Purple Sandpipers, pretty reliable in the winter, one or two birds, at north
and/or south Ponce Inlet, between Daytona Beach and New Smynra Beach, FL.... On
the jetty rocks, especially at the beginning of each jetty from shore.
Preston Forsythe, Browder, KY
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On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 1:26 PM, mikesindahouse<mikesindahouse@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote: The odds of a purple sandpiper also seem relatively good to me.
Mike CallanJeffersontown, KY
On Dec 24, 2022, at 2:02 PM, Ronan O'Carra <ronan.o.carra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The next step is to put these in order of most likely to occur next. Seeing as
there was a Townsend’s Solitaire west of Nashville of late, that would seem the
most likely to me. All entries will be followed for the next 30 years to see
who wins.Ronan O’CarraLexington
On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 1:37 PM <brainard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This fall, Kentucky has hosted two species of birds (American Oystercatcher and
Pink-footed Goose) that have heretofore not been reported in KY or any of our
surrounding states. Not sure how unusual that is, but it might be the first
time ever seeing as how most states always seem to be ahead of us. That got
some of us to thinking how many birds there are that are actually *more likely*
to occur in Kentucky than those two.
I did a cursory and probably somewhat incomplete search for species that have
been seen in adjacent states but have not been seen here (which by one narrow
definition may make them all considered more likely to occur than the
oystercatcher or the goose).
That search included *at least* the sixty species on the following list. All of
these have been reliably reported at least once in IL, IN, OH, WV, and TN (I
left out Virginia because it has coast and Missouri because it extends so far
west). There are a few of these species that have been reported in KY
"hypothetically" but I used our "official" state list as the guideline.
Obviously a number of these are as "unlikely" as the oystercatcher and the
goose, but I had to use something as a guide! I likely missed at least a few
and I also omitted a couple that might be considered unvalidated by a skeptic
(me? certainly not!).
Garganey
Common Eider
Barrow’s Goldeneye
Clark’s Grebe
Greater Flamingo
Crested Caracara
Gyrfalcon
Clapper Rail
Northern Lapwing
Snowy Plover
Wilson’s Plover
Lesser Sand-Plover
Mountain Plover
Spotted Redshank
Long-billed Curlew
Black-tailed Godwit
Purple Sandpiper
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
South Polar Skua
Black-tailed Gull
Kelp Gull
Ivory Gull
Ross’s Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Western Gull
Slaty-backed Gull
Heerman’s Gull
Royal Tern
Arctic Tern
Brown Noddy
Bridled Tern
Ancient Murrelet
White-throated Swift
Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Broad-billed Hummingbird
Calliope Hummingbird
Allen’s Hummingbird
Hammond’s Flycatcher
Tropical Kingbird
Couch’s Kingbird
Cassin’s Kingbird
Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Variegated Flycatcher
Great Kiskadee
Townsend’s Solitaire
Sage Thrasher
Sprague’s Pipit
Bohemian Waxwing
Virginia’s Warbler
Townsend’s Warbler
Painted Restart
Lazuli Bunting
Cassin’s Sparrow
Black-throated Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Thick-billed Longspur
Chestnut-collared Longspur
Great-tailed Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
Brambling
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
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