Flame-Colored Tanager: The Holy Grail of Midwest Birding?
Flame-colored Tanagers are native to Mexico and Central America and they had only ever been seen in the states of Texas and Arizona, before one showed up way out of its range in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We travel to Milwaukee to look for this mega rarity, but will we be able to find it?
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Congratulations! What a gorgeous bird! I imagine when she gets back home, she will have plenty of stories to tell her bird friends about how friendly the people in Wisconsin are who all came out to welcome her!
Great video! Was great to meet you out there and appreciate the shout out to me and my wife. 👍🏼👍🏼🔥
@BadgerlandBirding
Жыл бұрын
Great meeting you as well and thanks for the great find!
@Dcrofton
Жыл бұрын
Most definitely! Glad she stayed around and you all we able to see her!
Lucky that a knowledgeable birder was able to identify it. If I saw it I’d be “ oh cool a yellow bird” and keep walking. Makes you wonder how many rare birds just go totally unnoticed or unappreciated
Such an epic bird 🤌
@BadgerlandBirding
Жыл бұрын
Yeah that Willet was special
@snowyowl5556
Жыл бұрын
@@BadgerlandBirding 🤣
Imagine being that tanager, coming all that way from where you live, where your treated like a normal civilian. And then coming North and being a celebrity super star, its insane to me. Great video guys! 🙂
The second I saw it reported, I knew I'd be seeing a video from you guys on it. Great job capturing the chaos and excitement when a large group is scrambling to spot a rarity!
Great video. Always love the videos in which you twitch a rare bird 😊
You should really go to Magee Marsh sometime during May 5 to May 14. This is the date range of the biggest week in American birding. It is such a cool experience with warblers literally falling from the sky. Thanks for the content and I always look forward to the newest video, especially warblers!❤🐦
@wheeling827
Жыл бұрын
I'm going on Thursday the 11
Now I feel fortunate that I got it as soon as I arrived!
@BadgerlandBirding
Жыл бұрын
That’s always best! Haha
When I saw the reports of the tanager in Milwaukee I was like "Oh! I bet Badgerland Birding is gonna post a video about it " :) I had a similar-ish experience with a Western Tanager here in NE Ohio. I had gone to the guy's house where it had been, was about to leave, and it showed up. Great video guys!
I knew I should've called into work today.
That’s awesome ! That’s the only North American Tanager I haven’t gotten. Maybe one day. Congrats to you guys 🙂
Glad you guys were able to see it. I struck out twice.
@BadgerlandBirding
Жыл бұрын
Brutal! A friend of ours was there for 7.5 hours yesterday and never saw it.
Wow! What a treat! Congrats!
That’s an amazing find!
NICE! I love birds! Thanks for sharing! So interesting.
A few days ago when I saw the eBird ABA alert for the Tanager I knew to expect a video from you guys about it soon! Congrats on seeing it!
@BadgerlandBirding
Жыл бұрын
Your wish is our command
Congratulations! And thanks for this. Once again, you two have created a very entertaining video. Your wonderful videography and narration/story-telling skills have turned a rare bird sighting into an adventurous short film! Wish I could have made it up from the Chicago area. I see from eBird reports today it is still there, however, so....maybe.
@BadgerlandBirding
Жыл бұрын
Thank you very much! We appreciate your kind words!
Very cool video guys. Thanks. Watching in the UK.
That’s awesome ! 👍
I'm so happy you guys got it 👍
That's a crazy good bird, well done. Being from Texas though, it sounds so funny hearing y'all get excited about a willet.
@BadgerlandBirding
Жыл бұрын
We love a good willet up here
Great video, congrats on the lifer! Hopefully she eventually makes her way back south.
I'm pretty dag on sure we have one here in North Middletown, KY! I noticed one foraging in our yard early this morning and it flew to what we didn't see at first but her baby! It must have fallen from my grandmother's tree in her front yard. Absolutely beautiful! I've done a lot of research and this one is pretty spot on!
@BadgerlandBirding
Жыл бұрын
That would be a huge find if it was. I’m thinking one of the oriole species could be your culprit. Check out the female Baltimore Oriole.
@darylbernard2616
Жыл бұрын
Invariably when a legit rare bird gets reported, others come out if the woodwork and say they also have one near them. But they don’t. Rare birds are rare birds because they are rare. And Flame-colored Tanager in the US outside of Texas or Arizona is more than rare - it’s MEGA rare.
