Tropical Kingbird

Wendy Sawyer

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Oct 30, 2019, 3:29:08 PM10/30/19

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We first heard this bird on the Hadley Lake Road in East Machias, ME on October 29, 2019....it almost sounded to us like a tree frog in the beginning...we knew it was something that we had never heard before....we finally located it on a telephone wire...we took several photos, thinking that it was the Great crested Kingbird...so we didn't hang around to watch it for long, as we had seen one before....we waited until this morning to look at the bird on the computer, when we realized that it was not a Great crested, we posted it to a bird group that we belong to on Facebook where it was identified as a Tropical Kingbird

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RALPH ELDRIDGE

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Oct 30, 2019, 4:57:13 PM10/30/19

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There is currently another Tropical / Couch's Kingbird in Cambridge Narrows, New Brunswick, not much over 120 miles away.

Wendy Sawyer

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Oct 31, 2019, 3:27:29 AM10/31/19

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That is pretty cool!!

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