OBRC Report Form

Reporting Observer

Original finder's name and address if known:

Other observers' names and addresses:

Report Details

Species,select one:

<select from list> American Avocet American Oystercatcher American White Pelican (pre 1994) Ancient Murrelet Anhinga Arctic Tern (post 1990) Ash-throated Flycatcher Atlantic Puffin Audubon's Shearwater Bachman's Sparrow Baird's Sparrow Band-rumped Storm-Petrel Band-tailed Pigeon Barn Owl Barrow's Goldeneye Bell's Vireo Bewick's Wren Bicknell's Thrush Black-capped Petrel Black-crowned Night-Heron Black Rail Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Black-billed Magpie Black-capped Vireo Black-chinned Hummingbird Black Guillemot Black-headed Grosbeak Black-headed Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Black-necked Stilt Black Skimmer Black-tailed Godwit Black-throated Gray Warbler Black-throated Sparrow Black Vulture Blue Grosbeak Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Blue-winged Warbler Brambling Brewer's Sparrow Broad-billed Hummingbird Brown Pelican Bullock's Oriole Burrowing Owl California Gull Cackling Goose Cattle Egret Carolina Chickadee Carolina Wren Cassin's Finch Cassin's Kingbird Cassin's Sparrow Cave Swallow Chestnut-collared Longspur Chuck-will's-widow Cinnamon Teal Clark's Nutcracker Common Eider Common Ground Dove Common Moorhen Common Poorwill Crested Caracara Curlew Sandpiper Dickcissel Dovekie Dusky Flycatcher Eared Grebe Eastern Screech-Owl Eastern Towhee Eskimo Curlew Eurasian Blackbird Eurasian Collared-Dove Eurasian Jackdaw Eurasian Tree Sparrow Eurasian Wigeon Ferruginous Hawk Fish Crow Fieldfare Field Sparrow Fork-tailed Flycatcher Fulvous Whistling-Duck Garganey Glossy Ibis Golden-crowned Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch Gray Flycatcher Great Cormorant Great Egret Greater Prairie-Chicken Greater Shearwater Greater White-fronted Goose (pre 1998) Great-tailed Grackle Green Heron Green-tailed Towhee Green Violet-ear Groove-billed Ani Gyrfalcon (pre 1994) Harlequin Duck Harris's Sparrow Heermann's Gull Henslow's Sparrow Hermit Warbler Hooded Oriole Hooded Warbler House Finch Inca Dove Ivory Gull Kentucky Warbler Kirtland's Warbler Lark Bunting Lark Sparrow Laughing Gull Lazuli Bunting Leach's Storm-Petrel Least Bittern Least Tern Lesser Black-backed Gull Lesser Goldfinch Lesser Nighthawk Lewis's Woodpecker Little Blue Heron Little Stint Loggerhead Shrike Long-billed Curlew Long-billed Dowitcher (pre 1981) Long-billed Murrelet Long-tailed Jaeger MacGillivray's Warbler Magnificent Frigatebird Manx Shearwater McCown's Longspur Mew Gull Mississippi Kite Mongolian Plover Mountain Bluebird Mute Swan Neotropic Cormorant Northern Cardinal Northern Fulmar Northern Gannet Northern Wheatear Orchard Oriole Pacific Loon Painted Bunting Painted Redstart Phainopepla Piping Plover Plumbeous Vireo Pomarine Jaeger Prairie Falcon Prairie Warbler Prothonotary Warbler Purple Gallinule Purple Sandpiper Razorbill Red-bellied Woodpecker Rock Wren Ross's Goose Ross's Gull Royal Tern Ruff Rufous Hummingbird Sage Thrasher Sandwich Tern Say's Phoebe Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Scott's Oriole Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Siberian Rubythroat Slaty-backed Gull Slender-billed Curlew Smew Smith's Longspur Snowy Egret Snowy Plover Sooty Tern Spotted Towhee Sprague's Pipit Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher Summer Tanager Swainson's Hawk Swainson's Warbler Swallow-tailed Kite Thick-billed Murre Tricolored Heron Townsend's Solitaire Townsend's Warbler Tropical/Couch's Kingbird Tufted Duck Varied Bunting Virginia's Warbler Varied Thrush Variegated Flycatcher Vermilion Flycatcher Wandering Tattler Western Grebe Western Kingbird Western Sandpiper Western Tanager Western Wood-Pewee White-eyed Vireo White-collared Swift White-faced Ibis White Ibis White-winged Dove White-winged Tern Whooping Crane Willow Flycatcher Willow Ptarmigan Willet Wilson's Plover Wilson's Storm-Petrel Wood Stork Violet-green Swallow Yellow-billed Loon Virginia's Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-throated Warbler

or other species not on list:

Number:

Age:

Sex:

<select from list> male female both don't know

Date you saw it using this format: 25 January 2010

Time of day seen:

Duration of observation (give times):

First and last dates bird(s) known to be in area:

Exact location seen:

GPS if available:

Habitat:

Weather conditions:

Kind of lighting on bird:

Observer's distance from bird:

Optics used:

Photographs taken?

Video taken?

Illustration made?

Date this report written (e.g. 25 January 2010):

General Observations

1) Circumstances of the observation:

2) Description. Include only what was observed in the field. Describe entire bird, include all diagnostic field marks: this is the most important section. The box below expands to give you lots of space to write a detailed report.

3) How were similar species eliminated? Very important: List other similar birds you considered in your identification and describe why your bird wasn’t any of these.

4) Experience with claimed species:

5) Field guides/references consulted:

6) Any additional commentary/analysis:

Description made from:

Field notes

Notes made after observation

Memory

After you hit the Submit Report button, the report is sent directly to the OBRC. Please verify your information is correct before submiting your report. Notice Reporting Observer’s Name and Email are required.