Continuing rarities in the ABA Area include multiple Hawfinches (ABA Code 4) and Common Pochard (4) in Alaska, read more >>
Continuing rarities in the ABA Area include both Long-toed Stint (ABA Code 4) and multiple Hawfinches (4) in Alaska, read more >>
We'll jump straight into the new birds here this week, as we've got two weeks to work through. read more >>
On a quick programming note, there will not be a Rare Bird Alert post next week, as I read more >>
Continuing rarities in the ABA Area include the flock of Brown Jays (ABA Code 4) in read more >>
Continuing birds in the ABA Area include the small flock of Brown Jays (ABA Code 4) read more >>
Here's your roundup of new ABA Area rarities for the week. A quick programming note; there read more >>
The small flock of Brown Jays (ABA Code 4) in south Texas lead off the list read more >>
Continuing rarities of note in the ABA Area include the small flock of Brown Jays (ABA read more >>
Continuing birds in the ABA Area include the small flock of Brown Jays (ABA Code 4) in south Texas, the Bahama Mockingbird (4) and La Sagra’s Flycatcher (4) in Florida, and both a Red-flanked Bluetail (4) and a Little Stint (4) in California.
Plenty of high-quality contiuing rare birds in the ABA Area this week, including the somewhat expected read more >>
We sit smack in the doldrums of late winter/early spring in the ABA Area. Birders to read more >>
Welcome back to the Rare Bird Alert after an off week in which I was out read more >>
It's back! From Maine comes the report that the Steller's Sea-Eagle (ABA Code 4), now in read more >>
Not a lot has changed in continuing rarities in the ABA Area this week, with Common read more >>
Rarities continuing into the last week of January in the ABA Area include the Common Shelduck read more >>
Continuing rarities in the ABA Area include both Bahama Mockingbird (ABA Code 4) and LaSagra's Flycatcher read more >>
The ABA Area hosts an impressive set of rarities continuing into this week, with the highlight remaining read more >>
Continuing rarities in the ABA Area include the Common Shelduck (ABA Code 5) in Pennsylvania, a read more >>
As we head in to the belly of Christmas Bird Count season, we watchers of rarities read more >>
After more than a year, the south Texas Social Flycatcher (5) is still being seen, a read more >>
One notable rare bird of Code 4 or higher is continuing in the ABA Area, the read more >>
The Steller's Sea-Eagle (ABA Code 4), having spent more than a year now in North America, is read more >>
I was in Texas last week for the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival and thus, not able read more >>
Another great week for 1st records across the ABA Area. November is typically the best month read more >>
Continuing rarities in the ABA Area into this last week of October include a continuation of the read more >>
It was a sensational week for rarities in the ABA Area, with greta quality and quantity of read more >>
The long-staying Social Flycatcher (ABA Code 5) in south Texas was seen again this week, and read more >>
There are a handful of continuing rarities in the ABA Area this week, including Nazca Booby read more >>
The rare bird center of the ABA Area continues to be in Alaska where Taiga Flycatcher read more >>
A Thick-billed Vireo (ABA Code 4) leads off the continuing rarities in the ABA Area this read more >>
Sorry for the lack of an RBA last week. I was away in Panama with an ABA read more >>
New Jersey's first record of Bermuda Petrel was photographed off Cape May August 27 on the read more >>
Continuing ABA Area rarities include the Gray Heron (ABA Code 5) on Prince Edward Island, Berylline read more >>
Continuing rarities in the ABA Area into the third week of August include Berylline Hummingbird (ABA read more >>
Continuing ABA Area rarities include Steller's Sea-Eagle (ABA Code 4) in Newfoundland, Berylline Hummingbird (4) in Arizona, read more >>
Both Berylline Hummingbird (ABA Code 4) and Pine Flycatcher (5) continue in southeast Arizona, and the read more >>
Berylline Hummingbird (ABA Code 4) and Pine Flycatcher (5) continue in Arizona into this week, as read more >>
A good number of conituing rarities in the ABA Area into this week, including the triumphant read more >>
Rare birds in the ABA Area continuing into the middle of July include Berylline Hummingbird (ABA read more >>
Michigan continues its incredible run with 1st records of Red-cockaded Woodpecker and Common Redshank, the latter possibly from east Asia. Also, Yukon is back on the board with a 1st territorial record of American Bittern.
An airfield in Michigan is a surprising place for what might be the ABA Area's 1st record of Southern Lapwing. And in the Yukon territory, a Mississippi Kite is a similarly far flung vagrant 1st.
