Some additional details re: today's Couch's Kingbird at Abingdon Square: Photo showing the spread wing indicates that the bird is an adult male by the very pointed outer primary (P10):
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17932675 It also appears that P6 is slightly notched unlike the P6 on a Tropical Kingbird. Photo showing the relatively shallow tail fork, characteristic of an adult Couch's Kingbird: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17932677 It was wonderful to see this bird today. Thanks to everyone for the stream of updates on its location. Deborah Allen -----Original Message----- From: Doug Gochfeld Sent: Dec 26, 2014 10:01 PM To: "NYSBIRDS-L@cornell edu" Subject: [nysbirds-l] 12/26- Couch's & Cassin's Kingbirds (including Couch's AUDIO) Here are a couple of photos, and more importantly a video, of the Couch's Kingbird, taken early(ish) this morning, when the bird was on Hudson St.:https://www.flickr.com/photos/29840397@N08/ You can go directly to the video, in which the Kingbird calls repeatedly, here:https://www.flickr.com/photos/29840397@N08/15929914767/in/photostream/ The video will be embedded into this eBird list at some point soon, courtesy of vimeo (since the Flickr/eBird embedding seems buggy):http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S21034505 We also found the Cassin's Kingbird in the Community Garden at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn in the early afternoon, and spent time with it until ~1:40 PM. All in all a very pleasant day of birding in the city, thanks to vagrant kingbirds, glorious weather, and the MTA (NYC public transit system). Good Birding-Doug Gochfeld. Brooklyn, NY. -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
