Duplicates
The Loon, journal of the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
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MOURC Proceedings Archive - Frigatebirds |
Accepted Duplicates | |
| This is the 1981 to present Records Committee Proceedings archive for The Loon, journal of the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union. The last 2 years are available to MOU members. |
| Families |
| Species: Frigatebirds |
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[Fregata frigatebird] |
Magnificent Frigatebird |
| Magnificent Frigatebird (A) (Fregata magnificens) | Start Date 0000-00-00 | ||||||||
| Ref | First | Last | Location | County | 2 | 3 | Comment | Status | |
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| 1 | 90:83 | 1988-10-01 | Acacia Park Cemetery | Dakota | (as record #1988-001, vote 6–1). Adult, male. This is the first of a series of Fregata sp. records to be reviewed. Originally, this record was unanimously accepted as a Fregata then with a majority vote as a Magnificent Frigatebird (The Loon 61:11, 62:12). Subsequently, the record was reconsidered and reclassified as Fregata sp. (it was then cited as record #2006099; vote: as Magnificent Frigatebird 3–7, Accepted as Fregata sp. 10–0). (The Loon 61:11). The arguments for this reclassification were based upon the occurrence of a single sighting of a seriously injured parasitized Great Frigatebird (F. minor) in Oklahoma on 11 November 1975 (Bulletin of the Oklahoma Ornithological Society June 1977) and upon two inland sightings of Lesser Frigatebirds (F. ariel) in Wyoming (11 July 2003) and Michigan (11 September 2005). After discussion at two MOURC meetings on 3 December 2017 and 19 August 2018, the Committee decided to again reconsider the record due to new information in the literature not previously available when the record was re-examined in 2006. Finally, after its second reconsideration, the record was Accepted. Reasons for acceptance were focused on the original, contemporaneous field notes; the study of the path of Hurricane Gilbert and its unprecedented plethora of fallout of frigatebirds (none was identified as Great Frigatebirds) records in the Midwest; and the new illustrations of frigatebirds in the literature. All ages and sexes of Lesser Frigatebird should have shown white in the plumage which the field notes of this record specifically state was absent. | Accepted | |||
| 2 | 80:5 | 2007-09-02 | along north shore of Spirit Lake | Jackson | (record #2007-056, vote 10–0). Excellent photographs and thorough written documentation ruled out other frigatebird species. First state record, following three records of Fregata sp. The Loon 80:106–107 | Accepted | |||
| Two fall records (1988, 2007). Three additional fall records of Fregata sp. | |||||||||
| The information in the above table comes from several different sources. The count in column 1 indicates which of the sources is considered the primary source. | ||
| 'Accepted' MOURC entries from The MOURC Proceedings | ||
| 'Not Accepted' or 'Rejected' MOURC entry from The MOURC Proceedings | ||
| Accepted MOU records assembled by David Cahlander | ||
| Sighting records for () | ||
| Avian information from the occurrence maps, in dark red, assembled by Robert Janssen. Seasonal report for the species/season published in The Loon or The Flicker has been added. | ||
| Information from The Loon index assembled by Anthony Hertzel and David Cahlander | ||