Rarely encountered in the Northeast, a White Pelican was observed and photographed at locations near Swanton, Vermont.
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An exciting find for Canadian birders was a Second Provincial Record Common Ringed Plover, which was photographed in Algonquin Park, Ontario. A Fifth State Record Tufted Duck was also photographed near Exeter, New Hampshire. Two rare hummingbirds caught many birders attention along our southern border, including a Berylline Hummingbird along Crystal Cave Trail in the Chiricahua Mountains in Southeast Arizona; and a White-eared Hummingbird was visiting a feeder at the Davis Mountains Preserve visitor center in west Texas. Interesting off-course birds from Siberia and the Caribbean were also reported!
PROVINCIAL & STATE RECORDS
Second Provincial Record Common Ringed Plover – Algonquin Park, Ontario
Fifth State Record Tufted Duck – near Exeter, New Hampshire
COOL RARE HUMMINGBIRDS
Berylline Hummingbird – Crystal Cave Trail, Arizona
White-eared Hummingbird – Davis Mountains Preserve, Texas
REALLY RARE SIGHTINGS
Little Stint – Saint Paul Island, Alaska
Black-tailed Godwit – Whitehead Island, Nova Scotia
Yellow-billed Loon – Brushy Creek Rec Area, Iowa
Great Black-backed Gull – Riverlands, Missouri
Magnificent Frigatebird – Fenwick Island, Delaware
White Pelican – near Swanton, Vermont
Brown Booby – Mount Desert Rock, Maine
Fulvous Whistling Duck – Jackson County, Illinois
Common Gallinule – Niobrara State Park, Nebraska
CONTINUING RARE BIRDS
We’ve been lucky enough to have a strong group of continuing rare birds through the summer, including the Common Crane continues to be seen in Arizona, the Slate-throated Redstart continues in Rio Grande National Park in west Texas; the Red-footed Booby and Nazca Booby continue in coastal California, and a Little Egret is still reported in southern Maine. Arctic-nesting shorebirds and neotropical songbirds have initiated their post-nesting movements and migrations, so August will surely produce more exciting rare birds!
For more information, see the American Birding Association’s Rare Bird Alert at http://blog.aba.org/2019/08/rare-bird-alert-august-16-2019.html
Special Thanks to the ABA, and Nate Swick, who does such a great job of compiling the ABA’s Rare Bird Alert, which we use to prepare this weekly replay.
You can often find more information about individual rare bird sightings from the state rare bird alert listserves that you can access at http://birding.aba.org/ or at https://www.facebook.com/groups/ABArare/