Golden-winged Warbler

Table

Golden-winged Warbler – Accepted
1. 23–24 Oct 1960	HY	Montecito SBA	1984-069	9	ph., SBMNH 4326
2. 26 May 1963		Southeast Farallon I. SF	1987-249	14	ph., MVZ 160114
3. 05 Jun 1972		Deep Springs INY	1972-056	1
4. 05 Jul 1972	SY	Southeast Farallon I. SF	1984-020	9	CAS 68648
5. 18 Dec 1972		Claremont LA	1990-206	15	ph., PC (not cataloged); found dead
6. 20–21 May 1973		Deep Springs INY	1974-049	3
7. 26–27 May 1974		Oasis MNO	1974-063	3
8. 29 May 1974		Deep Springs INY	1980-009	6
9. 14–16 Sep 1974	HY	Southeast Farallon I. SF	1984-019	9	ph., CAS 68917
10. 29 Sep 1974		Deep Springs INY	1975-019	3
11. 30 Nov 1974		Big Tujunga Canyon LA	1976-112	3
12. 19–21 Sep 1975		Fairhaven HUM	1975-032	3,14
13. 21–22 Sep 1975		Fairhaven HUM	1975-032	3,14	ph., HSU 7179, Roberson (1980)
14. 15–17 Oct 1976		Scotty’s Castle INY	1976-111	3
15. 31 May 1977		Oasis MNO	1977-061	4
16. 04 Jun 1977		San Nicolas I. VEN	1980-010	6
17. 24 May 1979		Scotty’s Castle INY	1979-028	5	ph., Roberson (1980)
18. 08–16 Oct 1979		Fairhaven HUM	1980-196	7,14
19. 18–20 Jun 1980		Southeast Farallon I. SF	1988-040	14	ph.
20. 02 Sep 1980		Southeast Farallon I. SF	1987-108	14
21. 10–11 Sep 1980		Moss Beach SM	1981-026	7	ph.
22. 03 Oct 1980		Thousand Palms Oasis RIV	1987-333	14
23. 25–26 May 1981		Oasis MNO	1981-064	7
24. 24 Oct 1981		Morongo Valley SBE	1981-085	7
25. 02 Nov 1981		Agoura LA	1982-040	8
26. 22–23 May 1982		Oasis MNO	1982-064	8
27. 22–23 Oct 1982		Santa Barbara SBA	1982-104	8	ph.
28. 24 Oct 1982		Fullerton ORA	1983-018	8
29. 01–02 Jun 1984		Carpinteria SBA	1984-252	10
30. 06–12 Oct 1984		La Jolla SD	1984-219	10	ph.
31. 23 May 1985		Oasis MNO	1985-086	10
32. 23 May 1987		Oasis MNO	1987-139	12	ph.
33. 29–30 May 1987		Butterbredt Spring KER	1987-145	12	ph., AB 41:489
34. 16 Aug 1987		Dechambeau Creek MNO	1987-278	13
35. 21–22 May 1988		Mojave KER	1988-140	13
36. 30 Sep–01 Oct 1988	SY	Newport Beach ORA	1988-187	13
37. 26–30 Oct 1988		Irvine ORA	1988-245	13
38. 21 Sep 1990		Lake Palmdale LA	1990-195	16
39. 22–24 Sep 1990		Moss Beach SM	1990-141	16
40. 27 Oct 1990		Morongo Valley SBE	1990-164	16
41. 15 Dec 1990		Tijuana R. valley SD	1991-104	16
42. 22 May 1991		Valley Center SD	1991-091	16
43. 03 Jun 1991	SY	Southeast Farallon I. SF	1991-079	16	ph., AB 45:1179
44. 21 Sep 1991		Sunset Heights Park SF	1991-121	17
45. 19 Feb–14 Mar 1992		Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park ORA	1992-108	18
46. 08 May 1992		Oasis MNO	1992-172	20
47. 15 Jul 1992		Alpers Canyon MNO	1992-221	18
48. 19–20 Sep 1992		El Capitan State Beach SBA	1992-264	18	ph.
49. 10–12 Oct 1992		Stinson Beach MRN	1992-311	18
50. 27 May 1994		Wilmington LA	1994-094	20	ph.
51. 01–03 Oct 1994	AHY	Arroyo Grande SLO	1994-159	20
52. 25–30 Aug 1995		Pescadero Creek SM	1995-131	21
53. 21–24 Sep 1995		Galileo Hill KER	1995-104	21	ph.
54. 19 Oct 1995		Huntington Beach ORA	1996-024	21	Fig. 271, ph.
55. 01–03 Mar 1996		Atwater LA	1996-040	22
56. 31 May 1997		California City KER	1997-111	23	ph., FN 51:929
57. 18 Sep 1997		Huntington Beach ORA	1997-133	23
58. 19–25 Oct 1997	HY	Morongo Valley SBE	1997-176	23
59. 22–28 Nov 1997	HY	Mission Viejo ORA	1998-019	23
60. 29–30 Sep 1998		Southeast Farallon I. SF	1999-013	24
61. 04 Jun 2000		Pt. Reyes MRN	2000-087	26
62. 03 Aug 2000		S. Fork Kern R. Preserve KER	2001-051	26
63. 23 Nov 2000–02 Mar 2001		vic. Lompoc SBA	2000-162	26	ph.
64. 25 May 2001	SY	Southeast Farallon I. SF	2001-130	27
65. 13 Jun 2001		Galileo Hill KER	2001-133	27
66. 30 Dec 2001–12 Jan 2002		Costa Mesa ORA	2002-025	27
67. 27 Sep–02 Oct 2002	AHY	Pt. Reyes MRN	2002-167	28	ph., cover WB 34(2)
Golden-winged Warbler – Not accepted
15–19 May 2001		Pt. Loma SD	2001-082	27	ph., Garrett & Wilson (2003), accepted as
					Blue-winged × Golden-winged Warbler
Golden-winged Warbler – Not submitted
08 Dec 1962		San Bernardino SBE		14	Garrett & Dunn (1981)
10 Oct 1976		Honey Lake LAS		14	McCaskie et al. (1979)
29 May 1999		Blue Lake HUM			Harris (2006)
06 Oct 2001		Huntington Beach ORA			NAB 56:107

