Records of the Tule Wren and Black-Footed Albatross in Oregon
Records of the Tule Wren and Black-footed Albatross in Oregon.
-Gabrielson and Jewett (Birds of Oregon, 1940, p. 458) state that there is only one known set of eggs of the Tule Wren taken in Oregon and that (p. 80) there are only a few sight records of the Black-footed Alhatross for the State. It may be added that on June 8, 1940, four occupied nests of the Tule Wren (Telmatodytes palustis paludicola) were found in a marsh on Beaver Creek, Lincoln County, only one-half mile back from the ocean. The first nest had three fresh eggs, the next, five, the third, six young birds half feathered out, and the last, six badly formed eggs. All the occupied nests were twice as long as broad and all empty ones were globular. The nests were anywhere from six inches to three feet above the ground. On July 28, 1940, the writer obtained a female Black-footed Albatross (Diomedea nigripes) on the beach at Otter Rock. The gulls and sand fleas had started to work on it but I was able to prepare a study skin which was sent to Mr. Jewett for his collection.
H. H. Hann
Otter Rock, Oregon, July 29, 1940
