If I'm not mistaken, both these records (and potentially the Tundra Bean-Goose) are first records for the lower 48 as well!

William Rockey
--- In [email protected], Kimball Garrett <kgarrett@...> wrote:
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> The California Bird Records Committee has accepted the record (#2013-192) of a Marsh Sandpiper, Tringa stagnatilis, near Mecca, Riverside Co. 26 Oct 2013, and the record (#2013-195) of a Common Swift, Apus apus, near Desert Center, Riverside Co. 30 Oct 2013. These two additions bring the California checklist to 657 species (646 naturally-occurring plus 11 introduced). CBRC Chair and webmaster Joseph Morlan has updated the web site to reflect these changes:
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> http://www.californiabirds.org/list.html
> Note that Marsh Sandpiper is placed on the checklist immediately after Lesser Yellowlegs; Common Swift is placed immediately after Vaux's Swift. Both are added to the CBRC review list as well.
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> Another potential new California record is currently in circulation (record #2013-181 of a Tundra Bean-Goose, Anser serrirostris, at Unit 1 of the Salton Sea NWR, Imperial Co. 19 Oct 2013); if this record is accepted as Tundra Bean-Goose, the current checklist taxon "Taiga/Tundra Bean-Goose, Anser fabalis/serrirostris, will be removed, so there will be no net gain in the species total.
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> Kimball L. Garrett
> "CBRC Press Secretary"
> Ornithology Collections Manager
> Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
> 900 Exposition Blvd.
> Los Angeles, CA 90007 USA
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> http://www.nhm.org/site/research-collections/ornithology
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