Prairie Provinces

with its 10,000th bird banded since the station opened in 2001; the celebrity bird was a hatch-year Magnolia Warbler, an appropriate "southeast Yukon specialty" (TMK).Cape May Warblers seem to have a small foothold at Albert Creek; 2 males were on territories there 3Jun (ph.GR, TT); and single males were handed at the station 25 & 27 Jul (TMK).A male Bay-breasted Warbler singing at Congdon Cr. campground, Kluane L. 21 Jun (PS) established the Yukon's westernmost record.A first-year male BLackand-white Warbler, well w. of its range, was seen at Albert Cr., se.Yukon 3Jun (GR, TT).An imm American Redstart, a rare breeder in sw.Yukon, was reported from Haines Junction 18 Jul (DH).IvlacGillivray's Warbler was found to be common in deciduous shrubs along the Haines Rd. from Dezadeash L. s. to the British Columbia border 22-26 Jun (CE, PS); elsewhere in s.Yukon, a pair carrying food was observed just w. of Rancheria Falls 2 Jul (HG).An extralimital male Western Tanager singing on territory in Whitehorse, Yukon 16-17 Jun managed to find a good patch of habitat but not likely a mate (ph.CE).A male Spotted Towhee, Nunavut's first, was a surprising find at Arviat 7-8 Jun (ph.LS).Sooty Fox Sparrow was confirmed breeding xceptionally heavy rains in June and , the first half of July brought widespread, record-breaking floods across the southern third of the Region.Riparian species such as Spotted Sandpiper, Belted Kingfisher, and Bank Swallow probably suffered heavy nesting losses, and many Western Grebe and Franklin's Gull colonies were disrupted or displaced by high lake levels.The impact on other colonial waterbirds is difficult to assess because of the remote locations of major colonies.Exceptional numbers of American White Pelicans benefiting from floodwater across s.Manitoha and s.Saskatchewan may have been displaced from northern lakes or from abandoned colonies in the Northern Great Plains.Impending flooding of Lake Diefenbaker, Saskatchewan led to a heroic Piping Plover captive-rearing effort coordinated by the Saskatchewan Watershed Authority.With 113 nests threatened by inundation, 260 eggs were collected and over 100 young were eventually released at Chaplin Lake.Word on grassland sparrows was mixed but was generally had in Saskatchewan.Baird's Sparrow continued to decline in southwestern Manitoba, but Grasshopper Sparrow numbers were above average there and in southern Alberta.Moisture-loving Le Conte's Sparrows appeared to thrive, as did BLack Terns and most dabbling ducks.Bobolinks in the Yukon with the observations of 5 ads., one feeding 2 juvs.at treeline along the Haines Rd., just n. of the British Columbia border 24-26 Jun (ph.CE, PS).Three Song Sparrows were also noted along the Yukon section of the Haines Rd. 26Jun (PS).Those in search of Smith's Longspur on its breeding grounds need look no farther than Tombstone Territorial Park, cen.Yukon; this year a singing male was noted at km 98 Dempster Hv•.. 13 Jun (HG), and one was seen at the same spot again 2 Jul (RE).Late but noteworthy was the report of a one-day count of about 2000 Snow Buntings, including one flock of at least 1000 birds, along the Alaska Hv•.. between Haines Junction and Beaver Creek, sw.Yukon 24 Mar (JW).Herschel Islands reputation as n.Yukong top rarity hotspot was further enshrined by the territory's first McKay's Bunting, a well-studied male, which looked right at home in the driftwood around Pauline Cove 16-28 Jul and possibly later (ph.LJM, ph.CE et al.).A singing Western Meadowlark was seen near Ft.Liard, NWT 10 Jun (vt.ph.GK, TH, LAr).A silent and skittish meadowLark, beyond its range regardless of species, was seen at Akimiski I., Nunavut 2 Jun (KA, LN); Easterns seem to stray shorter distances out of range than Westerns, which have been recorded in Siberia.A prolific White Spruce cone crop provided food for an abundant and widespread population of White-winged Crossbills in se.Yukon and sw.

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