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Curve-billed Thrasher
MOQUEUR À BEC COURBE
Toxostoma curvirostre (Swainson)
Accidental.
One of
the most remarkable rarities ever seen in Manitoba was the Curve-billed
Thrasher that frequented several feeders at St. Claude from early November 1998
until 4 April 1999. It was identified by Raymond Chattel, who was alerted by
the Dacquay and Hebert families who owned two of the feeders. News of this
visitor reached Winnipeg birders in March, and more than 20 observers were able
to see and photograph it on the 21st of that month.1,2 Amazingly,
another Curve-billed Thrasher spent the same winter under similar conditions at
Barrhead, Alberta. These two birds furnished the first two confirmed records of
this thrasher in Canada, far from its normal range in the southwestern U.S.A.
and northern Mexico. The species had previously been recorded as far north as
Minnesota, with an unconfirmed sighting in Saskatchewan.1
1 Koes 1999a; 2 NAB 53:223.
P.
Taylor
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