[ORyoungbirder] Next Oregon bird results !

[Alan Contreras]

24 birders cast 5 weighted votes each for their top five birds most likely
to be added to the Oregon list.  I'll put these lists and some additional
comments, including my personal Top Ten guesses, on my bird photo blog
www.contrerasbirds.blogspot.com for easy future reference.

Comments on this list are welcome.

The top 10, with cumulated vote totals (left) and number of first-place
votes (in parentheses right), are:

 30 Black Vulture (3)
 26 Siberian Accentor (1)
 26 White-eyed Vireo (3)
 25 Black Skimmer (2)
 20 Greater Shearwater (2)
 18 Cave Swallow (2)
 17 Lesser Nighthawk (1)
 13 Common Greenshank (2)
 13 Black-tailed Gull (2)
 12 Gray-tailed Tattler

Dave Irons was the bellwether, no surprise, as four of his five are the top
four on the list.  Others who have four in the top ten are Russ Namitz,
Hendrik Herlyn, Tim Shelmerdine and me.  Naturally the next bird will be
something none of us thought of, say, Ivory Gull....

Others receiving at least five points OR votes from at least two people,
with their totals (and first-place votes), are:

11   Fork-tailed Flycatcher
11   YC Nightheron (1)
10   Temminck's Stint
9    N Sharptail Sparrow (1)
8    BB Cuckoo
8    Craveri's Murrelet
8    Wood Stork (1)
7    Yg Vireo (1)
6    Bean Goose (1)
6    Mississippi Kite
5    Chimney Swift (1)
5    Great BB Gull
4    Great-cr Fly
4    Cassin's Sparrow
4    Eurasian Kestrel
4    Cerulean Warbler
2  Field Sparrow  
2  Dusky Warbler

The remaining species receiving votes are:

4 Brown Shrike 
 3 Sulphur-b Flycatch
 3 Parkinson's Petrel
 2 Far Eastern Curlew
 2 Sky Lark  
 2 Northern Hobby  
 2 YB Magpie   
 2 Great-winged Petrel
 2 Am Oystercatcher
 1 Yellow-bellied Fly
 1 Dusky Thrush  
 1 Xantus's Hummer 
 1 Lesser Frigatebird
 1 Least Storm-Petrel
 1 Red-faced Warbler
 1 Henslow's Sparrow
1  Ivory Gull

Species that I put on my original list of possibles but which received no
votes for top 5 are:

 Common Pochard  
 Common Crane  
 Arctic Warbler  
 Eyebrowed Thrush  
 Bronzed Cowbird  
 Baird's Sparrow  
   
 Records currently in circulation in the OBRC (most will probably be
accepted) and which I therefore disqualified are:

 Magnificent Hummer
 Ashy Storm-petrel 
 BB Whistling-Duck 
 Alder Flycatcher  
 Black Rail


-- 
Alan Contreras
EUGENE, OREGON

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