You guys never miss with these videos! Great video as always! Congrats on finding this beautiful bird!
congrats on getting this insane mega. my friends and I showed up like 20 minutes after it was last seen :'( so it goes haha
Just got the Vermillion Flycatcher that’s in Michigan today the midwest is just firing on all cylinders this spring
@BadgerlandBirding
Жыл бұрын
Congrats!
What a lovely bird! I do wonder though - is she going to be OK? If the species is native to places so much warmer and dryer, hope she can find what she needs, feed up, and get herself back home. I'm assuming the bird got swept up north by unusual winds or the like? The willet was very cute too!
@Just_shush_now
Жыл бұрын
It’s common for vagrant species to die- we get American species in the UK and sadly it’s more likely that they’ll die here then get back to America. However as these species lives in Mexico which is part do the mainland of North America means that it’s always possible that it can make it back. We have a lot of overshoots from France and med in the UK and due to UK being quite close to France and the other countries to our east means it’s quite likely that a bird will make it back.
@BadgerlandBirding
Жыл бұрын
Hard to say! She is still present and actively feeding though, which is a great sign.
congrats on a great bird....
Nice job boys
@BadgerlandBirding
Жыл бұрын
Thanks J Breezy
Nice chase.
We have a grey headed lapwing in the UK, I went to see a white tailed lapwing that lives in the Middle East and southern Siberia last year and that had been seen in the UK around 9 times before- with the last sighting having been in 2011 which was 10 years prior. However the grey headed lapwing is a species of the extreme central-eastern Asia and this is the first one that’s ever been sighted in the UK- sadly it’s slightly to far for me to get to so I’m just hoping it moves south like the WTL did.
If I was that bird I would head for the border asap ! Paparazzi got him covered up !
Wow I've never seen a twitch that big
I have yet to experience a chase like this yet. Did you get a positive sound ID too? Pretty cool to see so many people excited in one place
@BadgerlandBirding
Жыл бұрын
Both times I saw it, it never vocalized
GLAD YOU GOT TO SEE THE TANAGER. QUESTION DO YOU THINK IT WILL BE ABLE TO SURVIVE IT IS WAY OUT OF IT'S COMFORT ZONE
@BadgerlandBirding
Жыл бұрын
Hard to say, but it’s still present and actively feeding which is a great sign!
Maybe it will stay? Visiting family near Madison next month!
@BadgerlandBirding
Жыл бұрын
Appears to have moved on now 😔
@wildaboutbirds71
Жыл бұрын
@@BadgerlandBirding oh well! Good job I saw one in Madera Canyon but it would have been nice to see one so far from its native range. Congrats to you both on an amazing WI lifer!
We need a SCTA x FCTA hybrid
What's next for the Tanager? Does she stay there, or head south back home, that would be a long flight alone. Time Counselor
@BadgerlandBirding
Жыл бұрын
She has a lot of gnats to eat so maybe she will stay a while
Welcome to the world of twitching (I seen you have the highs and the lows of it - so great when it goes well)! As someone else has mentioned in the comments, we have a "first for Britain" here at the moment, a Grey-headed Lapwing, and I was lucky to catch up with it, together with a thousand or so of my closest friends ;-) kzread.info/dash/bejne/aKx20tGGXcy-ecY.html
What are the theories about why / how it got that far north? (Typing this while still watching the video, so I apologize if you cover this in the last half of the video.)
@BadgerlandBirding
Жыл бұрын
Nobody really knows for sure actually.
My Dad and I noticed that partridge seems to be more scarce the last few years. Are they on an endangered status? Or are we just looking in the wrong place? We live in Central Wisconsin.
@BadgerlandBirding
Жыл бұрын
Gray Partridge?
@ChristopherChack-ce2rx
Жыл бұрын
In my area. A ruffed Grouse is called a '' partridge '' this is what im referring to.
When I first saw this on your site I thought you guys have got to be wrong sure enough it is definitely a female flame colored which I've seen in Arizona quite a few times but how did this bird get so far out of place .
No this is not the Holy Grail The Abert's Towhee was 🤪
@BadgerlandBirding
Жыл бұрын
The Aberts Towhee wasn’t real
@pauraque
Жыл бұрын
@@BadgerlandBirding Well the FCTA doesn't necessarily have to be real either.