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Tag Archives: rarity
Never Stop Birding: The Saga of a Bulgarian Mega
Part One: The Discovery A couple days ago I decided to visit the Ethnographic Museum in the Old Town of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. It was right around the corner from my hostel, located in a beautiful building, and just generally seemed … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, Rarities, Travel, Western Palearctic
Tagged Balkans, Bulgaria, Central Asia, first record, Hume's, Plovdiv, rarity, self-found, vagrant, warbler
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Vagrants for Days…
The past week has been pretty crazy (and exhausting) bird wise. It all started last Sunday when I was able to chase a slaty-backed gull that had been found a few days prior at Presque Isle State Park on Lake … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, Rarities
Tagged ABA, backed, Berks, Black, black-backed oriole, County, Erie, first, gull, pa, Pennsylvania, Presque isle, rarity, record, slaty-backed
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Tale of Three Vagrants
For the past week I have been in Florida briefly before heading down to the Dominican Republic day after tomorrow (much more on that later). While it has not been a birding trip, I have had a bit of time … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, Rarities, Travel
Tagged ABA, Birding, Birds, Biscayne, black-faced, Boca Raton, code 4, code 5, Cuban, Dominican Republic, dove, Florida, grassquit, Hispaniola, key, Largo, Long Key, Miami, pewee, rarity, South, south florida, state park, travel, vagrant, Zenaida
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Cleaning up South Florida Specialties — March 2015
Lifers Denoted by Bold Over the past spring break, my family went down to spend a week in South Florida. Having been to Florida twice before, I had seen a lot of the specialty birds to be found there. However, … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, Rarities, Travel
Tagged Birding, Birds, dry, Everglades, exotic, flamingo, Florida, La Sagra's flycatcher, lifers, national park, rarity, Sandy Komito, South, south florida, specialty, Tern, tortugas, travel, twitching
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Western Kingbird — Carbon County, PA
A few weeks ago, I was able to chase a continuing western kingbird in Carbon County, PA. This was a great state lifer for me and a really great bird to see in the state. While I haven’t found time … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, Rarities
Tagged Birding, Birds, Carbon county, kingbird, pa, Pennsylvania, rarity, state, twitching, western
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Franklin’s Mania 2k15 — PA Edition
As any birder in North America who hasn’t been living under a rock should know, last weekend saw a massive invasion of Franklin’s gulls to the east of a scale not seen since 1998 (meaning I was 1 month old … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, Rarities, Uncategorized
Tagged 2k15, Birding, Birds, black-bellied plover, Bonaparte's gull, Common, County, Erie, Franklin's, gull, Lake Erie, lakewatching, mania, merg, myrtle, pa, Pensylvania, Presque Isle State Park, rarity, red-breasted merganser, red-throated loon, sanderling, scoter, shorebirds, snow, snow bunting, state, surf, Tern, tim hortons, tundra swan, white-winged, yellow-rumped warbler
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Camp Chiricahua Day 8
Lifers Denoted by Bold The morning of the eighth day of Camp Chirichua began with a trip to the San Pedro House. On our drive into Sierra Vista the evening before, we had passed over the San Pedro River and the … Continue reading
Couch’s Kingbird — Alleghany County, MD
This past week, a Couch’s kingbird was found in Alleghany County, Maryland. It represented the first state record for Maryland. This was one of the species I missed when I visited the Rio Grande Valley a few years ago and … Continue reading
Cattle Egrets in Mercer County PA
On Friday, a Pittsburgh area birder discovered a flock of five cattle egrets in a cow field along the side of I79 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Cattle egrets are quite a good bird for this area of PA and so … Continue reading
Northern Wheatear in Cleveland
Last Tuesday, a Northern wheatear was reported at Headlands Beach State Park in Cleveland. While I have seen wheatears in Britain, this would be a ABA Area life bird for me. However, I had school during the week and so … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, Rarities, Travel
Tagged ABA, Bonaparte's gull, Caspian, chase, Cleveland, great black-backed gull, Headlands Beach State Park, Impoundment, Lake Erie, lifer, Lorain Harbor, Mentor, northern, Ohio, plover, rarity, red-necked phalarope, sanderling, Tern, twitching, wheatear, whimbrel
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