I would be grateful to hear from anyone who has a good record of ANY species of tern in Ohio prior to 3 March. I believe the origin of this bird (I feel sure it was a royal tern, but the decision lies with the records committee who will have all the information) is the Gulf coast. The violent storms we experienced about the first of the month (many people noticed coatings of dust, which were said to have originated in Texas) probably caught up this bird--and who knows how many others?-- and landed it here in our cold and inhospitable clime. Not all that different from our only sooty tern, that Hurricane Dennis brought us in July of 2005. Bill Whan Columbus ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]