Magnolia Warbler
This Magnolia Warbler (Setophaga magnolia) was not in the rain. The drops you can see on the branches of this white pine are from dense fog collecting on the tree. This is the time of year where those little twigs, tiny needles and growing leaves get right in the way of some good photos…grrr! Scott Kruitbosch Conservation & Outreach Coordinator
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This Chuck-will’s-widow (Antrostomus carolinensis), a female, was captured and banded in Costa Rica by RTPI Affiliate Sean Graesser, a first for the site list at Cabo Blanco, Costa Rica’s first national park. What makes the species special to us is a great birding memory from the spring of 2012. One early May morning I was walking the property at Stratford Point in Stratford, Connecticut, conducting an avian site survey. It was a temperate but cloudy, drizzly and foggy morning, with some confused migrant birds overshooting their likely targets, pushing into Long Island Sound and...
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