There are a handful of rarities continuing in the ABA Area this week, including Berylline Hummingbird read more >>
It's another very flycatchery list of continuing rarities in the ABA Area this week, which makes read more >>
There are lots of continuing rarities this week in the ABA Area, including additional sightings of read more >>
A lot of continuing flycatchers in the ABA Area in June, with both Pine Flycatcher (ABA read more >>
There's a very heavy tyrannid representation among the returning ABA rarities this week, which is appropriate read more >>
Lots of interesting birds still hanging out in the ABA rea into this week, starting with read more >>
It's been another good week for rare birds in the ABA Area, highlighted by the discovery, read more >>
Rare birds continuing into this first week of May include Tufted Flycatcher (ABA Code 5) in read more >>
Continuing rarities in the ABA Area include Bahama Mockingbird (ABA Code 4) in Florida, Tufted Flycatcher read more >>
We're starting to build up a healthy stable of continuing rarities in the ABA Area again, read more >>
If anyone out there is wondering where the Rare Bird Alert went last week, I was read more >>
It'a April Fool's Day, and the urge to make up rare birds runs high on this read more >>
The exciting Red-flanked Bluetail (ABA Code 4) in Washington is an easy highlight of the contining rarities read more >>
Rare birds continuing into this week include Oriental Turtle-Dove (ABA Code 4) and Little Stint (4) read more >>
If you've been following this report all year, you'll be familiar with the continuing ABA Area rarities, read more >>
Once again, the list of continuing ABA rarities is far longer than the list of new read more >>
Rare birds still being found in the ABA Area into this last week of February include read more >>
Loads of continuing rarities in the ABA Area this week, including the triumphant return of the read more >>
Oriental Turtle-Dove (ABA Code 4) and Little Stint (4) highlight the continuing ABA Area rare birds read more >>
The long list of continuing rarities in the ABA Area has not shortened much in the read more >>
Lots of continuing ABA Area rarities this week, many of which have been present for multiple read more >>
There are more continuing rarities in the ABA Area than new ones right now, with the read more >>
Texas continues to collect ABA Area rarities like Pokemon cards with continuing Bat Falcon (ABA Code read more >>
Would be ABA Big Year birders are undoubtedly starting the year off in Texas, where the read more >>
We were off due to the holiday last week, but back today with a special two read more >>
ABA Area Rarities continuing into this first Christmas Bird Count Week include the New Mexico Blue read more >>
A beautiful Short-billed Albatross in Oregon and many vagrant Kingbirds in the east highlight a nice pre-CBC accounting of rare birds around the ABA Area.
South Texas continues to host excellent ABA Area rarities with Social Flycatcher (ABA Code 5), Golden-crowned read more >>
The only continuing bird of note this week, or at least the only one reported to read more >>
November, historically the best rarity month of the year, blows in with 1st records for North Dakota, California, Arizona, and Vermont, and the beginning of rare European geese turning up in the northeast.
The Steller's Sea-Eagle in eastern Canada is back! Discovered this time in Nova Scotia, where it represents a 1st provincial record.
Quebec is the center of the rarity world this week, with potential 1sts Lesson's Seedeater and Small-billed Elaenia. But NC, SC, GA, FL, and SK boast 1sts on their own as well.
Vermont's 1st record of Bell's Vireo is an exciting find, along with a Brambling in Montana and an extraordinary Brown-headed Nuthatch in Kansas. All that and more in this week's Rare Bird Alert.
The lonely Oahu Inca Tern (ABA Code 5) in Hawaii remains the sole ABA Area rarity read more >>
Lots of state and provincial 1sts this week, with a Golden-crowned Warbler in Louisiana, only the third for the ABA Area away from Texas, the easy highlight. But Kirtland's Warbler in MD, Kentucky Warbler in AB, Fork-tailed Flycatcher in GA, and Nelson's Sparrow in NV all delighting birders in those places as well.
As we slide into October, we once again tough base with a handful of continuing rarities read more >>
Highlights this week include a Lesser Sand-Plover on the central coast of California, a very nice bird away from Alaska. Plus a hummingbird first for South Carolina and a spate of notable Northern Wheatear and Magnificent Frigatebird records in the midwest and east.
A Variegated Flycatcher in Florida is only the 8th for the ABA, plus 1st record Snowy Plover in New York and Yellow-footed Gull in New Mexico.
ABA Area rarities hanging around for another week include the young Common Shelduck (ABA Code 4) in read more >>
Hurricane Ida drops surprising tubenoses on Florida's Gulf coast. Plus potential 1sts in Labrador and Texas that come too late to chase, but not too late to appreciate.
Previously reported rare birds in the ABA Area continuing into this week include Berylline Hummingbird (ABA Code read more >>
The Berylline Hummingbird (ABA Code 4) continues in southeast Arizona as it has all summer, along with a read more >>
We're back after a week off with lots to report! Maine's 1st Masked Booby, Rhode Island's 1st Black-bellied Whistling Duck, and Roseate Spoonbill 1sts for New Hampshire and DC.
This week's report of continuing rare birds in the ABA Area is highlighted by the return read more >>
An Oriental Turtle-Dove in British Columbia this week is only the 6th record for North America away from Alaska, and Mississippi and Michigan enjoy 1st records.
