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Discrepancies Over Published Locations Have Been Resolved
Discrepancies Over Published Locations Have Been Resolved
Date Prov /
Species
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Wandering Albatross FL
[prior to 1884? PCD]
Yellow-nosed Albatross
[originally recorded as "Pink-footed NB
19130801
Albatross" which was lumped with ME
Yellow-nosed by the AOU in 1944. PCD]
198006XX
Black-browed Albatross RI
("early June")
Black-browed Albatross 19800715 NL
Yellow-nosed Albatross 19801024 NH
MA
[state
Albatross species
19820502 designation
["thought to be Black-browed"]
may be
equivocal]
Yellow-nosed Albatross 19820703 FL
Black-browed Albatross 19830715 NS
PM
Black-browed Albatross 19850625 [St. Pierre &
Miquelon]
Albatross species 19851222 NC
Black-browed Albatross 19860721 NS
Yellow-nosed Albatross 19870805 NS
1988 - 2008
["within the last 20 years" - D.
Black-browed Albatross Seeler pers. comm. 2008] PE
Summer season (01 Jun - 15
Aug)
Albatross species
19890101 DE
[reported as Yellow-nosed]
Tampa Bay 1
Ward's Bank, mouth of the St. Johns River, twenty miles south of Jacksonville, Duval
1
County
near mouth of Moisie River on the north shore of the St. Lawrence Gulf 1 imm
taken near Machias Seal Island, Machias Bay, Washington County [ME]
off Grand Manan Island; near the mouth of the Bay of Fundy [NB] 1 adult
[very likely occurred in both ME and NB waters - see Murphy (1922)]
unknown 1
among sedges by a brook, about 40 miles inland at East Freyburg, Oxford County 1 adult
Cod Ledges
1
Casco Bay, Cumberland County [stated by Palmer]
off Vauclin 1
about 20 miles off New Smyrna Beach [18 miles se of Turtle Mound], Brevard County 1 adult
3 km south of Jones Beach State Park, Long Island, Nassau County 1 adult
Gulf of St. Lawrence 5 [!]
South Padre Island jetties, Padre Island National Seashore, Cameron County
[previous discrepancies over published locations have been resolved (M Lockwood 1
pers. comm. 2008); the above information is correct; Nueces County is incorrect. PCD]
seen from shore at Bird Island in Buzzard's Bay, Marion County 2 prob sub-adults
on the water seen from the "Bluenose" ferry between Bar Harbor, ME, and Yarmouth,
1
NS
flying across the Belt Parkway at Gravesend Bay at the Narrows, Brooklyn, NY 1
Hudson Canyon 1
about 55 mi. from North Sydney, NS, along the ferry route to Argentia, NL 1 near adult
from a party fishing boat, 5 mi offshore of Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey 1 adult
seen from the ferry between Hyannis and Nantucket, in Nantucket Sound 1 subadult
inshore of the Isle of Shoals, Rockingham County, aboard the M/V Atlantic Queen 1
20 miles off Rye, NH at location called "Old Scantum" aboard M/V Atlantic Queen
1
[Finch: "12 miles east of Hampton"]
1 adult or near-
70 km west of Yarmouth, observed from the Bluenose ferry
adult
Cox's Ledge, a submarine plateau and fishing ground ca. 65 km (40 mi) eastsoutheast
1 subadult
of Montauk Point, LI, NY, and partly in MA and partly in Rl waters
found 4 mi west of Port Mansfield, South Padre Island, Willacy County 1 adult
aboard an oil production platform in the Gulf of Mexico 75 mi. S 25ºE of Galveston, Tex 1
1
37 mi SE of Oregon Inlet
unknown 1
Belmar 1
Two miles west of Seal Island 1
Seal Island 1
off South Beach from Morris Island, Chatham, Barnstable County 1 imm
Conception Island 1
44 Jacuith Road, Hancock 2
off Exuma 1
seen near Matinicus Rock in outer Penobscot Bay, Criehaven Township, Knox County 1 adult
Robbins Rest, 7 km east of Fire Island Lighthouse, Fire Island National Seashore, Long
1 adult
Island, Suffolk County
in flight and on the water (20-30 ft away) at Assateague Island, National Seashore,
1
Berlin, Worcester County
5/21: Garden State Parkway, south of Shellbay Landing, Cape May Courthouse, Cape
May County 1 adult
5/23: Delaware Bay Shore, Reeds Beach and Highs Beach, Goshen, Cape May County
Manasquan Inlet, Ocean County 1
over the woods and shoreline at South Kingston, Trustom Pond National Wildlife
1
Refuge, Washington Co., along RI's south coast
Tom Nevers Head, on the extreme southeastern corner of Nantucket Island, Dukes
1 adult
County
29 km southeast of Fire Island Inlet 1 unaged
seen from a moving automobile as the bird crossed the 1-95 bridge over the Housatonic
1
River between the towns of Stratford and Milford
Green Hill 1
about 50m east of Port Isabel, off South Padre Island; Cameron County 1 adult
flying eastward past the s. end of South Monomoy Island, Chatham, Barnstable County 1
Atlantic Ocean 26.8 miles ESE of Ocean City Inlet, 3 miles NE of "Jackspot." 1
between Plaice Cove and Little Boars Head Beach, Hampton, Rockingham County 1 adult
over the Royal River Boat Yard, from Hiway 295, Yarmouth, Cumberland County 1 adult
specimen
originally deposited in the Séminaire de Québec
now held at the Musée de la civilisation
MCQ #1995.2760
specimen
specimen
[hypothetical per Austin; accidental per Peters and Burleigh]
specimen
Portland Society of Natural History
[collection dispersed; probably no longer extant PCD]
sight report
feather specimen
specimen
collection???
