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American Birding

THE WINTER SEASON

North American Birds A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGICAL RECORD PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION

VOLUME 57: NO. 2, 2003 ß DECEMBER 2002 THROUGH FEBRUARY 2003

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The Winter Season: December 2002 through February 2003 BIRDS - AM RICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION ß VOLUE 57 ß NUBER

The Vagrancy of Gray Kingbird in North America

George t. Armistead and Marshall J. Iliff

Editors' Notebook

The Changing Seasons Stephen J. Dinsmore and Joe Fontaine

First Atlantic Ocean and

Gulf of Mexico specimen of Short-tailed Shearwater Andrew W. Kratter and Oavid W. Steadman

Probable hybridization between Elegant Tern and Sandwich Tern in west-central Florida

Richard T. Paul, Bill Pranty, Ann F. Paul, Ann B. Hodgson, and David J. Powell

172 Atlantic Provinces & St. Pierre et Miquelon Brian Dalzell

175 Quebec Pierre Bannon, Samuel 0enault, Yves Aubry, and Normand David

177 New England Pain Hunt

181 Hudson-Delaware Joseph C. gurgiel, David A. Cutler, Steve Kelling, Robert O. Paxton, and Richard R.Veit

]85 Middle Atlantic Marshall J. Iliff

189 Southern Atlantic Ricky Davis

192 Florida Bruce H.Anderson

195 Ontario Hugh G. Currie

197 Eastern Highlands & Upper Ohio River Valley Robert C. teberman

200 Illinois & Indiana Kenneth J. Brock •

203 Western Great Lakes Jim Granlund

206 Iowa & Missouri Robert Cecil

209 Tennessee & Kentucky Chris 51oan and Brainard Palmer-Ball, Jr.

212 Central Southern C. Dwight Cooley

216 Prairie Provinces Rudolf F. Koes and Peter Taylor

218 Northern Great Plains Ron Martin

219 Southern Great Plains

Joseph A. Grzybowski

222 Texas Mark W. Lockwood

227 Idaho & Western Montana 0avid Ir0chlell

229 Mountain West Brandon K. Percival, Van A. Truan, and Christopher L. Wood

232 Great Basin Rick Fridell and Steve Summers

235 New Mexico Sartor O. Williams III

238 Arizona Gary H. Rosenberg and Mark M. Stevenson

241 Alaska Thede Tobish

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British Columbia & Yukon Donald G. Cecile

Oregon & Washington Steven Mlodinow, David Irons, and Bill Tweit

Middle Pacific Coast

Scott B. Terrill, Thomas ' P. Ryan, Michael M. Rogers, Steven A. Glover, and Luke Cole

Southern Pacific Coast

Guy McCaskie and Kimball L Garrett

Baja California Peninsula Robert A. Hamilton, Richard A. Erickson, Eduardo PalaciDs, and Roberto Carmona

Mexico

H•ctor 66mez de Silva

Central America H. Lee Jones

West Indies & Bermuda

Robert L Norton, Anthony White, and Andrew Dobson

Hawaii

Robert L Pyle and Pete, qonaldson

Pictorial Highlights

ON THE COVER:

A Blue Mockingbird, Texas's second, has been a regular visitor to a feeding station in Pharr, Hidalgo County, Texas. When originally discuve•ed, it was in juvenal plumage, but the bini has since molted into adult plumage, as seen here 17 February 2003. Photograph by Cotmen Torontino.

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AmericanBirding A $ S O C [ A T I O N

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North American Birds is published by the American Birding Association.

The mission of the journal is to provide a complete overview of the changmg panorama of our continents birdlife, including outstanding records, range extensions and contractions, population dynamics, and changes in migration patterns or seasonal occurrence. We welcome submission of papers in these areas; papers and other communication should be sent to North American Birds, 9 Randolph Avenue, Cape Charles, VA 23310. For correspondence on photographic material,

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EDITOR ASSOCIATE EDITORS PHOTO EDITOR

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william J. Eddletnan, David H. Elder, Walter G. Ellison, Richard A. Erickson, Rick Fridell, Steve Kdling, Kimball L. Garrett, Steven A. Glover, H•ctor GOmez de Silva, Jim Granlund, Joseph A. Grzybowski, Robert A. Hamilton, Matthew L. Holder, Pam Hunt, Marshall J. 11iff, David Irons, H. Lee Jones, Rudolf E Koes. Robert C. Leberman, Bruce Macravish, Mark Lockwood, Nancy L.

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Peter Iaylor, Scott B. Ierrill, Ihede G. 1obish Jr., David Irochlell, Van A. Iruan, Bill Iwe]t, Richard R. Veit. Phillip A. Wallace, Sattot O. Williams Ill, Christopher L. Wood

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