Figures

Figure 271). This male Golden-winged Warbler was photographed on 19 October 1995 in Huntington Beach, Orange County. The greenish wash evident on the bird’s nape and partial white crescent below the eye could represent manifestations of Blue-winged Warbler genes (1996-024; James R. Gallagher).

Figure 398. As with the closely related Blue-winged Warbler, the Golden-winged Warbler’s California records are almost evenly divided between spring and fall. Note the Golden-winged’s slightly earlier spring peak and slightly later fall peak compared with the Blue-winged (cf. Figure 396). The Golden-winged has been recorded five times in winter, all in southern coastal California, versus a single winter Blue-winged far to the north in Humboldt County.

Figure 399. Distribution of 67 Golden-winged Warblers accepted through 2003. In addition to records scattered along the southern coast, concentrations are seen at Southeast Farallon Island, Oasis in Mono County, Deep Springs in Inyo County, Fairhaven in Humboldt County, and the oases of eastern Kern County.

Golden-winged Warbler

GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER Vermivora chrysoptera (Linnaeus, 1766)

Accepted: 67 (99%)	Treated in Appendix H: no
Not accepted: 1	CBRC review: all records
Not submitted/reviewed: 4	Large color image: see Figures

This declining warbler’s patchy breeding range, which has been shifting northward in recent decades, abuts and overlaps that of the preceding species, and the two hybridize considerably (see the accounts bracketing this one). The species breeds from southern Manitoba and northern Minnesota east through the Great Lakes region to extreme southwestern Quebec and Vermont, as well as in the higher portions of the Appalachian Mts. south to western North Carolina. Migration occurs across the East, farther west in spring than in fall. The main wintering grounds are found on the Atlantic slope of Middle America from southern Mexico to northern South America, and birds winter rarely in the Greater Antilles and accidentally in the southern United States. This species has strayed widely and has been recorded west to Washington (NAB 58:134), Oregon, the Baja California Peninsula, and Clipperton Atoll; east to Newfoundland, Greenland, and Great Britain; and south to the Virgin Islands, Trinidad, and Ecuador.

A first-fall male Golden-winged Warbler found on 23 October 1960 in Montecito, Santa Barbara County, and collected the next day, gave California its first record (Richardson and Richardson 1961). Spring vagrants (8 May–15 July) account for four out of every ten records (26 of 67), and within this subset four out of every five have occurred between 20 May and 5 June (Figure 398). Fall vagrants (3 August–15 December) make up about half the total (36 of 67), and within this subset four out of every five have occurred between 10 September and 2 November. The remaining five birds were found during winter (23 November–14 March), all of them in the southern coastal lowlands. Included in this group is a male found dead on 18 December 1972 in Claremont, Los Angeles County, which could have been a late fall migrant.

Golden-winged Warblers have turned up at certain locations with uncanny frequency (Figure 399). Three fall records from Fairhaven, Humboldt County, all during the 1970s, remain the only ones from the state’s northern third. Southeast Farallon Island’s eight records include a surprising five in spring, among them a very late year-old male on 5 July 1972. A female found on 15 July 1992 at Alpers Canyon in Mono County furnished the state’s only other July record. Spring pilgrimages to Oasis, also in Mono County, have produced seven records of this rare gem, each during the month of May.

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