One appears to have been found east of Amarillo yesterday!
https://ebird.org/checklist/S113484224?fbclid=IwAR2QOTGAOZsbm2qqCcTapU58IBY2xMvdWnWK5QEpvIJvVCTQf1kBFHeeEuo
Jennifer Miller
Lubbock, TX
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On Jun 22, 2022, at 12:33 AM, Brush Freeman <brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
WTH
On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 11:21 PM <ebird-alert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
*** Species Summary:
- Greater Scaup (1 report)
- Limpkin (Speckled) (2 reports)
- Limpkin (1 report)
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Greater Scaup (Aythya marila) (2)
- Reported Jun 16, 2022 07:08 by Don Pearson
- Parking area at entrance to lake, Carter, Oklahoma
- Map:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=34.245361,-97.462826&ll=34.245361,-97.462826
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S113051358
- Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "First found with a flock of Canada geese, geese move up on land
and scaup move out in lake , first with binoculars then got scope out ,
watched for several minutes, very flat head , larger bill with decent size
nail, ."
Limpkin (Speckled) (Aramus guarauna [pictus Group]) (1)
- Reported Jun 18, 2022 20:47 by Don Pearson
- Heraldton City Lake, Carter, Oklahoma
- Map:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=34.2406093,-97.4519358&ll=34.2406093,-97.4519358
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S113241444
- Comments: "Continuing bird photo to come"
Limpkin (Speckled) (Aramus guarauna [pictus Group]) (1)
- Reported Jun 18, 2022 08:43 by Don Pearson
- Limpkin, Carter, Oklahoma
- Map:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=34.247556,-97.446052&ll=34.247556,-97.446052
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S113180058
- Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Feeding along the shore on muscle"
Limpkin (Aramus guarauna) (1)
- Reported Jun 18, 2022 12:20 by Bob Ellis
- Mayham Rd, Healdton US-OK 34.24763, -97.44617, Carter, Oklahoma
- Map:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=34.247626,-97.446173&ll=34.247626,-97.446173
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S113201761
- Comments: "Previously seen by Don Pearson. Large long legged wader with
large spots and slightly down curved bill. Initially seen along the shore
but then it wadded through the grass and into the tree line where it was
very well camouflaged."
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Utley & Cedar Park, Texas