Here is a Pierce County list of magpie sightings, if you know of others, please let me know.

Ed Swan
Vashon Island

Magpie Sightings for Pierce County



Steilacoom 8-15-1856 Baird, S. F. 1858. Reports of Explorations and Surveys for a Railroad Route to the Pacific Ocean. Vol. 9 (Part 2): 1005pp. Cooper and Suckley list a sighting for an uncertain date in August 1856.



1906 Bowles' Tacoma and vicinity list: rather common migrant, rare summer



Tacoma tideflats Bowles, J. H. 1911. Notes Extending the Range of Certain Birds of the Pacific Slope. Auk 28(2): 169-178. Listed as regular winter visitor, groups of as many as 15-20 going to tide flats and prairies



Dupont 10-9-1917 Slater Museum Collection, DE Brown note cards: Kitchin, birds sighted



Tacoma 2-4-1918 Slater Museum Collection, DE Brown note cards: Kitchin, bird sighted



Crater Lake, Mt. Rainier August 1919, Taylor and Shaw List, seen several times



Bowles, J. H. 1922. Birds of Tacoma and Vicinity. Murrelet, 3: 14-16, winter



Paradise, Mt. Rainier 10-31-1924 Mt. Rainier Nature Notes vol 2, no. 14, F. W. Schmoe



Paradise, Mt. Rainier 11-1-1924 Mt. Rainier Nature Notes vol 2, no. 15, F. W. Schmoe: "stay all winter"



Pierce County 12-15-1935 Slater Museum Collection, DE Brown note cards, specimens collected



Kitchin's 1939 Mt. Rainier list: winter visitor from Yakima Valley go as far as Tacoma tideflats



Wilkeson 10-20-1979 fide Thais Bock/Towhee



Mt. Rainier fall 1979 Am Birds 34(2): 194



Tacoma Mall 5-10-1989 fide Thais Bock/Towhee



Puyallup 7-2-1991 fide Thais Bock/Towhee 2



Tacoma 3-6-1992 fide Gene Hunn/Earthcare NW



Tacoma 12-3-93 Aversa, T. 2001-2006. Washington Field Notes. WOSNEWS. fide Thais Bock, 2 birds



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