[obol] Breeding Golden-crowned Sparrows?

[Lars and Gail Norgren]

      Cascade Head seems a good approximation
of their usual breeding habitat. The brief
posting on a July 5 sighting near Tillamook
Head seems worth pursuing. Of course neither
bird need be mated either. The structure of
the Bay-breasted Warbler's habitat in Lewis
County(WA) is certainly taiga-like, but he
is presumably a bachelor.
Lars Norgren
MANNING OREGON
On Jul 15, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Alan Contreras wrote:

> There is a published report of a pair of Golden-crowned Sparrows 
> raising
> four young along East Bay Drive at Coos Bay in 1982.  I included this 
> record
> in Birds of Coos County, but I have only the most casual knowledge of 
> the
> record.  Ben Fawver once told me that he had not seen the birds but 
> that the
> observer was familiar with the species.
>
> The record appeared only in Cape Arago Audubon's Tattler, and I 
> considered
> it worth including in Birds of Coos because the only error I could 
> think of
> was a typo for White-crowned, but that would not have been included in
> Tattler field notes because they are so common.
>
> The observer was R. Lawrence, someone I don't know, who was said to 
> have
> moved to Washington, though that was just a street rumor.
>
> There is no proof of breeding in Oregon, but it is not an outrageous 
> idea
> when you consider that Common Loon, Greater Yellowlegs, Solitary 
> Sandpiper,
> Bohemian Waxwing and White-winged Crossbill have bred in the state.
> Consider also that Least Flycatcher and Northern Waterthrush in Oregon 
> are
> about as far from the "regular" breeding range as a Goolden-crowned 
> Sparrow
> would be.
>
> -- 
> Alan Contreras
> EUGENE, OREGON
> acontrer at mindspring.com
>
>
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