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We Didn’t Expect This!

Posted on Jan 11, 2015

We Didn’t Expect This!

Winter Birding Forecast #3 is brought to you by Audubon Connecticut in partnership with the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History. Last time we told you to “Expect the Unexpected”, but we certainly didn’t expect this.  A Couch’s Kingbird was spotted for the first time ever in New York and it happens that this bird has been hanging out in the West Village on Lower Manhattan for several weeks before it was identified as this rare and spectacular flycatcher that should be in Texas or Mexico right now.  If a Couch’s Kingbird can hang out undiscovered for several weeks on Manhattan...

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