Date: 4/20/25 10:40 am From: Jeremy Cohen <jeremy3cohen...> Subject: Sora taken by red-shouldered hawk plus unusual migrant birds in Fayetteville
The storms caused an exceptional amount of unusual migrant birds to stop in Fayetteville, many of which were seen at the University experimental farm yesterday and today. At that one spot, birders found multiple yellow headed blackbirds, upland sandpipers, lark sparrows, a grasshopper sparrow, prairie and palm warblers, and hundreds of Franklin's gulls along with Forster's terns and many shorebirds. One highlight today was a red-shouldered hawk catching a Sora (a species never previously observed at this heavily birded spot) right in front of a few of us. The sora had been hiding unbeknownst to us in a flooded field, but not well enough. You can see the photos on the checklist - https://ebird.org/checklist/S227437877 See you out there, Jeremy
Jeremy Cohen, Ph.D. Associate Research Scientist Yale Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