#???
sight record
sight record
sketch
Accepted by ME-BRC
photograph
[recognized by NYSARC - see Andrle 1996]
sight report[s]
sight record
sketch
Accepted by
ME-BRC
sight report
hypothetical
[per Leck]
sight record
photograph
Accepted by LBRC
sight record
sight record
sight record
sight reports
sketch
Accepted by MARC
sight record
[never submitted to NYSARC for review, contra Finnegan]
sight record
sight record
[Finnegan reported that a specimen exists, but this is not
correct (M. Lockwood pers. comm. 2008) PCD]
Accepted by TBRC
sight record
Not reviewed by MARC
sight reports
hypothetical
[per Leck]
sight report
sight report
sight report
["questionable" per Veit"]
sight record
Accepted by NCBRC
sight report
sight report
["questionable" per Veit"]
sight report
[not submitted to NYSARC]
sight report
sight report
sight report
sight report
Accepted by MARC
sight report
[Mlodinow reports this as rejected, but this sighting was not
reviewed by FOSRC per Kratter (pers. comm. 2008). PCD]
sight report
published in Leck
[Mlodinow says this was rejected by the NJBRC; however, this
sight report predated the NJBRC who subsequently
considered it to be undocumented and not actionable [Larson
(pers. comm. 2008).] PCD]
photograph
Accepted by MD/DCRC
sight record
sight record
sight report
single observer sighting - notes and sketches
considered hypothetical by Amos
sight record
Accepted by MARC
sight record
Accepted by MARC as genus only
Sight report
Sight report
sight record
(post Hurricane Belle)
Accepted by NYSARC
sight record
sight record
specimen
U.T. Pan American collection (no specimen #)
Accepted by TBRC
sight report
Not Accepted by NCBRC
sight report
[Not reviewed by TRBC]
sight report
Not Accepted by NCBRC
sight report
Not Accepted by NCBRC
sight record
[currently considered hypothetical by ME-BRC; yet to be
reviewed]
sight report
Not Accepted by NCBRC
sight report
sight report
sight report
sight record
photograph
sight record
Accepted by VARCOM
VARCOM status: previously "Hypothetical" (Kain) - only due to
lack of specimen or photo for 1st state record; now "accepted"
(Cat 2) per Rottenborn and Brinkley
MD/DCRC status: not yet reviewed - documentation just
located (P Davis, pers. comm. 2008)
sight report
sight record
hypothetical - per Godfrey]
sight report
sight record
hypothetical - per VARC; only due to no specimen or photo for
1st state record
sight record
photograph
sight record
sight report
unpublished anectodal
hypothetical (Etcheberry pers. comm. 2008)
sight report
Not Accepted by NCBRC
sight report
sight record
hypothetical
sight report
sketches
[89th CBC - Cape Henlopen-Prime Hook, DE; not published in
CBC results [in AB 43(4):770-771. PCD]
Not Accepted by DRBC
sight report
sight report
photograph
sight record
previously accepted but reversed in 2008 to "Not Accepted" by
NJBRC
sight record
specimen
photographs
("two slightly distant black-and-white shots)
sight record
videotaped
Accepted by MARC as Albatross species
Accepted by NYSARC as genus
sight record
sight report
Not Accepted by TBRC
sight report
Not Accepted by NYSARC
sight report
Accepted as Diomedea species
sight report
Not Accepted by NCBRC
specimen
Accepted by TBRC
sight record
considered to be unsubtantiated by White
Not Accepted by NHBRC
sight record
considered to be unsubtantiated by White
sight report
Not Accepted by NYSARC
sight report
Accepted by FOSRC as genus only
photograph
Accepted-Cat 1
video and photos
ME-BRC status: in circulation
photograph
Accepted by NCBRC
photograph
Accepted by FOSRC
photograph
Accepted by MARC
photograph
[never submitted to NYSARC]
sight record
sketches
Not Accepted by MD/DCRC
photographed
Accepted by NJBRC
Sight report
sight report
Rejected by RIBRC
sight report
Not Accepted by MARC
sight report
sight report
submitted to NSBRC
sight report
"possible" sighting
photographed
Accepted by
ME-BRC
recent report