edward S. Brinkley 
178 First record of Solitary Snipe 
(Gallinago solitaria) for North America 
on Saint Paul Island, Alaska 
Gavin Bieber and Scott Schuette 
182 Photo Salon: 
Wandering Albatross in Oregon 
184 Pictorial Highlights 
The Regional Reports 
38 Atlantic Provinces & 
St. Pierre et Miquelon 
Bruce Mactavish 
40 Quebec 
Pierre Bannon, Olivier Barden, Normand David, 
Samuel Denault, and Yves Aubry 
i 66 Florida 
! Bruce H. Anderson and Andy Bankert 
I 
I 70 Ontario 
i Margaret J. C. Bain 
! 75 Eastern Highlands & 
! Upper Ohio River Valley 
Victor W. Fazio, III and Rick Wiltraut 
82 Illinois & Indiana 
James D. Hengeveld, Keith A. McMullen, 
I and Geoffrey A. Williamson 
: 85 Western Great Lakes 
• PederH. Svingen 
i 88 Iowa & Missouri 
' Bill Eddleman 
91 Tennessee & Kentucky 
Chris Sloan and Brainard Palmer-Ball, Jr. 
i 96 Alabama & Mississippi 
I Greg D. Jackson 
I 
I 101 Arkansas & Louisiana 
j Steven W. Cardiff 
I 106 Northern Canada & Greenland 
Cameron D. Eckert 
I 109 Prairie Provinces 
1 Rudolf F. Koes and Peter Taylor 
i 
s m Northern Great Plains 
Ron Martin 
! 
i 112 Southern Great Plains 
Joseph A. Grzybowski and W. Ross SIkock 
126 Idaho & 
Western Montana 
David Trochlell 
; 127 New Mexico 
i Sartor 0. Williams, III 
; 131 Arizona 
I Mark M. Stevenson and Gary H. Rosenberg 
i 
135 Great Basin 
: Rick Fridell 
! 
1 138 Alaska 
ThedeTobish 
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! 143 Oregon & Washington 
I David irons, Douglas Schonewald, 
Brad Waggoner; and Bill Tweit 
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150 Northern California 
Steven A. Glover, Ed Pandolfino, 
Stephen C. Rottenborn, and Michael M. Rogers 
I 156 Southern California 
: Guy McCaskie and Kimball L. Garrett 
161 Baja California Peninsula 
Richard A. Erickson, Roberto Carmona, 
I and Gorgonio Ruiz-Campos 
I 163 Mexico 
i Hector Gomez de Silva 
i 167 Central America 
! H. Lee Jones and Oliver Komar 
I 173 West Indies & Bermuda 
j Andrew Dobson, Anthony White, 
{ and Robert L. Norton 
43 New England 
Walter G. Ellison and Nancy L. Martin 
49 Hudson-Delaware 
Robert 0. Paxton, Richard R. Veit, 
and Frank Rohrbacher 
54 Middle Atlantic 
Mark T. Adams and Matt Hafner 
61 Southern Atlantic 
Ken Blankenship 
I 176 Hawaiian Islands 
I Peter Donaldson 
“WJ Texas 
Mark W. Lockwood, Eric Carpenter, 
and Willie Sekula 
122 Colorado & Wyoming 
Lawrence S. Semo, Tony Leukering, 
and Bill Schmoker 
