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Vol. 44 No. 3 (2013)

A WINTER RECORD OF A LITTLE BUNTING FROM INTERIOR OREGON

DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21199/WB44.3.6
Submitted
November 23, 2025
Published
July 1, 2013

Abstract

On 28 January 2013 we were birding in central Wallowa County, extreme northeastern Oregon. Late in the afternoon we entered the town of Joseph in order to check the town’s feeders a second time that day. There was 3-4 inches of snow on the ground and birds were concentrated. As we checked one feeder from the car, Contreras noticed a sparrow-like bird in a tree and was astonished to see a Little Bunting (Emberiza pusilla), a species he had seen only once before, at Gambell, Alaska. Tumer agreed with the identification and got out of the car and obtained several diagnostic photos, the best of which is Figure 1.

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