Category Archives: Rarities

Bahama Woodstar  ©  Chris Bortz

***MEGA*** Bahama Woodstar, Lancaster PA

** Last seen around noon on Wednesday 4/24/2013. Updated at 5:58 pm EST 4/24/2013. An odd hummingbird was reported a couple days ago with initial suspicion that it could be…

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A successful chase: Black-throated Gray Warbler

This afternoon as I was picking up Justine after classes at SUNY-ESF, I got a text message that a Black-throated Gray Warbler had been spotted and confirmed at Sunset Bay…

One of two Yellow-headed Blackbirds that have been visiting a backyard in Montour County, PA. (Photo by Amy Dopp)

Montour County, PA – Yellow-headed Blackbirds

Amy Dopp of Montour County, Pennsylvania emailed us a few days ago with some photos of one of two Yellow-headed Blackbirds that have been visiting her parents’s bird feeders for…

The continuing odd couple - immature male Harlequin Duck and female Long-tailed Duck. (Photo by Alex Lamoreaux)

Harlequin Duck and Presque Isle Migrants

With a Sunday free from obligations and spring migration kicking into full swing, I joined up with Chad Kauffman and Mike Dreibelbis to head up towards Presque Isle State Park….

This photo shows the primary feather shape well. (Photo by Howard B. Eskin)

Delaware Birders robbed of 1st State Record?

Editor’s note – 4/4/13 – The identification of this bird is far from settled, and hummingbird experts and banders have varied opinions. Bruce Peterjohn, who banded the bird, sent out…

The Anna's as it looked in January (Photo by Alex Lamoreaux)

Delaware Anna’s Hummingbird – Then and Now

Read some newer info about the identification of this bird. During the late fall of 2012 it seemed almost as if a western hummingbird invasion was occurring across the eastern…

Hoary Redpoll in front with Common Redpolls behind

A three redpoll taxa day in PA

The Redpoll Challenge, to see all four New World taxa of redpolls (Greater Acanthis flammea rostrata, Common A. f. flammea, Hornemann’s A. hornemanni hornemanni, and Hoary A. h. exilipes) in…

La Sagra's Flycatcher at Green Cay Nature Center (Photo by Alex Lamoreaux)

La Sagra’s Flycatcher – Green Cay Nature Center

From early January until around March 8th, 2013 a La Sagra’s Flycatcher was hanging out around the parking lot and boardwalk to the Green Cay Nature Center in Palm Beach…

Neotropic Cormorant sitting on its nest - Note the bird's short bill, small head, overall small size, long tail, v-shaped corner of the mouth, and faint white-ish feathers along its lower mandible. (Photo by Alex Lamoreaux)

Neotropic Cormorant – Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Florida

Among the urban sprawl of southeastern Florida, Wakodahatchee Wetlands is a 50 acre safe haven for literally thousands of wetland birds of 171 species. These wetlands act as a natural filter…

Hoary Redpoll (female)

Amazing World of Redpolls

Redpolls are hardy little birds of the world’s northern tier. They breed in areas throughout the tundra where the short-growing willows speckle the landscape, during the refreshingly-cool (not dangerously-cold) summer…

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