dragon49 Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 1 hour ago, Peromyscus said: Large-billed Tern in Brevard County Florida!!! !!! Possibly the 4th?? US record. https://ebird.org/checklist/S140133560 @dragon49 Thanks - I'm a member of a county private group and I heard about this earlier today. I do understand the gravity of this. I have to work tomorrow, and my weekend is spoken for. I've committed to a guided tour on Saturday, and I'm counted on to take good photos. On Sunday, I'm chasing a Red-cockaded Woodpecker with a friend. I got that lifer back in February, but it was in a neighboring county. Keep hammering me though - I need it! Without peer pressure from the forum, I may have missed the once in a lifetime Red-legged Honeycreeper that I saw back in October. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birds are cool Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 Alright, so who's funding my trip to Alaska? There are 21 species of vagrants in Alaska! Most of them are very rare vagrants. Lesser Sand-Plover. (no photo, but confirmed) : https://ebird.org/checklist/S140229695 Common House Martin. (no photo, but confirmed) : https://ebird.org/checklist/S140218928 Red-necked Stint, Siberian Rubythroat, Gray Wagtail, Olive-backed Pipit, and a Rustic Bunting! : https://ebird.org/checklist/S140186002?view=photos Siberian Stonechat. (no photo, but confirmed) : https://ebird.org/checklist/S140223825 White Wagtail : https://ebird.org/checklist/S140199923?view=photos I have already posted the other rarities, and don't want to be repetitive. Alaska has been insane this year! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birds are cool Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 Some really nice photos of the Gull-billed Tern in Florida! https://ebird.org/checklist/S140132856?view=photos @dragon49, if you can get this bird, I would go for it! It's a once in a lifetime bird! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted June 3 Share Posted June 3 1 hour ago, Birds are cool said: Alaska has been insane this year! It’s always full or vagrants this time of year. Closest spot on the continent to Asia. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peromyscus Posted June 3 Share Posted June 3 13 hours ago, Birds are cool said: Some really nice photos of the *Large*-billed Tern in Florida! https://ebird.org/checklist/S140132856?view=photos @dragon49, if you can get this bird, I would go for it! It's a once in a lifetime bird! Literally! The only US birds before this year were in 1988, 1954, and 1945. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birds are cool Posted June 3 Share Posted June 3 11 hours ago, IKLland said: It’s always full or vagrants this time of year. Closest spot on the continent to Asia. I know, but this is the most and the craziest rarities I have seen there in my three years of having the ABA rare bird alerts. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLecy Posted June 3 Share Posted June 3 On 6/1/2023 at 8:15 PM, dragon49 said: Thanks - I'm a member of a county private group and I heard about this earlier today. I do understand the gravity of this. I have to work tomorrow, and my weekend is spoken for. I've committed to a guided tour on Saturday, and I'm counted on to take good photos. On Sunday, I'm chasing a Red-cockaded Woodpecker with a friend. I got that lifer back in February, but it was in a neighboring county. Keep hammering me though - I need it! Without peer pressure from the forum, I may have missed the once in a lifetime Red-legged Honeycreeper that I saw back in October. I would drop everything to go see that bird… 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted June 3 Share Posted June 3 4 minutes ago, DLecy said: I would drop everything to go see that bird… Agreed. This is a WAY better bird than the honeycreeper. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peromyscus Posted June 3 Share Posted June 3 6 hours ago, DLecy said: I would drop everything to go see that bird… If it were closer I would have ... blown off an appointment and/or not visited my mother-in-law (yesterday and today respectively) 😇 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birds are cool Posted June 3 Share Posted June 3 50 minutes ago, Peromyscus said: If it were closer I would have ... blown off an appointment and/or not visited my mother-in-law (yesterday and today respectively) 😇 If I had time, (and if my father would let me) I would pay for plane tickets for my father and I, and fly down to go see the bird. That's a crazy rarity! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peromyscus Posted June 3 Share Posted June 3 20 minutes ago, Birds are cool said: That's a crazy rarity! Yup! And there are two! Both seen today. One in Collier County on the southwest coast, and one in Brevard County on the central east coast of Florida. I wonder how many people will look for/see both birds. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birds are cool Posted June 3 Share Posted June 3 35 minutes ago, Peromyscus said: One in Collier County on the southwest coast, and one in Brevard County on the central east coast of Florida. I wonder if they came in together, and then went and did their own things, or if the same winds that pushed one this way pushed the other even farther? I really hope one flys up my way! