Excellent find, Jane, thank you very much!! I’ve added a screen shot from that 1995 Kingbird page to the dropbox link below.
It would be great to figure out a way to enter these sightings into eBird as historical Cayuga Lake Basin records…all original observers of both historical sightings are (sadly) deceased (McIlroy, et. al., and Prentiss). Sincerely, Chris T-H On Dec 6, 2022, at 2:13 PM, Jane Graves <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: "Kingbird,v45n3 1995 p193. Region 3 "Harlequin Duck: one Union Springs 24 Mar (BP,NYSARC). Jane Graves Sent from my iPad On Dec 6, 2022, at 11:25 AM, Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I’m still digging, but here’s a historical Harlequin Duck sighting from 1968, thanks to Matt Medler for this! https://www.dropbox.com/sh/n8jhxfva0peosb5/AAAFh4tEd1QTCI0ns7g4PkWka?dl=0 Dorothy McIlroy Sighting Notecard: “Harlequin Duck - Histrionicus histrionicus - Accidental - Female 5/7-9/68 [May 7-9, 1968] Sheldrake, Cay L. [Cayuga Lake] (D. McIlroy, M. Shephard, F. Scheider) Verification report on file.” 1968 Kingbird, Volume 18, Number 3, Region 3: “HARLEQUIN DUCK: female, May 7-9 Sheldrake Pt Cay L (DM and others; verification report on file), first record for Region.” Still trying to locate information about Bard Prentiss’s sighting from the Factory Street pond (aka “Harlequin Pond”) in Union Springs from sometime in the mid-1990s. If anyone has the original email, please forward to me. Sincerely, Chris T-H -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes — Field Applications Engineer K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell Lab of Ornithology Cornell University, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA Work: +1 607-254-2418 Mobile: +1 607-351-5740 FAX: +1 607-254-1132 https://bioacoustics.cornell.edu<https://bioacoustics.cornell.edu/> -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes — Field Applications Engineer K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell Lab of Ornithology Cornell University, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA Work: +1 607-254-2418 Mobile: +1 607-351-5740 FAX: +1 607-254-1132 https://bioacoustics.cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
