NORTHERN CANADA & GREENLAND 
The Yuton Territory's second well-doi i ni nts J record of Nashville Warbler was provided by this hatch-year female banded at 
the Teslin Lake Bird Observatory 23 September 2008. Photograph byMkaJantumn. 
Nov (MOD). A late Common Nighthawk was 
seen n. of Great Slave L., NWT 1 Sep (SaM, 
StM). Alder Flycatchers outnumbered every 
other migrant at the Teslin Lake B.O. this fall, 
with an amazing total of 811 banded QJa); the 
Observatory also netted 9 Yellow-bellied, 6 
Hammonds, one Dusky, and 2 Least Flycatch- 
ers between 7 Aug and 24 Sep QJa)- A. wave of 
Alder Flycatchers was also recorded at Albert 
Creek B.O., se. Yukon, with 202 banded along 
with 11 Least, 7 Hammond’s, and 2 Yellow-bel- 
lied 24 Jul-20 Sep OJo)- A Philadelphia Vireo 
was seen but not netted at the Albert Creek 
B.O. 3 Aug OJo, AR). 
A Black-billed Magpie, very rare in se. 
Yukon, was seen at Albert Cr. 18 Sep OJo); an- 
other at Mayo, cen. Yukon 6 Oct provided the 
first local record (MOD). A pair of Barn Swal- 
lows building a very late nest 6 Aug made a 
first local record at Arviat, Nunavut (NL, ph. 
LR). An exceptional southbound movement 
of chickadees was recorded at the Teslin Lake 
B.O. 7 Aug-27 Sep: banders netted 138 Bore- 
als, 57 Black-capped, 16 Mountains, plus one 
Chestnut-backed Chickadee (the Yukon’s 
2nd ever) on 17 Sep, and a Boreal Chickadee 
X Mountain Chickadee hybrid on 25 Sep (ph. 
jja). A female Northern Wheatear with a new- 
ly fledged young was at Pond Inlet, Nunavut 
5 Aug (AD, WR). This species is only casual- 
ly reported in fall in the Yukon; one was seen 
at the headwaters of Skookum Cr., s. Yukon 
27 Aug (GW, MW), and 4 could still be found 
in breeding habitat on Mt. Hare, cen. Yukon 
27-29 Aug (LG, JH). An American Robin, 
well n. of its range, was seen at s. Milne Inlet 
on n. Baffin 1 ., Nunavut 9 Aug (AD, TE, GP, 
WR). Cedar Waxwing is a rare breeder in s. 
Yukon; a pair of ads. and 5 fledglings at Teslin 
L. were observed as the young departed the 
nest during 27 Jul-1 Aug (ph. AS); 2 ads. and 
a recently fledged juv. were still near their 
nest site in Whitehorse 6 Aug (HG). Seven 
Cedar Waxwings were noted at Albert Cr. 15 
Sep OJo). 
Table 1 .Total number of warblers banded at Albert Creek 
and Teslin Lake Bird Observatories, southern Yukon. 
Species | Albert Creek 
Teslin lake 
Tennessee Warbler | 28 
0 
Orange-crowned Warbler 
87 
101 
Nashville Warbler 
0 
1 
Yellow Warbler 
93 
486 
Magnolia Warbler 
38 
1 
Cape May Warbler 
2 
0 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 
106 
50 
Biackpoll Warbler 
19 
47 
American Redstart 
90 
10 
Northern Waterthrush 
195 
46 
MacGillivray's Warbler 
0 
1 
Common Yellowthroat 
191 
66 
Wilson's Warbler 
143 
113 
A record-late Orange-crowned Warbler was 
clinging to life and facing an impending cold 
snap to -20° C in Whitehorse, s. Yukon 30 Oct 
(ph. TMK). The Yukon’s 2nd well-document- 
ed Nashville Warbler, a hatch-year female, 
was banded at the Teslin Lake B.O. 23 Sep 
(ph. Jja). Southern Yukon fall banding totals 
from Albert Creek B.O. 0Jo> TMK) located 
near Watson L., se. Yukon, and Teslin Lake 
B.O. OJa, BSc), located about 200 km due w., 
provide a nice comparison of warbler migra- 
tion across the w. edge of the range for a num- 
ber of species (Table 1). A hatch-year Ameri- 
can Redstart at Arviat, Nunavut 2 Sep died de- 
spite attempts at hand-feeding it flies (NL, ph. 
