Hi All, Has anyone considered the possibility that this bird, first reported by Shai and Pat on 2 January, is the same individual that was widely reported in Bristol County, MA from 9 November - 15 December 2020?
The Massachusetts bird was ID'd as an immature, and the few photos I examined of that individual looked similar to the many photos of the Baldwin bird. The one audio recording of the Baldwin bird sounds similar to the many recordings of the one in MA, but if this is an immature, then the spectrograms don't even have to be an exact match if the bird is still learning its song repertoire (please correct me if I'm wrong). Here is the search I used on eBird to produce the reports. Not sure if you need to log in to see the actual query. https://ebird.org/map/spotow?neg=true&env.minX=-72.1743936079403&env.minY=40.95926453047936&env.maxX=-70.49485869583093&env.maxY=42.03817728084794&zh=true&gp=false&ev=Z&mr=on&bmo=11&emo=2&yr=range&byr=2019&eyr=2021 Thoughts, anyone? Spotted Towhee is a pretty rare find in the Northeast. I have not tried for this bird yet. Thanks, Karen Fung NYC -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
