BAJA CALIFORNIA PENINSULA 
at Bahia Tortugas 5 Oct (RAE, MJB, PAG) and 
El Rosario 6 Oct (ph. MJB), and the lone Bal- 
timore was at Punta Banda 23 Oct (SNGH). A 
Hooded Oriole at Bahia de los Angeles 30 Oct 
(ME GF) was late, and single Bullock’s Ori- 
oles at Catavina 6 Oct (PAG, RAE) and Bahia 
Asuncion 21-26 Oct (RAE, MSM, SNGH) 
were the only ones found s. of El Rosario. 
Pine Siskins were reported only from Bahia de 
los Angeles: 3 on 2 Nov and one on 13 Nov 
(ME, GF). 
Contributors: Nallely Arce, Victor Ayala, 
Jessie H. Barry, Mark]. Billings, Melissa S. But- 
ler, Roberto Carmona, Cliff Cordy Richard A. 
Erickson, Jonathan S. Feenstra, George Flick- 
er, Mary Flicker, Peter A. Gaede, Ken Gardner, 
Martha M. Gomez Sapiens, Marco Antonio 
Gonzalez-Bernal, Manuel Grosselet, Antonio 
Gutierrez-Aguilar, Steve N.G. Howell, W. Ter- 
ry Hunefeld, Marshall J. Iliff (eBird), Jay 
Keller, Guadalupe Matron, Amy McAndrews, 
James McDaniels, Deniss Morales, Francisco 
Oceguera, Hugo Ortiz, John O’Sullivan, Ed- 
uardo Palacios, Oscar Pina, David j. Powell, 
David W. Povey Kurt A. Radamaker, Gary H. 
Rosenberg, Gorgonio Ruiz-Campos, Matt Sad- 
owski, Mike San Miguel, Jamie Simmons, Ed- 
uardo Soto Montoya, Lea D. Squires, Joe 
Sweeney, John Waltman, Christopher L. 
Wood, Guadalupe Yepez, Anjelica Young, En- 
rique D. Zamora-Hernandez. O 
Richard A. Erickson, LSA Associates 
20 Executive Park, Suite 200, irvine, California 92614 
(richard.erickson@lsa-assoc.com) 
Roberto Carmona, Departamento de Biologia Marina 
Universidad Autonoma de Baja California Sur 
Apartado Postal 19-B, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico 
{beauty@uabcs.mx) 
Gorgonio Ruiz-Campos, Facultad de Ciencias 
Universidad Autonoma de Baja California 
Apartado Postal 233 
Ensenada, Baja California, 22800, Mexico 
U. S. mailing address: 
PMB064,P.0. Box 189003 
Coronado, California 92178-9003 
(gruiz@uabc.mx) 
Mexico I 
Htctor Gomez de Silva American and Greater Flamingos, old and 
current reports came to my attention of up to 
NORTHERN MEXICO 4 American Flamingos with one Greater 
WATERFOWL THROUGH 
BLACKBIRDS 
On 30 Aug and 2 Noy 12 and 5 Fulvous and 60 
and 80 Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks, respec- 
tively, were seen in a raw sewage pond near Eji- 
do Las Huertas in the urban area of Torreon, 
Coah. (FVP, RLL); these ducks are rarely seen 
in the cen. highlands, but this particular pond 
has proven to be very regular in producing 
sighting of both. A female Hooded Merganser 
and a Red-breasted Merganser were at the San 
Bias, Nay. shrimp ponds 30 Nov (KR, CR). 
A subad. Jabiru was found in a roadside 
pond in Tamps, about 56 km s. of the 
Brownsville/Matamoros border crossing 4 
Aug QM ph, SS, HM); after comparing photo- 
graphs, observers believe this may be the 
same as the subad. found in Texas a few days 
later. Mimicking Texas records of single 
Flamingo (presumably the escapee from 
Kansas) in Altamira, Tamps. 5 Dec 2006, 
from the last week of Oct to the 3rd week of 
Nov 2007, and from 14 Oct through 18 Dec 
2008 (ph. AFC, JS, ph. RAR, ph. RHZ). An ad. 
White-tailed Hawk was at km marker 139 n. 
of Mazatlan, Sin. along the free road between 
Mazatlan and Culiacan 23 Aug (ph. LH, ph. 
DVP), a stretch along which the species was 
also observed in Feb 2006 and 2007 (ESB). 
Three Forster’s Terns were seen in a raw 
sewage pond near Ejido Las Huertas in the ur- 
ban area of Torreon 30 Aug (RLL, FVP); this 
tern had been recorded in the area previously 
only in 1984. Well over 200 Wilson’s Phala- 
ropes were seen in the same spot 30 Aug 
(RLL, FVP). 
The first records of Eurasian Collared- 
Dove in Torreon by resident birders were of 
singles 2 Aug, 4 Oct, and 1 Nov along Aveni- 
da Pamanes (FVP), and 2 were seen between 
Culiacan, Sin. and Mazatlan 18 Aug (DVP, 
LH). Despite frequent trips to the area of 
Coah. ne. of Torreon by local birders, 
Eurasian Collared-Doves were not seen until 
mid-Nov 2007 in Ejido Francisco Urquizo 
(about 48 km ne. of Torreon), and not until 
mid-Jan 2008 were they seen in San Pedro de 
las Colonias, Cuatrocienegas, Nadadores, San 
Buenaventura, Frontera, Monclova, Sabinas 
and Nueva Rosita (BB). Pronatura Noreste 
and American Bird Conservancy placed 20 
nest-boxes for Thick-billed Parrots in Chih. 
this nesting season (the first year in which 
nest-boxes have been provided); three nest- 
boxes were used and “at least one pair was 
successful in raising chicks” in a nest-box 
(<www.abcbirds.org>). A Thick-billed Parrot 
flew over Barranca Rancho Liebre, Sin. 29 
Nov (CR, KR, MS, SH). 
A Greenish Elaenia was on La Petaca road. 
Sin. 20 Aug (LH, DVP). A Red-eyed Vireo 
and a Prairie Warbler were in Parque 
Ecologico Chipinque 27 Sep (AGS, JIS, RS, 
ph. DZ, GR). Two Eastern Meadowlarks were 
reportedly heard at the Mazatlan airport 18 
Aug (DVP, LH). A Yellow-headed Blackbird 
was at Rancho Picachos 2 Aug (RS). 
Contributors (area compilers in boldface): 
Rogelio Arteaga Ruiz, William Beaty, Edward 
S. Brinkley Alejandro Fierro Cabo, Adrian 
Ganem Sada, Steve Hampton, Lauren Harter, 
Ruben Herver Zarate, Hector Manzano, Jody 
Mays, Cindy Radamaker, Kurt Radamaker, 
Gustavo Ramirez, Juan Ignacio Sada, Rene 
Sada, Jaime Salinas, Diana Zorrilla. 
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