Subject: [Tweeters] Caracara sightings
Date: Jul 21 16:25:30 2015
From: Bryn M Kildow - bkildow at me.com


According to here - http://www.birdweb.org/birdweb/bird/crested_caracara - yes, but I don?t know how authoritative this site is. It states:

"General Description
Sightings of Crested Caracara in the Pacific Coast states were long considered suspect due to the possibility that they represented birds escaped from captivity. However, a recent upsurge of records has led to a reconsideration. The Washington Bird Records Committee has now accepted three records as "wild" birds: Ocean Shores (Grays Harbor County) in August 1983, Neah Bay (Clallam County) in January 1998, and Oakville (Grays Harbor County) in May 2006."


Bryn


> On Jul 21, 2015, at 8:59 AM, Patricia Taylor <pat.mary.taylor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was wondering if any Tweeter member knows if the first Crested
> Caracara recorded in Washington in spring of 1998 was accepted by the
> records committee. I believe that it was rejected originally as it was
> regarded as an escape. The bird eventually made its way to Drury Inlet
> in BC: May 4-June 3, 1998 and the Washington committees rejection was
> acknowledged in the province. Has it now been accepted as the status
> has changed in the Northwest?
>
> Three sighting have been made this summer in the Northwest with one in
> western Washington, one in Jasper Alberta, and one yesterday at
> Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. (The photo can be found at
> bcbirdalert.blogspot.ca). There have also been two recent records in
> the interior of British Columbia, one at Fort Fraser August 2005 and
> Revelstoke June 2011.
>
> Keith Taylor
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