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Answer to the April Trivia Question

What is the easternmost county with an accepted record of Varied Thrush?

The vagrancy range of Varied Thrush is vast, with accepted records in all but a couple of the US states and Canadian provinces.

The westernmost record seems to come from Wrangel Island, Russia, right on the 180th meridian. The easternmost record comes from November 1982 in the county of Cornwall in southwest Britain, a bird of unknown sex lacking any orange in the plumage.

Barry Rossheim was the first to identify that record as the easternmost–you’ll soon be able to recognize him in the field by the dapper WINGS cap atop his head.

The May question will appear this weekend in the newest edition of the WINGS e-newsletter. Will you win this time?

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