Eurasian Dotterel

Table

Eurasian Dotterel – Accepted
1. 12–20 Sep 1974	HY	Southeast Farallon I. SF	1974-082	3	ph., Henderson (1979), Roberson (1980)
2. 06–09 Sep 1986	HY	Pt. Reyes MRN	1986-365	12	Fig. 212, ph., AB 41:42, 139, WB 17:95
3. 10–13 Sep 1988	HY	Pt. Reyes MRN	1988-170	13	ph., AB 43:27
4. 15 Sep 1989	HY	Southeast Farallon I. SF	1989-166	15	Fig. 115, ph., AB 44:30
5-6. 09–12 Sep 1992	HY & unk.	Lake Talawa DN	1992-249	21	ph., AB 47:169, two of three reported
7. 17 Oct–21 Nov 1992		Pt. Reyes MRN	1992-272	18	ph., video
8. 22 Aug 2000	HY	Southeast Farallon I. SF	2001-026	26
9. 22–23 Jan 2001		vic. Calipatria IMP	2001-071	27	ph.
Eurasian Dotterel – Not Accepted
10 Aug 2002		Goleta SBA	2002-211	29
Eurasian Dotterel – Not Submitted
08-12 Sep 1992		Lake Talawa DN			AB 47:144, Harris (2006), see table entries 5-6

Figures

Figure 115. Until a January 2001 record from the Imperial Valley, all of California’s records of the Eurasian Dotterel involved fall vagrants, including this first-year bird photographed on 15 September 1989 on Southeast Farallon Island. Interestingly, six of the state’s nine accepted dotterel records come from this location or nearby Pt. Reyes, Marin County (1989-166; Tim Schantz).

Figure 212. This first-fall Eurasian Dotterel, photographed on 7 September 1986 at Pt. Reyes, Marin County, ranks among the most handsome plovers ever to have reached California (1986-365; Peter LaTourrette).

Eurasian Dotterel

EURASIAN DOTTEREL Charadrius morinellus Linnaeus, 1758

Accepted: 9 (90%)	Treated in Appendix H: no
Not accepted: 1	CBRC review: all records
Not submitted/reviewed: 1	Large color image: see Figures

This plover breeds across most of northern Eurasia, from the northern United Kingdom and Scandinavia east across northern Siberia. The species also breeds in central Eurasia and very locally in southern Europe. In Alaska this is a very rare spring migrant in the west and a casual spring migrant in the north, with rare and local breeding in these areas. The winter range forms a narrow band that extends across northern Africa and the Middle East (Wiersma 1996). The species is a casual fall vagrant on the western Aleutian Islands (Kessel and Gibson 1978). Other extralimital records come from the Commander and Kuril Islands, Sakhalin, Hawaii, and Bermuda (Amos 1991). Closer to California, fall vagrants have reached Washington three times and Oregon once, and a first-winter bird present from 30 January to 1 March 1998 in northwestern Baja California furnished the first winter record for the New World.

California’s first Eurasian Dotterel was recorded from 12 to 20 September 1974 on Southeast Farallon Island (Henderson 1979). This occurrence, like most that have followed, involved a first-fall bird on the coast during the period of 22 August–20 September. A later migrant (probably molting into formative plumage) lingered from 17 October to 21 November 1992 at Pt. Reyes, Marin County. Even more exceptional was a wintering bird photographed 22–23 January 2001 northeast of Calipatria, Imperial County.