Those of you who did Chistmas Counts this season may have encountered one or
two Red Phalarope. This was a pretty good year for them as they were
apparently blown in by "the storm of the century."

What follows is a distributional map of count numbers for Red Phalarope from
Christmas counts. Values in parentheses represent best guess approximations.
Since the count period stretches out over a 2 week period, some counts may
not have captured the true abundance of REPH for the period.
Even so, there seems to be a trend. The bulk of the phalarope landfall
occurred on the north/central coast of Oregon where the majority of inland
records appeared as well.

I am still taking data. If you have data from any CBC that has not been
mentioned, send it in and remember 0 (zero) is a data point


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Port Alberni, BC 2
Sequim-Dungeness (23)
Skagit Bay 0
Everett 0
Seattle 0
Kent-Auburn 0
Gray's Harbor (60)
Columbia Estuary 451 12/17/95
Tillamook 4316 12/16/95
Sauvie Island 0 12/23/95
Portland 0 12/30/95
Dallas 0 12/26/95
Salem 10 12/16/95
Corvallis 43 12/19/95
Florence 1304 12/18/95
Eugene 2 12/31/95
Coos Bay 1370 12/17/95
Roseburg 2 12/16/95
Coquille Valley 527 12/23/95
Crystal Spgs, CA 62


Many thanks to all who helped by providing information on phalarope
observations.


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