ON THE COVER: Between late July and early September 2009, 
Cook's Petrels invaded California's nearshore pelagic waters as 
never before recorded, providing unparalleled opportunities 
for study and photography to hundreds of seabirders. This 
individual was photographed over the San Juan Seamount, 
25 July 2009. Photograph by Brian L Sullivan. 
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Contents 
The Nesting Season: June through July 2009 
NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS • AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION • VOLUME 63 • NUMBER 4 • 2010 
540 Occurence and identification of the 
Leach’s Storm-Petrel complex off 
southern California 
Steve N. G. Howell, Todd McGrath, 
W. Terry Hunefeld, and Jon S. Feenstra 
550 Changing Seasons: Think Pink 
Edward 5. Brinkley 
562 Editors’ Notebook 
Edward S. Brinkley 
668 Photo Salon: Cook’s Petrel’s 
off the California Coast 
672 Pictorial Highlights 
The Regional Reports 
564 Atlantic Provinces & 
St. Pierre et Miquelon 
Brian E. Dalzell 
567 (Juebec 
Pierre Bannon, Olivier Barden, Normand David, 
Samuel Denault, and Yves Aubry 
569 New England 
Wayne R. Peterson 
573 Hudson-Delaware 
Robert 0. Paxton, Richard R. Veit, 
and Frank Rohrbacher 
578 Middle Atlantic 
Mark T. Adams and Matt Hafner 
581 Southern Atlantic 
Ken Blankenship 
585 Florida 
Bruce H. Anderson and Andy Bankert 
589 Ontario 
David H. Elder 
592 Eastern Highlands & 
Upper Ohio River Valley 
Aaron Boone, Victor W. Fazio, III, and Rick Wiltraut 
598 Illinois & Indiana 
James D. Hengeveld, Keith A. McMullen, 
and Geoffrey A. Williamson 
600 Western Great Lakes 
Peder H. Svingen 
602 Iowa & Missouri 
Stephen J. Dinsmore 
605 Tennessee & Kentucky 
Chris Sloan and Brainard Palmer-Ball, Jr. 
608 Alabama & Mississippi 
Steven W. McConnell 
61 0 Arkansas & Louisiana 
Steven W. Cardiff 
614 Northern Canada & Greenland 
Cameron D. Eckert 
616 Prairie Provinces 
Rudolf F. Koes and Peter Taylor 
618 Northern Great Plains 
Ron Martin 
619 Southern Great Plains 
Joseph A. Grzybowski and W. Ross Silcock 
623 Texas 
Mark W. Lockwood, Randy Pinkston, 
and Ron Weeks 
626 Colorado & Wyoming 
Lawrence S. Semo, Tony Leukering, 
and BillSchmoker 
629 Idaho & Western Montana 
David Trochlell 
630 New Mexico 
Sartor 0. Williams, III 
634 Arizona 
Mark M. Stevenson and Gary H. Rosenberg 
636 
Great Basin 
Rick Fridell 
537 Alaska 
ThedeTobish 
643 British Columbia 
Chris Charlesworth 
March through July 2009 
646 Oregon & Washington 
David Irons, Douglas Schonewaid, 
Brad Waggoner, and Bill Tweit 
650 Northern California 
Michael M. Rogers, Jeff N. Davis, 
Ed Pandolfino, and Stephen C. Rottenborn 
654 Southern California 
Guy McCaskie and Kimball L. Garrett 
657 Baja California Peninsula 
Richard A. Erickson, Roberto Carmona, 
and Gorgonio Ruiz-Campos 
659 Mexico 
Hector Gomez de Silva 
662 Central America 
H. Lee Jones and Oliver Komar 
663 West Indies & Bermuda 
Robert L. Norton, Anthony White, 
Andrew Dobson, and Eddie Massiah 
665 Hawaiian Islands 
Peter Donaldson 
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. 
Photograph by Jeff Lemons. 
See page 583. 