The Berylline Hummingbird (ABA Code 4) in Arizona is the sole remaining rare bird in the read more >>
Continuing ABA Area rarities include Berylline Hummingbird (ABA Code 4) in Arizona and Little Egret (4) read more >>
Continuing rarities in the ABA Area include Berylline Hummingbird (ABA Code 4) in Arizona and a pair read more >>
The wandering Heermann's Gull makes a stop in South Carolina, the 6th state for which is represents a 1st. Plus Montana's 1st and 2nd records of Neotropic Cormorant come one right after another.
Notable birds continuing in the ABA Area into this week include Berylline Hummingbird (ABA Code 4) read more >>
Notable ABA rarities continuing into this week include Berylline Hummingbird (ABA Code 4) in Arizona, the read more >>
Noteworthy ABA Area rarities continuing into this week in the ABA Area include both Berylline Hummingbird read more >>
The list of continuing rarities in the ABA Area has been whittled to two this week, read more >>
Tufted Flycatchers return to southern Arizona along with summery weather. We also saw 1st records from Oregon, North Carolina, Iowa, and Nebraska this week.
Because of continuing COVID-19 cases in many states and provinces, the purpose of this report is read more >>
New Hampshire's 1st record Virginia's Warbler highlights a week that also saw Flame-colored Tanager in Texas and Garganey in New Brunswick.
A Phylloscopus warbler in Ontario is likely a Yellow-browed Warbler, a first for the province and an incredible vagrant bird for spring in North America.
Because of continuing COVID-19 cases in many states and provinces, the purpose of this report is read more >>
Because of continuing COVID-19 cases in many states and provinces, the purpose of this report is read more >>
Because of continuing COVID-19 cases in many states and provinces, the purpose of this report is read more >>
Because of continuing COVID-19 cases in many states and provinces, the purpose of this report is read more >>
Because of continuing COVID-19 cases in many states and provinces, the purpose of this report is read more >>
A young Inca Tern on the big island of Hawai'i would represent not only a 1st for the state, but for the ABA Area.
Because of continuing COVID-19 cases in many states and provinces, the purpose of this report is read more >>
Though COVID-19 cases in many states and provinces are declining, the purpose of this report is read more >>
Cold weather in Mexico could drive southern birds across the Rio Grande in to the ABA Area. Indeed, a remarkable Blue Bunting in San Antonio and a Yellow-faced Grassquit in Brownsville could be the first of many.
Lots of continuing ABA rarities are joined by 1st state records from Georgia (Heermann's Gull) and Connecticut (Great Skua). Plus Nova Scotia boasts a remarkable 5 individual Redwings!
Redwings continue to show on both coasts of the ABA Area, with one in British Columbia and two in Nova Scotia.
More thrushes to report, this time in Maine where two Redwings represent the state's 1st and 2nd records.
The thrush rush continues with Redwings in Newfoundland and New Brunswick! Also Little Gull in Mississippi and Black-headed Grosbeak in Maine.
Because of rising COVID-19 cases in many states and provinces, the purpose of this report is read more >>
Because of rising COVID-19 cases in many states and provinces, the purpose of this report is read more >>
Because of rising COVID-19 cases in many states and provinces, the purpose of this report is read more >>
A Hawfinch in Yukon Territory, a territorial 1st and a 1st for Canada, is a fantastic way to end the year in rarities. Plus 1st records for Tennessee, Virginia, and Delaware.
The ABA's 4th Spotted Rail in south Texas certainly feels like a 1st. It's joined by 1st records from Wisconsin, Nevada, and South Carolina.
A Tundra Bean-Goose highlights what has been an extraordinary week for rare birds in the Philadelphia area. Also Empidonax flycatchers represent 1st records for North Carolina and Nova Scotia.
The ABA's 7th Ruddy Ground-Dove in Key West, Florida, is the latest in a string of good birds in the Sunshine State. This week also saw 1st records of Cassin's Kingbird in Tennessee and Barnacle Goose in the District of Columbia.
A stunning male Blue Bunting in south Texas highlights the week that also sees south Texas-y 1sts like Great Kiskadee in Illinois and Couch's Kingbird in Virginia.
It's La Sagra's season in south Florida, with a bird showing up right on time in the Florida Keys. Also 1st records for Michigan, Prince Edward Island, and possibly Virginia.
It's a great week for wayward flycatchers in the ABA Area, with Variegated Flycatcher in Ontario, Cuban Pewee in Florida, and Newfoundland's 1st record of Vermilion Flycatcher. British Columbia, Ohio, and Idaho also host 1sts this week.
Virginia becomes the latest state in 2020 to host a Gray Heron, the farthest south this species has been seen in the ABA Area and only the 2nd Lower 48 record. Also, Ash-throated Flycatchers spread across the continent and Evening Grosbeaks hit Florida!
It's Novembird! And the month begins with a real bang in the form of Rhode Island's 1st Common Cuckoo, as well as 1st Yellow-eyed Junco for Kansas and Pacific Golden-Plover for Connecticut.
Arizona leads with continuing rarities for yet another week, headlined by Eared Quetzals (ABA Code 4) read more >>
Continuing rarities in the ABA Area come from the south, with the European Golden-Plover (ABA Code read more >>
