Friday, May 16, 2014

"Townsend's Bunting" in Prince Edward County?!?!?



Denis Lepage gets all the credit for this blog post. I saw his comment on ontbirds regarding the strange bird at Prince Edward Point, and dang it looks good:

http://birding.aba.org/message.php?mesid=704270&MLID=ON&MLNM=Ontario


Here's the first post to ontbirds:

http://birding.aba.org/message.php?mesid=704240&MLID=ON&MLNM=Ontario


And the link to the photos on whatbird:

http://www.whatbird.com/forum/index.php?/topic/119420-sparrowjunco-hybrid/#sthash.C2cwKOBz.dpuf


The Whatbird link to the story of this bird:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickcissel#.22Townsend.27s_Dickcissel.22



This is INSANE - this is one of John James Audubon's "long lost species" that was never seen again (even though he didn't actually see it alive?)... I have no idea, I'm just going on what I've just read with the links above...

But you could sort-of say that this is the second GLOBAL record EVER of this crazy bird... And now I'm deciding if I should go twitch the thing if it's refound...

CRAZYYY!



7 comments:

  1. Photos also on ebird - http://ebird.org/ebird/canada/view/checklist?subID=S18388526

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  2. Those photos give me goosebumps!

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  3. I think you have to chase this bird, if given the chance. I mean this could be one Audubon's mystery birds we're talking about here!

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    1. I know!!! Why is there no ontbirds post updating the status of the bird?!

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  4. This post needed a bump - I can't believe no one has posted yes/no for the bird on Ontbirds

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  5. Im headin to PEC on tuesday...maybe it will stick around!

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