LR); another was seen there 8 Sep (NL). 
Rare sparrows seen in the Whitehorse 
area, s. Yukon were a Song Sparrow at Porter 
Creek 17-20 Sep (ph. CE, PS) and a juv. 
White-throated Sparrow at the Takhini hot 
springs 28 Sep (ph. CE). A streaming flock of 
about 300 migrant sparrows, mostly White- 
crowned, was noted at Porter Creek, White- 
horse, s. Yukon 29 Aug (PS). Lapland- 
Longspur migration peaked at Herschel L, n. 
Yukon 16 Aug, with a count of 500 (CE); 
Herschel’s last Lapland Longspur of the sea- 
son was seen 20 Sep (EH, AK). Three Red- 
winged Blackbirds, unexpected so far n., 
were at Pond Inlet, Nunavut 20 Aug (AD, 
’WR). An ad. male Common Crackle, the 
Yukon’s 5th, in Whitehorse 9 Oct-15 Nov 
was found freshly dead of cold and starva- 
tion on the last date (ph. CE; BD; HG; PS). 
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch is rarely seen dur- 
ing fall migration in the Yukon; a flock of 9 
was at a feeder 10 km n. of Mayo, cen. Yukon 
during the last week in Oct {fide MOD); 2 
were seen at Destruction Bay, sw. Yukon 1-4 
Nov (MF); of the interior subspecies visited 
a Faro feeder, cen. Yukon 17 Nov (ph. TJ); 
and one was at L. Laberge, s. Yukon 21 Nov 
(KO). An exceedingly tame Hoary Redpoll 
photographed at Arviat, Nunavut 25 Oct 
(NL, ph. LR) had a deep-based bill sugges- 
tive of the nominate subspecies from Green- 
land. The small population of House Spar- 
rows in Whitehorse, s. Yukon didn’t exactly 
explode last summer; the highest count of 
the season, 22 on 3 Nov (CE), was quite sim- 
ilar to that recorded in 2007. 
Contributors (subregional editors in bold- 
face): Ken Abraham, Deon Arey, Julie Bauer 
OuB), Jeremy Baumbach O^B), Sylvie Binette, 
Andrew Davis, Bruce Di Labio (BDL), Boris 
Dobrowolsky, lone Christensen, Cameron 
Eckert, Ted Elliott, Marsha Flummerfelt, Lin- 
da Gerrand, Helmut Grtinberg, Elizabeth 
Hofer, Jurg Hofer, Jean Iron, Jukka Jantunen 
(JJa), JillianJohnston (JJo), Tanjajurasz, Alice 
Kenney, Nadine Lamoureux, Yvette Lepage, 
Lee John Meeyok (LJM), Edward McLeod, 
Marina Milligan, Sandra Moore (SaM), Steve 
Moore (StM), Ted Murphy-Kelly, Erin 
Neufeld, Mark O’Donoghue (MOD), Bridget 
Olson, Caley Osborne, Debbie Osborne, Katie 
Ostrom, Lisa Pauls, Gerald Perron, Mac 
Prawdzik (MaP), Mike Prawdzik (MiP), 
Wayne Renaud, Wolf Riedl (WRi), Lynne 
Rollin, Amber Rudd, Ben Schonewille (BSc), 
Pam Sinclair, Adam Skratkowski, Rick Staley, 
Robert Stitt, Betty Sutton (BSu), Douglas Tate 
(Northwest Territories), Gary Vizniowski, Ben 
Walters, Gerry Whitley, Mary Whitley. O 
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