Superficially, there seems to be an occasional winter influx of (Pacific?) wrens into the Whatcom County area. I recall many years ago, one was hopping around on the protected sidewalk of a building on the WWU campus (protected from a recent heavy snowfall on the ground). It wasn't a Bewick's Wren. But it was larger and paler than the local P. wrens. And there is mention of that sort of thing in the literature.

Phil Hotlen
Bellingham, WA
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Atkinson" <scottratkinson at hotmail.com>
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 10:01:21 AM
Subject: [Tweeters] AOU wrens, scoters

Tweeters:

Seems to this observer that there was a very solid case for the western and eastern (Winter) Wren split. Gather the big Pribilof birds
retained into the new Pacific Wren. I had an eastern hiemalis type (now by the AOU, "Winter Wren") at Graysmarsh
on October 24th last year; does anyone out there in Tweeterland have knowledge of other WA encounters with this taxon? Seems that more
scrutiny of the T. troglodytes group will be needed--thinking here of two Russian Far East (Winter) Wren forms,
which sounded close to, but different, than either of our newly-split North American species, yet didn't seem to fit easily
with the nominate taxon back in UK/Europe either.

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




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