For the past several years I've focused my spring season reports in North
American Birds on the curious spike in our Region of records of vagrants and
half-hardies during March. This generally under-appreciated pattern is not only
very well-documented but also, I argue, potentially a very signif
Sorry - meant to add this to the thread.
NYBG has been frozen, as much of the NYC area. Our crabapples and any other
fruit/seed producing trees have been stripped bare with some strands left. If
the grosbeak over wintered at the zoo there would have been more available
food.
In the last two
To further support the over-wintering hypothesis, we would predict that if
this were a migrant, there would currently be a spate of records along the
Gulf Coast. Checking e-bird, there are exactly two March 2015 records for
the species, with none in the Caribbean.
Hugh
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 12:
As Gabriel Willow and Tom Fiore have already pointed out, given the proximity
of the New York Botanical Garden to the Bronx Zoo where a female Rose-breasted
Grosbeak was reported on December 28 and February 17, this is far more likely
to be that same individual than an early arrival from the spe
There was a female-type Rose-breasted Grosbeak reported from the Bronx Zoo on
Feb. 17. That's quite close to NYBG, I wonder if she is the same bird who
survived the past three weeks or so? Seems likely. And if so, I'd guess she
overwintered, rather than being an early arrival. There's a phot
There's a photo on Facebook and it's definitely a Grosbeak.
> On Mar 13, 2015, at 6:41 PM, Will Raup wrote:
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> It's an almost an extraordinary sighting.
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> Typical arrival times is late April downstate, and around May 1st for areas
> south of the Adirondacks.
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> Was female Purple Finch
It's an almost an extraordinary sighting.
Typical arrival times is late April downstate, and around May 1st for areas
south of the Adirondacks.
Was female Purple Finch ruled out? They seem to be moving right now.
Any photos?
Will RaupGlenmont, NYDate: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 18:36:54 -0400
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