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Vol. 48 No. 2 (2017)

FIRST RECORD OF THE EASTERN PHOEBE BREEDING IN ALASKA: EXTRALIMITAL BY 2000 KM

DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21199/WB48.2.5
Submitted
September 19, 2025
Published
April 1, 2017

Abstract

The Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) nests across much of North America east of the Rocky Mountains (Sinclair et al. 2003, Van Damme 2010, Weeks 2011). Although Alberta represents the western extreme of the species’ regular breeding distribution, extralimital nesting occasionally occurs west to southeastern Yukon Territory and northeastern British Columbia (Sinclair et al. 2003, Van Damme 2010). In Alaska, the Eastern Phoebe is a casual visitor with no previous nesting records (see Gibson and Withrow 2015; Table 1). Here we document the first record of the Eastern Phoebe nesting in the state of Alaska, the westernmost breeding record for the species and extralimital by 2000 km.

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