Date: 9/9/12 10:21 am
From: Phil Davis <pdavis...>
Subject: [MDBirding] Extralimital: Crested Caracara (NJ)


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.


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Phil Davis Davidsonville, Maryland USA
mailto:<PDavis...>
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