Chuck-will’s-widow (Antrostomus carolinensis)
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...
Read MorePurple Gallinule (Porphyrio martinicus) by Scott Kruitbosch
Record shot of a Purple Gallinule (Porphyrio martinicus) in my Connecticut neighborhood that I found 7 years ago today. What a bird. It’s a great time for spring “overshoots”, especially in this weather pattern. Keep your eyes and minds open.
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