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Date Posted: 13:53:13 05/05/01 Sat
Author: Greg Links
Author Host/IP: d222.as2.told.oh.voyager.net / 216.28.49.222
Subject: Shiny Cowbird

While doing some work for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, we found and studied a SHINY COWBIRD for some time in an off-limits area of the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge.

Unfortunately, this bird is not chaseable at this point.

This is a bird that has only recently penetrated U.S. soil, most notably a small wintering flock in SW Florida. There have been extralimital sightings of this species since its original discovery near Naples (Briggs Nature Center for the snowbirds out there) along the Atlantic seaboard, north to Virginia, and perhaps even a record from Nova Scotia, although I cannot be sure of that. There have also been a handful of records from other Southeastern states, but this bird represents Ohio's first, and as far as I know, the Great Lakes Region's first.

Matt Anderson, Dr. Elliot Tramer, Eric Durbin and I all watched the bird for 20 minutes or more as it fed side by side with Red-winged blackbirds and a couple of grackles.

All of us agreed on its identification.

As with any extreme rarity, a photo or video is highly desirable, neither of which we obtained.

So, there it is.

Greg

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