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Rare Bird Alert: July 26, 2024

July 26, 2024

Continuing rare bird into this week include both Large-billed Tern (ABA Code 5) and Yellow-headed Caracara (5) in Florida, and the long staying and perhaps never-leaving Steller’s Sea-Eagle (4) in Newfoundland.

The theme this week is individual birds moving to new places, and for that we start in New Hampshire, where the previous reported Bridled Tern in Maine moved south into Rockingham Co, New Hampshire, this week where it represents a 1st record for that state.

The theme continues in Rhode Island, where the young American Flamingo that has spent a good part of the summer cruising between eastern Long Island, New York, and Cape Cod, Massachusetts, was finally photographed at a point between those two stops, in Newport Co, where it represents a 1st and a new state colored pink during this extraordinary, and ongoing, flamingo movement.

Maine is becoming quite the destination for impressive vagrant raptors and the state’s 1st Ferruginous Hawk in Auburn endorses that reputation. Maine’s 3rd Tropical Kingbird was also found this month in York Co.

New Brunswick’s 1st record of Wilson’s Plover was photographed by many in Comierville this week.

Louisiana boasts its second state 1st of the month in the form of a Heerman’s Gull in Jefferson Parish. It seems about equally possible that this could be one of the birds roaming the east coast over the last couple years or a new individual that crossed Mexico.

In Arizona, Maricopa Co was certainly hopping with the state’s 1st record of Curlew Sandpiper joined by the state’s 3rd record of Royal Tern.

And a Roseate Tern in Erie Co, Pennsylvania, is not technically the state’s 1st record, that landmark being reached with a bird collected in 1895, but it certainly feels like it. The bird is banded, suggesting that this is the same individual that was seen a couple weeks prior in Ohio.

Nova Scotia’s 3rd record of Burrowing Owl was found in Shelburne, likely of the migratory western subspecies rather than the sedentary Florida one.

Notable for Newfoundland, and indeed anywhere on the continent, was a Curlew Sandpiper (3) at Eddie’s Cove East.

Virginia also had a Curlew Sandpiper this week, at Chincoteague NWR.

Noteworthy in Maryland, a young Roseate Spoonbill was found in Cecil Co.

Hurricane Beryle’s path into the interior of the continent brought a young Sooty Tern to Hardin Co, Tennessee, but not much else.

Washington rings in stint season with a Red-necked Stint (4) in Grays Harbor, of which there are fewer than a dozen records.

And the newest from Alaska, a Eurasian Hobby (4) was spotted passing over St Paul.

Omissions and errors are not intended, but if you find any please message blog AT aba.org and I will try to fix them as soon as possible. This post is meant to be an account of the most recently reported birds. Continuing birds not mentioned are likely included in previous editions listed here. Place names written in italics refer to counties/parishes.

Readers should note that none of these reports has yet been vetted by a records committee. All birders are urged to submit documentation of rare sightings to the appropriate state or provincial committees. For full analysis of these and other bird observations, subscribe to North American Birds, the richly illustrated journal of ornithological record published by the ABA.

Nate Swick2024-07-26T12:41:13-04:00

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