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From: dmark@cs.Buffalo.EDU (David Mark)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Eurasian Birds in N.A.
Message-ID: <4386@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Date: 25 Feb 89 13:42:52 GMT
References: <1989Feb20.151705.2347@utzoo.uucp> <1958@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Reply-To: dmark@sunybcs.UUCP (David Mark)
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In article <1958@nmtsun.nmt.edu> john@nmtsun.nmt.edu (John Shipman) writes:
>I don't have the reference right here in front of me, but I'm
>fairly sure _American Birds_ has printed several reports of
>Eurasian Wigeon breeding in Alaska, and possibly as far south as
>coastal Washington.   ...

The A.O.U. Check-list (1983) lists no breeding record of Eurasian
Wigeon from North America.  I do not recall reading of confirmation
anywhere, either.  They are fairly common in southwestern British
Columbia in winter, perhaps 1 in 200, so a large wigeon flock often
includes 1 or 2.  And, most of the females presumably go unrecorded.

There are very few (if any?) summer records in that region, and I assume
that if they breed in North America at all, it would be in western and/or
northern Alaska.

David Mark
dmark@cw.buffalo.edu