Subject: [Tweeters] RE: Redwing (Turdus iliacus) more distributions and
Date: Dec 22 13:09:32 2004
From: Scott Atkinson - scottratkinson at hotmail.com


Mike:

Angus is right about this species being comparable to the Lesser Whitethroat
and Spotted Flycatcher for range in Russia (and you could add the
Chiffchaff/Willow Warbler that I recall they had also at St. Lawrence). All
of these have similar far-north taiga belt ranges, but all avoid the Russian
Far East in migration--to the best of my knowledge, Redwing (as well as
Spotted Flycatcher, Lesser Whitethroat and Willow Warbler/Chiffchaff) are
unrecorded for the Russian Far East, including Kamchatka, Sakhalin, and the
mainland krais of Primoriye and Khabarovsk. That being said, the region
gets birded less heavily apparently than Japan, and each species will
probably turn up eventually as accidentals in fall.

The way the text is written, I would bet that if the Far Eastern branch of
the Academy of Sciences is involved, it was someone from Magadan. I don't
know anyone south of there who would be apt to have generated the maps.

Scott Atkinson
Lake Stevens
mail to: scottratkinson at hotmail.com