Contents of Oregon Birds Volume 38(2) Status and Distribution The Changing Status of Broad-winged Hawk in Oregon Donald Wardwell 65 East-side birds in Western Oregon Adrian Hinkle 70 2012 Report of the Oregon Bird Records Committee Harry B. Nehls 73

Recent Research First confirmed nest of Black Swift in Oregon Eric Horvath 76 Nesting stand selection by Northern Goshawks in Grant County, Oregon Kieron Callahan 80 Brown Pelicans: A new disturbance source to breeding C. Murres in Oregon? Cheryl A. Morton and Robert M. Suryan 84 Variation in fledging dates of a family of Western Screech-Owls in Portland, Oregon Andy Frank 89

Birding Oregon Site Guide: Arizona Beach, Curry County Alan Contreras 90 My Big Year Russ Namitz 9 7 Malheur, 1942: my summer in paradise Tom McAllister 96 Oregon birders: Kent and Justin Rodecap Trask Colby 101 Portland Audubon's Youth Leadership award: Adrian and Christopher Hinkle 104

Business Annual Meeting report: Klamath Falls Pamela Johnston, President 705 Annual financial statement Mary Anne Sohlstrom, Treasurer 707

In Memoriam Jerry Smith 95 Dean Hale 708

CBC Schedule, compiled by Don Albright 709

Front Cover: Great Egrets at colony near Coos Bay. Photo by Rich Adney (Springfield) Back Cover: White-tailed Kite being harassed by American Crow. Photo by Mike Patterson (Astoria)

Oregon Birds The journal of Oregon birding

and field ornithology

Editor. Alan Contreras

Photo Editor: Brandon Green

Maps: John Notis

Editorial Assistants: Paul Sullivan,

Carol Karlen, Craig Turner, Pamela

Johnston

Oregon Birds is a publication of Oregon Birding Association (formerly Oregon Field Ornithologists), an Oregon not-for-profit corporation. Two issues are produced each year, a full-color " A n n u a l Highl ights" issue i n the spring and an issue w i t h other articles i n the fall .

Membership i n OBA includes a subscription to Oregon Birds. Oregon Birds is looking for material i n these broad categories: Birding Oregon, Recent Research, Short Notes, and Local News and Notes. Birding Oregon articles deal w i t h identification, distribution, b i r d finding guides, e.g. "where to f i n d a i n Oregon" (for some of the rarer birds). Recent Research articles typically deal w i t h ecology, management, conservation, taxonomy, behavior, biology, and historical aspects of ornithology and birding i n Oregon. Local News and Notes includes local information (new checklists, new b i rd ing sites, event information).

Deadline for submissions for Oregon Birds Volume 39(1): February 1, 2013

Oregon Field Ornithologists becomes Oregon Birding Association

By a vote of 146 in favor and 36 against, with 5 abstentions, those members of OFO who returned ballots (309 eligible) requested that the organization change its name to the Oregon Birding Association. This action was taken by the Board of Directors at its October, 2012 mee

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