Voting Comments
Record #: 2-A-04
Painted Bunting
1st Round: 5-2
2nd Round: 5-2
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1st Round |
2nd Round |
| 010-26-2007. Sturts -- Accept Good Description - with the field marks described, it would be hard to mix up with any other species. According to "The Birds of North America, No.398, 1999" P.Lowther, S.Lanyon, C.Thompson there are low numbers of casual out-of-range reports. California 17 records between 1962 and 1978 (range August-November) and Oregon 4, plus several records from other states. However, they do state that some of these reports could be caged birds. The Oregon Bird Records Committee has accepted 3 records Oct. 4, 1981 - June 2, 1963 (collected), and Dec. 1999 - they also have 3 other reports that were not accepted. Montana has one state record from Billings for Dec.1999. Unless someone has evidence that this was an escaped caged bird, I am voting to accept it as being of natural occurrence. |
01-30-2009.
I'm staying with my first round vote for the same reasons. |
| 010-27-2007. Dave Trochlell -- Accept Although documented by a very spare description, I'll support this record mostly on the strength that I can't imagine any other species of bird that could've been mistaken for a breeding plumaged male Painted Bunting, with its vividly contrasting bright colors. This may be the first documented occurrence of the species in Idaho, but I'm aware of at least two other undocumented reports from southern Idaho. With records of Painted Bunting in Washington, Oregon, Nevada, and Wyoming, I was expecting the species to show up in Idaho. |
01-31-2009.
I will stay with my past vote to accept this one. |
| 10/31/07. Cliff Weisse -- Accept The description could be of no other species and the timing seems OK (OR has a 2 June record of a breeding male). |
1/28/09.
I was swayed by the lack of any description of the bird's condition. For a first state record I think we should cover all the bases so at least a minimal description of the condition of the plumage, etc would be helpful and the observers apparently did not consider the possibility of captive origin. |
| 11-11-2007. chuck trost -- Accept A male painted bunting is hard to confuse with anything else. Colors well described and carefully observed. |
02-02-2009.
The colors are hard to confuse with anything else. I am a bit bothered about its wild status, but the date is OK for a wandering migrant. |
| 11-11-2007. Carlisle -- Accept with some reluctance due to lack of photo evidence and the description of "yellow back & green wings", I think this species (especially males) are really difficult to misidentify and the blue head, red eye-ring, and red breast are diagnostic |
2-3-09.
no change |
| 1/28/08. Charles Swift -- Reject, natural occurrence questionable This is a convincing report of a carefully documented bird. The date is reasonable for a wayward spring migrant and the species often ends of at feeders in these types of situations. The question of origin will need to be discussed although I believe this could well be a wild bird. |
2/21/09.
I think this could well be a wild bird but will vote reject until we have further discussion of provenance (which has not happened yet). I'm also not convinced that a reject should be the default in these cases but again this needs to be discussed further. |
| 02/11/2008. Darren Clark -- Reject, specific identification not established I may be able to be convinced to change my vote in the 2nd round, but I wish there was some photographic evidence of this bird. I know Painted Buntings are kept in captivity occasionally and I would be interested in the condition of this bird. |
02-06-2009.
There are other accepted records of Painted Buntings in other states at similar times. I feel comfortable changing my vote to accept. |