Hi Tweets,

I did a web search for more info on the Oriental Turtle-Dove a couple days
ago and stumbled across the "PEEP" blog from the American Birding
Association. It's interesting enough to read about rare bird sightings from
across North America but each posts contains additional information about
the highlighted species. They post whenever a bird of interest is found.

The URL is http://birding.typepad.com/peeps/rare_birds/.

If you have a Gmail account, it's easy enough to sign-up via Google Reader.
I didn't want to have yet another website to check so I signed up for a
free service that automatically emails me recent posts. You can sign-up for
up to five RSS feeds at http://www.feedmyinbox.com/ for free. An example of
a sent email is below.

Another website I peruse periodically is "North American Stop Press Rarity
Photos Page" on Surfbirds.com. Users upload photos of both North American
and state rarities.
http://www.surfbirds.com/cgi-bin/gallery/display.cgi?gallery=gallery10

<http://www.surfbirds.com/cgi-bin/gallery/display.cgi?gallery=gallery10>For
what it's worth.

--
Adam Sedgley
S e a t t l e, WA
sedge.thrasher [at] gmail [dot] com

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Brown Jay - San Ygnacio,
Texas<http://birding.typepad.com/peeps/2010/01/brown-jay-san-ygnacio-texas.html>
January 22, 2010 at 11:14 AM
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Bill Drummond reported a Brown Jay (*Cyanocorax [Psilohinus] morio*) from
the tower at San Ygnacio on 21 January. The site is the old Seedeater
Sanctuary at the base of Washington Street. Although it is an ABA Code-3
bird, Brown Jay reports are few in recent years from Texas.

Brown Jay was first sighted in the U.S. in June 1972 at Falcon Dam by Wally
Summer (*Birding 5: 10*) and first confirmed by photographic evidence in
June 1974. It is a (former) resident from the Lower Rio Grande Valley
(between Rio Grande City and San Ygnacio) south to western Panama (*Texas
Ornithological Society Handbook of Texas Birds*, Lockwood and Freeman). In
its range, Brown Jay occurs in two color morphs that appear to be random in
occurrence, a white-tipped morph, mostly from arid regions, and a
brown-tailed morph from more humid areas. The white-tipped morph was
formerly treated as a separate species, *C. mexicanus*. Flocks of Brown
Jays are known to occupy the same range for long time periods and then
scatter and join different flocks (*HBW, Volume 14*), which might explain
why the are irregular in south Texas. It is a species that has benefited
from forest fragmentation and is currently expanding its range in Panama and
Costa Rica.
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