If so, then this bird overshot its wintering grounds and arrived in Minnesota. Howell has a nice discussion and other examples of such vagrancy in his book Rare Birds of North America. Fork-tailed Flycatcher is another species that seems to do this, and note there is one now in Indiana.
Paul Paul Budde [email protected] <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: [email protected] </div><div>Date:07/03/2015 10:28 AM (GMT-07:00) </div><div>To: [email protected] </div><div>Subject: [mou-net] Fw: [BIRDWG01] Minnesota Tropical Kingbird </div><div> </div>Peter Pyle's observations. Interesting. -----Original Message----- From: Peter Pyle Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2015 2:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BIRDWG01] Minnesota Tropical Kingbird I'm not certain of this, but it seems both the Minnesota and the Ontario kingbirds may be on molt cycles reflecting an Austral rather than a Boreal breeding and migrating populations. The Minnesota bird is completing a molt and I thought that the Ontario bird may still have juvenile outer rectrices and outer primary (but not worn enough to be a year old). Better photos of each, with open wings and tails, would help determine molt progression and age. For northern Tropical Kingbirds (occidentalis) we would expect to see molt patterns like this in Nov-Dec on the winter grounds (both preformative and prebasic) and not June. Something to consider when encountering and documenting summer kingbirds in North America. Peter At 10:59 AM 7/2/2015, R.D. Everhart wrote: >Hey everyone- > > I went out to chase the Tropical Kingbird that has been seen at >Murphy-Hanrahan Park south of Minneapolis/St. Paul and got a few >photos that I have posted here: > >http://minnesotabirdnerd.blogspot.com > > The bird was seen off and on between about 7 am and 9:30 am. It >did not vocalize while I was there. > >Roger Everhart >Apple Valley, MN > > > > > >Archives: http://listserv.ksu.edu/archives/birdwg01.html Archives: http://listserv.ksu.edu/archives/birdwg01.html ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
