[wisb] Re: (no sightings) Heads up! Elaenia sp in Chicago.
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- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:25:43 +0000
I just heard about this from Tom Prestby. An incredible find! Even more amazing
than our mango. There is only one ABA record for White-crested Elaenia and that
was from South Padre Island, Texas in 2008. Even in Texas elaenias are
mega-rarities.
Mark Korducki, New Berlin
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From: Chris West <little_blue_birdie@xxxxxxx>
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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:08:18
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Subject: [wisb] (no sightings) Heads up! Elaenia sp in Chicago.
Hey everyone,
A friend of mine found an Elaenia Sp (likely either White-crested or
Small-billed) at Douglas Park in Chicago, IL yesterday. The identity of the
bird was not known until today. The specific identity is still not known and
may take quite a while to identify it to species.
Elaenias are a group of tropical flycatchers that are found from Mexico and the
Caribbean south to Argentina. I saw my lifer White-crested Elaenia in Peru a
couple years ago.
Anyway, it's an incredible find, but worth noting and definitely worth
double-checking just about any bird you see..... This is spring vagrant season!
The link to the discussion about the Elaenia in question is here:
http://www.ilbirds.com/index.php?topicP480.msg74217#new
Happy Birding! --Chris W, Richland County Interpretive Naturalist Mississippi
Explorer Cruises
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material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the
composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no
more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be
again."
(From William Beebe's "The Bird: Its Form and Function," 1906)
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