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From: Les Chibana <[[email protected]]>
Subject: Re: [SBB] Grackle at Palo Alto Baylands?
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:41:44 -0700
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Deb Bartens, the Chief Naturalist at the PA Baylands reported a male 
Great-tailed
Grackle right next to the Nature Center on 5/16/02. I think there was 
another SCL
sighting within a few days of that date a bit further south, or maybe 
one not much
further north in SM. (Oh no! County codes! See below.) They don't seem 
to stay
very long at the Baylands... yet.

There have been many more records of Great-tailed Grackle in Central 
CA, from
the coast through the Central Valley, than any of the other grackle 
species.
Breeding activity has even been documented in scattered areas. This 
species
is the most likely of the grackles to be seen in CA, but there have 
been a few
Common Grackle sightings, most recently in SOL on 10/10/04. I'm not 
sure if
this sighting has been confirmed; photos (film) were taken. BTW, Common
Grackle is a review species for California (see below).

Les Chibana

P.S. Did I raise your blood pressure with the acronym/codes?

SCL = CBRC county code for Santa Clara County
SM = CBRC county code for San Mateo County
CA = Postal code for California
SOL = No, not what you're thinking, the code for Solano County
BTW = "By the way", email shorthand
CBRC = California Bird Records Committee, part of the WFO
WFO = Western Field Ornithologists, check our their very useful website 
for the
official CA bird list (if you don't mind an authority figure in your 
birding):
       <http://www.wfo-cbrc.org/cbrc/ca_list.html>
The review list of CA birds, i.e., rarities that need documentation in 
order to be
considered by the committee for acceptance of the sighting:
       <http://www.wfo-cbrc.org/cbrc/review.html>
And their usage of county codes:
       <http://www.wfo-cbrc.org/cbrc/counties.html>

And I didn't even use 4-letter codes for the bird names!

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