While the Sabine's Gull may have everyone's attention, this message from Ned Brinkley on VA-birds is worthy of note to Maryland birders, too ...
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From: Ned Brinkley <23cahow...> To: VA-BIRD <va-bird...> Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 08:13:08 -0400 Subject: [Va-bird] extralimital: Crested Caracara in New Jersey
Virginia birders should keep an eye out for caracaras, as there have been several records to our north recently, including this one in New Jersey yesterday:
http://www.surfbirds.com/gallery/share_photo.php?imgname=20120908215555844.jpg
With good photographs, it should be possible to tell how many caracaras are involved and what their movements are. In some cases, but not many, vagrant caracaras have been relocated well to the south of their initial area of discovery. The vagrancy of Crested Caracaras is a relatively new thing and appears to be originating in the Southwest and Mexico, not Florida. Past Virginia records (from the 1970s) have been traced to zoos.
================================== Phil Davis Davidsonville, Maryland USA mailto:<PDavis...> ==================================
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