ARIZONA BIRD COMMITTEE REPORT: 1996-1999 RECORDS

Abstract

The Arizona Bird Committee assessed 218 records, accepting 138. These included Arizona's first records of the Leach's (Oceanodroma leucorhoa), Black (O. melania), and Least (O. microsoma) Storm-Petrels; Short-tailed Hawk (Buteo brachyurus); Pacific Golden-Plover (Pluvialis fulva); Yellow-footed Gull (Larus livens); and Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus), bringing the number of bird species recorded in Arizona to 522.