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
<[email protected]> 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.
Shai Mitra
Bay Shore
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