Hello Tweets,
If you're like me, you perhaps occasionally wonder what happens to
those rare birds once they stop being seen. Most of the time we're
left in mystery, but I believe we might have on mystery solved.
Remember that first year male Common Eider that Sherry Hagen first
found in Westport last October? After a couple weeks or so it
disappeared never to be seen again, or so it seemed, but I suspect
that very same first year male Common Eider was just found in Coos Bay
Oregon, where it will be Oregon's first record of the species.

http://blog.aba.org/2013/03/abarare-common-eider-oregon.html

The photos look very different, but I assume that the bird would have
molted in the meantime?

Westport Bird:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/82286560 at N06/8113453639/

Coos Bay Bird:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/86916960 at N07/8566630758/

Josh Adams
Lynnwood, WA