Prof. Mitra, We had a Pin-tailed Whydah today in Central Park (Compost area, around 106 Street). I don’t think it is a “vagrant” (there are small colonies of these birds in California and Florida) but probably an escapee. We did not see any band or tag in the legs of the bird.
I did report the bird in my e-Bird report for Central Park (today). https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S60469413 FP On Oct 8, 2019, at 7:13 PM, Shaibal Mitra <shaibal.mi...@csi.cuny.edu<mailto:shaibal.mi...@csi.cuny.edu>> wrote: Thanks, Nathan. I had only heard via word of mouth about the sighting on 7 Sep and then seen the photo from a few days ago. The lack of excitement makes sense in retrospect, given that some of the people in the know were aware of the band. The rest of us had to wonder whether anybody had done due diligence (as turned out to be true) or whether it was another case of not very well informed indifference toward a species with genuine potential for vagrancy. To me this highlights the importance of the listserv for cases like this that require analysis and explanation. I'm gonna let it hang out there on the Hot 100 for a while, as my latest lifebird on eBird, to amuse the guilty and punish the innocent! Shai ________________________________________ From: bounce-124002490-11143...@list.cornell.edu<mailto:bounce-124002490-11143...@list.cornell.edu> [bounce-124002490-11143...@list.cornell.edu<mailto:bounce-124002490-11143...@list.cornell.edu>] on behalf of nathan o'reilly [natro...@hotmail.com<mailto:natro...@hotmail.com>] Sent: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 6:22 PM To: Robert Lewis; Long Island Birding . Cc: birds Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Lined Seedeater, Queens On the eBird report from Sept 7 you can see a band on the leg. https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S59576345 [https://download.ams.birds.cornell.edu/api/v1/asset/175971541/1200]<https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S59576345> eBird Checklist - 7 Sep 2019 - Charles Memorial Park - 28 species<https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S59576345> Hiding a checklist will exclude the taxa on it from all forms of eBird output that show a location (including bar charts, maps, and arrival/departure tables), but the observation will still be accessible to you, and will appear on your lists. ebird.org Sent from Outlook<http://aka.ms/weboutlook> ________________________________ From: bounce-124002397-79824...@list.cornell.edu <bounce-124002397-79824...@list.cornell.edu> on behalf of Long Island Birding . <michaelz...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 5:27 PM To: Robert Lewis <rfer...@yahoo.com> Cc: birds <nysbirds-l@cornell.edu> Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Lined Seedeater, Queens Hello Bob, Just of note these birds are widely available for purchase online and maybe even in local pet stores. I think many feel that it was probably an escapee rather than the more unlikely scenario of a vagrant, but who knows? https://leesexoticbirds.com/prices/ http://www.mdexoticbirds.net/Birds.html?1015.PCI=100262 Mike Z. On Tue, Oct 8, 2019, 5:18 PM Robert Lewis <rfer...@yahoo.com<mailto:rfer...@yahoo.com>> wrote: HUH?? This has been present since September 7?? And not a single post of that fact to this server before? Or did I miss it? Thank you Shai. Bob Lewis Sleepy Hollow NY On Tuesday, October 8, 2019, 4:41:42 PM EDT, Shaibal Mitra <shaibal.mi...@csi.cuny.edu<mailto:shaibal.mi...@csi.cuny.edu>> wrote: We birders are good at distinguishing between the improbable (e.g., seeing a Lined Seedeater in New York) and the imponderable (e.g., deliberately driving the Belt Parkway on a morning when one had been granted a reprieve from doing so). With a chance at the former as an inducement for the enduring the latter, I visited the Charles Memorial Park this morning, on the north shore of Jamaica Bay, directly north of the parking area where we stage for visits to the north end of the East Pond. The male Lined Seedeater was skulky but still present, continuing from at least 7 Sep: https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S60461352 I'm not sure why this bird has not garnered more attention within the birding community. Lined Seedeater is a trans-equatorial austral migrant and a plausible candidate for natural vagrancy to North America. There is a specimen from the Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire, from 8 August 1935 (MCZ), and records of vagrants north of the regular northern South American austral winter (our summer) range from Costa Rica, and from Guadeloupe--the latter from 6-7 Sep 2017, perhaps not coincidentally almost exactly the date the present bird was found this year. 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