California Thrashers are rarely encountered beyond their name-state, but last week a singing male regaled birders near Talent, Oregon.

REALLY RARE SIGHTINGS

Pink-footed Goose – Ottawa, Ontario

Key West Quail Dove – near Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Barnacle Goose – Monteregie, Quebec

Rose-throated Becards – McAllen and Weslaco, Texas

California Thrasher – near Talent, Oregon

RARE GULL & TERN SIGHTINGS

Great Black-backed Gulls – Fort Randall and Oahe dams, South Dakota

Great Black-backed Gull – North Sterling Reservoir, Colorado

Mew Gull – Discovery Island, South Dakota

California Gull – southeast Nebraska

Elegant Terns – Wilcox, Arizona

Only a couple continuing rare birds were re-sighted last week: South Texas birders could only verify the Crimson-collared Grosbeak, and the Fallaron Islands Blue-footed Booby was still being sighted periodically far offshore from San Francisco, California. Enjoy all your birding endeavors; watch your feeders and check every bird along the way in the field – you never know what you might find next – especially during migration.

For more information, see the American Birding Association’s Rare Bird Alert at http://blog.aba.org/2019/04/rare-bird-alert-april-12-2019.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/