I'm a bit surprised people aren't talking about this more. Isn't it exceptionally unlikely that this bird is here naturally? It's not as if this is a vagrant migrating songbird. Wouldn't we have seen reports of the bird between where it is now and where its natural range is? It seems most likely to me that this is an escaped captive bird. Has anybody investigated this possibility?

Matt Joras

On Jun 15, 2015 8:25 PM, MT <Tomboulian at comcast.net> wrote:
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> This bird in Skykomish seems so unlikely...I don?t suppose we can prove provenance.
> ?
> But I know people out there in that area that keep all kinds of exotic pets, legal and not..
> ?
> Mark Tomboulian