You can check records by going to the MOU website http://moumn.org
and click on Occurance Maps -> Notes The first Pomarine Jaeger record was : St. Louis 20-May-82 --- David Cahlander da...@cahlander.com Burnsville, MN 952-894-5910> > Laura Erickson wrote: >> I think the true story was that a Pomerine Jaeger was seen flying >> between the two states--it was sometime in the 80s. Kim Eckert and I, >> and maybe Mike Hendrickson, wrote it up--Mike drew a picture of the >> tail. But the tail feathers didn't stick out very far, and although >> they were quite rounded at the tip, the Wis committee thought it was >> at least possible that the feathers had broken off and could have worn >> in a rounded pattern. (At the time, there weren't the books available >> with such detailed descriptions as are available now.) The MOU >> committee accepted it as a Pomerine, perhaps influenced at least a bit >> by Kim's great knowledge and experience with both species. (Pomerine >> was a lifer for me.) At first the Wisconsin committee counted it as >> Parasitic, but I believe they changed that to Jaeger spp. >> >> Laura Erickson