Photograph by Rene Wendell || State list additions: Common Greenshank. State list removals: Thayer’s Gull, Monk Parakeet. The state list stands at 501. Review list additions: Tundra Swan, Ruff. Outgoing members of 2017: Mark Faherty, Scott Surner. Incoming members of 2017: David Sibley, Larry Therrien.
On December 8, 2014, Stan Deutsch photographed an odd shorebird in Gloucester and uploaded the photo to his Flickr site. The photograph remained unidentified for 2.5 years until Tim Spahr and Brian Harris discovered the image, which most certainly showed Common Greenshank! Stan Deutsch confirms that he indeed took the photograph in Gloucester in December […]