A female Magnificent Frigatebird sighted far inland an hour north of Minneapolis a Mille Lacs Lake constituted a Second State Record for Minnesota.

A female Magnificent Frigatebird photographed far inland constituted a Second State Record for Minnesota last week. And there was a First State Record Little Egret in Vermont, possibly one of the European birds sighted in Maine during recent summers. Plus, another Limpkin was sighted near Garner, Texas, establishing a Third State Record (the other 2 Texas records were documented only 3 weeks ago). There were many other interesting offcourse birds recorded from California (a young Short-tailed Albatross) to Newfoundland (a Sandwich Tern), so read on.

STATE & PROVINCIAL RECORDS

First State Record Little Egret – Royalton, Vermont

Second State Record Magnificent Frigatebird – Mille Lacs Lake, Minnesota

Third State Record Limpkin – Garner, Texas

REALLY RARE SIGHTINGS

Short-tailed Albatross – offshore Long Beach, California

Eurasian Hobby – Nome, Alaska

Great Knot – Nome, Alaska

Long-tailed Murrelet – Homer, Alaska

Nazca Booby – Los Angeles harbor, California

Magnificent Frigatebird – Reeds Beach, New Jersey

Sandwich Tern – Codroy Valley, Newfoundland

Gull-billed Tern – Milford, Connecticut

Black-necked Stilt – Monteregie, Quebec

Black-chinned Hummingbird – near Yankton, South Dakota

Hooded Oriole – West Vancouver, British Columbia

Ovenbird – Sentinel Bluffs, Washington

Black-bellied Whistling Ducks (6) – Exeter, New Hampshire

Black-bellied Whistling Ducks (2) – Durham, North Carolina

CONTINUING RARE BIRDS

Pallas’s Bunting – Alaska

Berylline Hummingbird – Arizona

For more information, refer to the American Birding Association’s Rare Bird Alert at https://www.aba.org/rare-bird-alert-june-11-2021/ 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/