{"id":4545,"date":"2021-08-21T11:37:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T16:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=4545"},"modified":"2021-08-21T11:37:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T16:37:30","slug":"4545-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/4545-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Think Flycatchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2153\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/western-kingbird.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2153\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/western-kingbird.jpg\" alt=\"Western Kingbird\" width=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2153\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2153\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Western Kingbird. Photo by M. Ferguson. (click to see the larger version)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;re always trying to guess what the next new bird for Montrose will be. It&#8217;s a fun game to play, though we&#8217;re usually wrong with our predictions. Montrose has an impressive 15 species of flycatchers to its credit, including several rare and uncommon species &#8211; Western Kingbird (regular), Cassin&#8217;s Kingbird (first state record), Say&#8217;s Phoebe (several records), and Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (several records). Montrose is clearly an excellent place for Tyrannids, and there are several excellent candidates we should be thinking about as fall approaches. These potentials include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gray Kingbird (many extralimital records in the Eastern United States, including three for Illinois)<\/li>\n<li>Tropical Kingbird (many extralimital records in the Eastern United States, including one for Illinois)<\/li>\n<li>Fork-tailed Flycatcher (well established pattern of vagrancy in the eastern United States, with several records for Illinois)<\/li>\n<li>Vermillion Flycatcher (multiple records for Illinois, including one from Lincoln Park)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are the most likely Tyrannids to show up, but there are a few less likely, though possible species like Variegated Flycatcher (a handful of eastern US records), Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher (a few eastern North American records), Thick-billed Kingbird (a few eastern North American records), and Hammond&#8217;s Flycatcher (multiple eastern North American records).<\/p>\n<p>The best way to prepare for vagrants is to keep an open mind about what&#8217;s possible and to brush up on field marks for these birds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re always trying to guess what the next new bird for Montrose will be. It&#8217;s a fun game to play, though we&#8217;re usually wrong with our predictions. Montrose has an impressive 15 species of flycatchers to its credit, including several rare and uncommon species &#8211; Western Kingbird (regular), Cassin&#8217;s Kingbird (first state record), Say&#8217;s Phoebe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[304,15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-tips","category-opinion","category-rare-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4547,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545\/revisions\/4547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}