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All: I have placed a fine photo of a (young male?) BRONZED COWBIRD on NS-RBA photos at the end of the Tanagers to Finches folder. It was present 27 June to 1 August this year on Seal Island, and photographed by Charles Kenny. This cowbird breeds from Central America to Mexico and bordering U.S.A., where its range has expanded in recent years. Strange to say, our first one occurred at the same feeder in early May 1991 and was well described by the residents (including Charles Kenny) as their "grackle with the red eyes." Our next was on CSI in late October 1997 and again well described by the CSI birders. Finally, one turned up dead in a Dartmouth backyard 8 July 2000, the specimen in the NS Museum of Nat. History. It is even more extraordinary that ours are almost the only records for the East north of s.e. U.S.A. The only one for New England appears to be a bird that turned up in Maine late October last year, and there seem to be no records for elsewhere in Atlantic Canada, Québec, or Ontario. This sure is the best place for vagrant birds in the East (tho' N.L. birders might argue)' Cheers, Ian Ian McLaren
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