[obol] No skimmer 1/29/2008

[Tom Crabtree]

Dave Lauten wrote:  "* * *Simply put "no matter who saw it" means exactly
that.  My question is one of regardless whether it was Roger Tory Peterson,
David Sibley, Kenn Kaufmann, Peter Pyle, Dave Irons, Harry Nehls, Dave
Lauten, George Nobody, Sally Whoever, doesn't matter who - what are the
criteria for accepting a first state record?  You answered it."

 

The OBRC does stick to that criteria.  Roger Tory Peterson wrote about an
Eastern Wood Pewee he had seen and heard at Frenchglen in August 1953 when
he was doing the Big Year with James Fisher that they both wrote about in
Wild America.  With a few additional details he provided in a conversation
at Portland Audubon many years later, this became a record (461-53-02) that
was submitted to the OBRC.  It was rejected because the description was
considered not adequate for a first state record.  So "no matter who saw it"
means exactly that, in this case involving one of the top birders in the
country.

 

Tom Crabtree

Bend, Oregon (doing its best Siberia impersonation these days)

 

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