PICTORIAL HIGHLIGHTS 
1 • Northern Alaska's first ever Cuculus was this immature hepatic-morph Common Cuckoo that appeared at a 
remote homesite near the Arctic Coast 9 September 2008 (here) and remained through the 11th. There are 
only a few Mainland Alaska records for Old World cuckoos, which are more regularly found in migration at 
Bering Sea outposts. Photograph by James Helmericks. 
2 • An adult male Ruby-throated Hummingbird at Patagonia 1 2 September 2008, Arizona's third, was almost 
certainly the same individual returning to the same feeder almost exactly one year later. Photograph by 
Christie Van Cleve. 
3 • Alabama's second Dusky Flycatcher brought excitement to the Hummer-Bird Study Group banding station 
at Fort Morgan, Baldwin County 14 October 2008. Photograph by Martha B. Sargent. 
4 & 5 • Mexico doubled its number of Northern Wheatear records when these two birds were found at Villa 
Jesus Maria, Baja California on 3 October 2008 (left) and 24 October 2008. According to Killian Mullarney, the 
first bird (left) was an adult male in fresh basic plumage, whereas the second bird can only be identified as 
not an adult male. Photographs by Peter A. Gaede (ieft) and Christopher L. Wood. 
6 • Baja California Sur became only the third North American state — after Alaska and California — known to 
have hosted a Little Bunting when this bird stunned observers at Rancho San Jose de Castro on 8 October 
2008. Photograph by Kurt A. Radamaker. 
7 • Baja California Sur still trails Baja California by three in the number of warbler species recorded, after this 
Bay-breasted Warbler at Bahia Asuncion 21 October 2008 established the first state record. Photograph by 
Richard A. Erickson. 
VOLUME 63 (2009) 
NUMBER 1 
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