Several days ago, a tropical kingbird was sighted inward southwest Metro Denver, only W of South Platte Reservoir. As 1 mightiness expect, it has since attracted birders from throughout the share in addition to I made my pilgrimage yesterday afternoon (after all, the place is only a few miles due south of our Littleton farm).
Though the weather condition was far from tropical (cloudy, mutual depression temperature in addition to misty), the large, attractive flycatcher was gleaning insects from the side of a building, stopping to residuum on a barbed wire fence. Joined past times a Say's phoebe in addition to a modest flock of household finches, the rare vagrant seemed unfazed past times the raw, autumn weather.
Permanent residents of Mexico, Central America, northern South America in addition to extreme South Texas, tropical kingbirds equally good breed inward southeastern Arizona. While well-nigh birds take toward the Tropics inward winter, to a greater extent than or less convey long traveled northward along the Pacific Coast; well-nigh terminate inward California but to a greater extent than or less convey been sighted inward the Pacific Northwest, equally far N equally southeast Alaska. Other vagrants convey turned upward inward valleys of the Intermountain West, along the Atlantic in addition to Gulf Coasts in addition to fifty-fifty inward the Great Lakes region. Most of the far-flung vagrants convey been encountered during the saltation or fall; arguing remains equally to whether to a greater extent than or less of the sightings (especially those inward the East) were of Couch's Kingbird.
Though the weather condition was far from tropical (cloudy, mutual depression temperature in addition to misty), the large, attractive flycatcher was gleaning insects from the side of a building, stopping to residuum on a barbed wire fence. Joined past times a Say's phoebe in addition to a modest flock of household finches, the rare vagrant seemed unfazed past times the raw, autumn weather.
Permanent residents of Mexico, Central America, northern South America in addition to extreme South Texas, tropical kingbirds equally good breed inward southeastern Arizona. While well-nigh birds take toward the Tropics inward winter, to a greater extent than or less convey long traveled northward along the Pacific Coast; well-nigh terminate inward California but to a greater extent than or less convey been sighted inward the Pacific Northwest, equally far N equally southeast Alaska. Other vagrants convey turned upward inward valleys of the Intermountain West, along the Atlantic in addition to Gulf Coasts in addition to fifty-fifty inward the Great Lakes region. Most of the far-flung vagrants convey been encountered during the saltation or fall; arguing remains equally to whether to a greater extent than or less of the sightings (especially those inward the East) were of Couch's Kingbird.
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