Crippling MEGA in Texas

[XemaSab]

White-crested Elaenia on South Padre Island.

First ABA record, first AOU record, possible first Northern Hemisphere record.

Native to birch forests in Patagonia.

Epic.

[semillama]

1. I saw that on IDFrontiers. Great record!

Makes me wish I was independently wealthy...

[StClone]

2. "White-crested Elaenia" Gone

My group was putting together a trip when word came it hasn't been seen for two days. I put the the name in quotation marks because in my experience there may be a lot of splits within the species collectively called White-crested.

[semillama]

4. Check Sibley's blog post on it, a good round up of what is known about it

http://sibleyguides.blogspot.com/

There's photos and recordings here: http://www.martinreid.com/Main%20website/wcelaenia.html

[XemaSab]

5. I heard about it from Martin's GF who called me at

7:30 sunday morning. x(

:P

[Maestro]

3. Wow!

I won't be back down there until this summer. Man, what a find!