Alan Contreras and Craig Turner are co-finders of an extremely rare bird in northeastern Oregon. Little Bunting, an Eurasian Asian species of northern latitudes and northern attitudes.
Click here for picture. OBOL, Oregon Birds Online, email listserve has details. The bird is in Joseph, Wallowa County.
Posted by: atowhee | January 28, 2013
MAJOR OREGON RARITY
Posted in birding, birds, Eurasian birds, migratory birds, natural history, oregon, rarities, vagrants | Tags: Little Bunting, Wallowa County
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all these birds look alike . . . just call them sparrows if they are small and brown, jays are blue, cardinals red, jayhawks from Kansas and play b’ball, falcons live in GA. you get my drift. BTW, bunting is as baseball play.
By: Photograham on January 28, 2013
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