davidandkaren
Unpaid Blogger
A debate broke out on a non-birding forum over the claim by someone of seeing a California Condor in the Columbia River Gorge.
This morphed into a debate about rare bird sightings - and someone claiming that a Flamingo used to live in Stehekin Washington (A small town in the North Cascades, far away from the ocean)
No photos or evidence of course, but someone did find this: an article in a respected birding publication, the Murrelet, that describes two Flamingos being spotted in Grays Harbour in 1975
The first thing I did was check the refuge website and there is no mention of these birds ever being seen there.
Looking at eBird - I can find no record of a Flamingo north of the Galapagos or outside the Gulf coast.
So what do the experts say?
This morphed into a debate about rare bird sightings - and someone claiming that a Flamingo used to live in Stehekin Washington (A small town in the North Cascades, far away from the ocean)
No photos or evidence of course, but someone did find this: an article in a respected birding publication, the Murrelet, that describes two Flamingos being spotted in Grays Harbour in 1975
The first thing I did was check the refuge website and there is no mention of these birds ever being seen there.
Looking at eBird - I can find no record of a Flamingo north of the Galapagos or outside the Gulf coast.
So what do the experts say?