** Reply to note from Michael Price

> Hi Tweets
>
> This evening, while chewing on the problem of just how to get an American
> Oystercatcher Haematopus palliatus from the Atlantic Coast across the
> continent to the shoreline of Washington State, the question came up for me:
> what if it's not American Oystercatcher after all, but Eurasian
> Oystercatcher H. ostralegus, "highly migratory" to quote 'Shorebirds'
> (Hayman et al)? It would be the same situation as Long-billed Murrelet
> Brachyramphus perdix but in reverse.
<snip>

Unfortunately, Michael, you are forgetting about the various races of American
Oystercatcher which inhabit the west coast from Baja southward, _H. palliatus
frazeri_ of Baja being the closest geographically to Washington State. This
population is considered "probably non-migratory" (Birds of N. America, 1994).
Gee, another possible Baja bird. Anyone seeing a pattern here?

- Jack


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