Note: Rare bird reports and submissions, along with documentation and with photographs where available, are circulated to all committee members for written response in advance. During the subsequent conference call, and after all written responses have been circulated, each submission is discussed in detail. Recommendations are made by consensus.

A total of ten species were discussed by the BRC during its February 2015 conference call. The results published below list the records accepted to both to the main, and the provisional provincial lists.

A full account of all the decisions made by the committee, including records not accepted, will be published in an upcoming issue of our journal British Columbia Birds.

The following species were accepted to the Main Provincial List:

 

BROWN THRASHER (LOVEKIN ROCK PARKING LOT, LONG BEACH – 17^TH OCTOBER 2013)

BCBRC#2014–018 Adrian Dorst

 

ORCHARD ORIOLE 
(STUBBS ISLAND, TOFINO – 11^TH to 12^TH OCTOBER 2013)

BCBRC#2014–019 Adrian Dorst

 

EMPEROR GOOSE (WEST STEVESTON DIKE, RICHMOND – 19^TH to 20^TH OCTOBER, 2009, and REIFEL MIGRATORY BIRD SANCTUARY 25^TH OCTOBER, 2009)

BCBRC#2014–020 Hank Tseng, Peter Candido, and Marc Sole (25 October sighting)

The committee considered both records, and determined in all likelihood these two sighting were the same bird.

 


YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER 
(REVELSTOKE – 26 MAY, 2012)

BCBRC#2014–021 Harry van Oort

 

 

CRESTED AUKLET 
(CLELAND ISLAND, TOFINO  – 30^TH JULY TO 1^ST AUGUST, 2013)

BCBRC#2014–o22 Orin Lawson

 

BAR-TAILED GODWIT (MALE ALT. PLUMAGE) 
(JENSEN’S BAY, TOFINO – 6 TO 11 JUNE, 2010)

BCBRC#2014–023 Adrian Dorst

 

BAR-TAILED GODWIT (FEMALE) 
(LONG BEACH – 6 JULY, 2010)

BCBRC#2014–024 Adrian Dorst

  

GREAT SHEARWATER 
(51 22 9.2 N, 129 46 46.6 W– 05 AUGUST 2013)

BCBRC#2014–025 Paul Lehman, Owen Schmidt

 

LITTLE GULL 
(KUSKANAX CREEK, NAKUSP – 28 APRIL 2014)

BCBRC#2014–027 Gary Davidson

 

The following species was accepted to the Provisional Provincial List with a note that it is most likely an Hawaiian Petrel:

 

HAWAIIAN/GALAPAGOS PETREL (320 km SW of Estevan Point, or 340 km SW of Tofino, VANCOUVER ISLAND – 8 JULY 2014)

BCBRC#2014–026 Paul Lehman