What Bird Is That Forum

This was one of my favorite threads. Here’s a Tennessee Warbler I found a few days ago

Marsh Sandpiper
Adak, AK
8/24/98
Second American record for the species.

A rather strange lifer for me from last month. I had seen a lot of these when I lived in the US but I wasn't a birder then. They have only moved to northern Guatemala in recent years, and still remain a very exciting rare sighting. Everyone managed to see them during the Christmas Bird Count activity at the Estación Biológico Las Guacamayas en El Petén.

Here are some of my favorite from recently https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/647651675 https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/647630505 https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/647053068 https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/644953508 https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/646646594

Had a pretty clear-cut Celata Orange-crowned Warbler the other day. Crazy how different they can look from our typical OCWA on the Pacific coast.

Aidan B wrote: Thu Jan 22, 2026 12:59 am Had a pretty clear-cut Celata Orange-crowned Warbler the other day. Crazy how different they can look from our typical OCWA on the Pacific coast.

Awesome!! I’ve been wanting to find a callable one here for so long now

Common Ringed Plover!!!

Just saw a Snowy Owl!!!

Aidan B wrote: Sun Jan 25, 2026 1:52 am Just saw a Snowy Owl!!!

In 1977, my brother photographed the bird that is, to this day, the only accepted record of the species in Louisiana. (Many saw it before he did.)

Owen Wilson's character in The Big Year "just couldn't seem to nail that sucker".

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/650234262


Tennessee Warbler

Riley county Kansas today continuing bird

Another continuing bird that feels kinda boring comparatively

Kansabirdguy wrote: Sun Feb 08, 2026 11:36 pm Another continuing bird that feels kinda boring comparatively

BORRRRRING!!!!!! QUICK!!! Revoke his birding license!

Kevin wrote: Mon Feb 09, 2026 3:22 pm

Kansabirdguy wrote: Sun Feb 08, 2026 11:36 pm Another continuing bird that feels kinda boring comparatively

BORRRRRING!!!!!! QUICK!!! Revoke his birding license!

Well that was compared to the above which was a second state record but I do love long tailed ducks

This black phoebe is rare for Central Washington it was also a lifer for me

Black phoebe by Deb Lewis, on Flickr

Continuing

Kansabirdguy wrote: Sun Mar 08, 2026 1:36 amContinuing

That's awesome!!! How many Kansas records are there? Can't imagine that there are very many, given how quickly they get rare north of the more tropical areas.

Aidan B wrote: Sun Mar 08, 2026 4:33 am

Kansabirdguy wrote: Sun Mar 08, 2026 1:36 amContinuing

That's awesome!!! How many Kansas records are there? Can't imagine that there are very many, given how quickly they get rare north of the more tropical areas.

Don't know the current count, but apparently the first was in August, 2011.

https://www.ksbirds.org/kos/bulletin/Vol63No3.pdf

Aidan B wrote: Sun Mar 08, 2026 4:33 am

Kansabirdguy wrote: Sun Mar 08, 2026 1:36 amContinuing

That's awesome!!! How many Kansas records are there? Can't imagine that there are very many, given how quickly they get rare north of the more tropical areas.

I think the fourth or sixth depending on how the three this winter are treated

Harris's Sparrow. Haven't seen one in 10 years so was real happy to get this one!

Rustic Bunting
Wales, AK
9/25/95