A really crazy extralimital record from Maine .. but could have been anywhere ...

[Phil Davis]

Hi MD/DC Birders:

Dave Bridge forwarded me the following, sent to him from his son in Maine ...

Wild!

Phil

From:  David Bridge <bridg...@earthlink.net>
To: Phil Davis <pda...@ix.netcom.com>,
Subject: Roadrunner in Maine
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2021 12:11:56 +0000

Not only do birds fly to new locations, or ride the Queen Mary across the Atlantic Ocean (Gray Catbird), but now they are hitching rides on Moving Trucks, across country!

Another "issue" for the "Records Committees".

Dave

 

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Subject: Roadrunner in Maine

 I saw this in one of my news feeds. Wesbrook is outside Portland, ME.
 


 

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[Strobel, Warren]

Hilarious! I think since it's human-assisted travel, it wouldn't be technically countable???

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[sus...@verizon.net]

Haha.  My first roadrunner was in 1974 on the back of my grandpa’s pickup truck outside of Albuquerque, NM.  Maybe the Maine one is a descendant.

David Gersten

Silver Spring, MD


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[pbudde]

Warren,

Ship-assisted counts per ABA rules if the bird was not constrained.  Had the move occurred in an open pick up, I guess the Roadrunner would be countable, but it appears it was in a closed van, so uncountable.

Paul

Washington, DC

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