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birds are cool Posted June 4 Share Posted June 4 Arctic Loon in Colorado! https://ebird.org/checklist/S140271691?view=photos Some really nice pictures of the Black-tailed Godwit that is still in Canada. https://ebird.org/checklist/S140342136?view=photos European Storm Petrel in NC! I believe @blackburnian was on this pelagic. https://ebird.org/checklist/S140282761?view=photos Red-billed Tropicbird in NC! I'm pretty sure @blackburnian was on this pelagic as well! https://ebird.org/checklist/S140266621 On a side note, a Little Gull was found in the same location as the continuing Ross's Gull! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peromyscus Posted June 4 Share Posted June 4 (edited) 29 minutes ago, Birds are cool said: I wonder if they came in together, and then went and did their own things, or if the same winds that pushed one this way pushed the other even farther? I really hope one flys up my way! Good question. The discoverer of the Collier County bird said (https://ebird.org/checklist/S140093459) that there was a second bird further away. But she only reported 1 on her checklist. eta: I'm going to be keeping an eye out for this species up here in Maryland whenever I'm near a wetland or river or stream. A fool's errand I know, but I would so love to see this species locally. Edited June 4 by Peromyscus 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelLong Posted June 4 Share Posted June 4 An insane number of Cooks Petrel on yesterdays pelagic out of San Diego, here's hoping it's a bloom year!! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted June 4 Share Posted June 4 1 hour ago, MichaelLong said: An insane number of Cooks Petrel on yesterdays pelagic out of San Diego, here's hoping it's a bloom year!! Yikes. Hopefully we’ll have comparable numbers on the august 6 trip I’m going on! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulK Posted June 4 Share Posted June 4 I have a question about how ABA rarities are determined. There's currently a white-eyed vireo on Vancouver island, the second only record for the province. Regular range is nowhere near this half of the continent, but it isn't considered an ABA rarity. Does anyone have an explanation for how they come up with the lists? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birds are cool Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 3 hours ago, PaulK said: I have a question about how ABA rarities are determined. There's currently a white-eyed vireo on Vancouver island, the second only record for the province. Regular range is nowhere near this half of the continent, but it isn't considered an ABA rarity. Does anyone have an explanation for how they come up with the lists? Here you go: https://www.aba.org/aba-checklist/ Basically code one is a species commonly seen in Canada and the US. For example, and American Robin. A code 5 bird is a species that has only been seen a few times in Canada and the US. For example, a Large-billed Tern. Only 5 ever records for the US and Canada. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLecy Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 6 hours ago, PaulK said: I have a question about how ABA rarities are determined. There's currently a white-eyed vireo on Vancouver island, the second only record for the province. Regular range is nowhere near this half of the continent, but it isn't considered an ABA rarity. Does anyone have an explanation for how they come up with the lists? Remember, the ABA does encompass the entire ABA region. So, a White-eyed Vireo, while locally a really rare bird, is not rare at all in the scale of the ABA. They are year round residents in coastal SE US, and they breed over about 1/4 of the entire US, concentrated in the Southeast. Not rare at all by ABA standards. FWIW, I’ve only ever seen three ABA code 5’s. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 45 minutes ago, DLecy said: Remember, the ABA does encompass the entire ABA region. So, a White-eyed Vireo, while locally a really rare bird, is not rare at all in the scale of the ABA. They are year round residents in coastal SE US, and they breed over about 1/4 of the entire US, concentrated in the Southeast. Not rare at all by ABA standards. FWIW, I’ve only ever seen three ABA code 5’s. ORTD, COCU, and? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 Just now, IKLland said: ORTD, COCU, and? Willow Warbler? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLecy Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 4 minutes ago, IKLland said: Willow Warbler? Willow Warbler, yes. the Turtle Dove and Common Cuckoo are code 4 and 3 respectively, I think. The fact that some species are regular in Alaska really skews the coding. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulK Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 Thanks! I had misunderstood how this worked and thought it was based off of provincial/state-specific lists. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 31 minutes ago, DLecy said: Willow Warbler, yes. the Turtle Dove and Common Cuckoo are code 4 and 3 respectively, I think. The fact that some species are regular in Alaska really skews the coding. What were the other 2 code 5s? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLecy Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 3 minutes ago, IKLland said: What were the other 2 code 5s? Sinaloa Wren in AZ, and Marsh Sandpiper in CA. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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