1st Round Voting Comments-13-B-88

1^st Round Voting Comments

Record #: 13-B-88

Red-throated Loon

1st Round: 6-1
2nd Round: 7-0
ACCEPT

1^st Round (6 Accept, 1 Reject)	2^nd Round (7 Accept, 0 Reject)
Shirley Sturts -- Accept Well Described - careful and competent observer	07-05-2007. Sturts -- Accept I'm staying with my first vote for the same reasons.
Chuck Trost -- Accept Good description, remarkable record because of date.	07-14-2007. chuck trost -- Accept Again, the date seems wrong, but the description seems right.
Cliff Weisse -- Accept Description matches adult RT Loon in alternate plumage.	7/8/07. Cliff Weisse -- Accept Written description is brief but includes diagnostic field marks including black and white stripes on the nape which is shown by no other loon. The date is unusual but I see no reason to suspect that this individual is of questionable provenance.
Dave Trochlell -- Accept I accept this as a record on the strength of P. Hughs's good description.	07-12-2007. Dave Trochlell -- Accept I still support this record.
Carlisle -- Accept Critical field marks noted.	7-10-07. Carlisle -- Accept description matches breeding-plumaged RT Loon
Dumroese -- Reject, specific identification not established This record, along with 7-B-87, just makes me feel uneasy. I guess I'm having a hard time with breeding plumaged RTLO in Idaho in June on 2 consecutive years. It also makes me nervous that a report written 6 years later can be so precise about weather 5 days before the sighting. And, the first report doesn't mention a gray neck but the second report does...	8 July 2007. Hardy -- Accept Alternate plumaged birds are straightforward to identify; this report provides sufficient description for identification of RTLO in spite of the unusual June sighting date.
Charles Swift -- Accept As with previous record, minimal description but sufficient for this species in breeding plumage.	7/29/07. Charles Swift -- Accept This could only be a breeding plumage Red-throated Loon so I again vote to accept. (The only concern is that we don't know if the report was prepared from field notes but that is partly a limitation of the form.)