Good morning all, Yesterday afternoon (9/25) it appears Doug Pierzina found and photographed a Tropical/Couch’s Kingbird on the small loop of the auto tour of the Big Stone NWR in Lac Qui Parle County. Information and photos can be found on his RQD here: https://moumn.org/cgi-bin/rqd.pl?rec_id=3173 This would be the 3rd state record of this slashy combo after the 2011 St Louis record, and (pending acceptance) this years Stearns record. MN has only 1 accepted record of Tropical Kingbird from Scott County in 2015 and zero accepted records of Couch’s Kingbird.
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