Congratulations to Elwood Hain for identifying Yellow Warbler as the most widespread breeding Dendroica in North America! Elwood wins a WINGS cap–and you can, too, if you’re the first to answer the new trivia question correctly:
Which state or province has tallied record high Christmas Count numbers of all the following species: Golden-crowned Kinglet, Dusky Thrush, Red-throated Pipit, and Brambling?
Leave your answer here as a comment. The first correct answer, and the wittiest, most cogent, or most startling incorrect answer, will win the cap everybody who is anybody’s wearing.
I have to go with California. Alaska or British Columbia might be the most logical choices of where the birds show up, but California has more hard core Christmas counters, so I’ll go with CA. What do I win?
Alaska. Sarah Palin saw these from her backyard.
It hasta be Alaska!
Newfoundland and Labrador?
Washington state.
The Yukon?
From Roger Craik (mis-posted to a different Wingbeat entry):
Author: Roger Craik
Comment:
March Trivia – British Columbia
BC
British Columbia, I personally remember the Dusky Thrush & Brambling.
Nah,it hasta be Alberta. But probably will end up to be some place like Kansas
British Columbia. It was the only place that Dusky Thrushes were listed in the historical section of the CBC website.
Congratulations to all of you who knew that it was British Columbia, my adopted home province for the next couple of years! Roger Craik was the first to submit the correct answer, and Austin Saupe’s was the best incorrect response, I thought.
The new question, about the vagrancy pattern of Varied Thrush, is now up here at the Wingbeat and in the new WINGS newsletter. Give it a go!