A uncommon chook was noticed in Corpus Christi and chook lovers imagine it is the primary sighting within the United States.
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Many chook lovers flocked to Corpus Christi after listening to a few uncommon chook being noticed within the Texas seashore city on Sunday, November 13, in keeping with a Facebook submit from Visit Corpus Christi. Texas birders imagine the sighting of the rarely-seen chook could also be one of many first within the United States.
The chook noticed was a Cattle Tyrant, in keeping with Visit Corpus Christi. The medium-sized flycatcher has a reasonably widespread vary in South America, in keeping with eBird. The chook is exclusive for usually being discovered on or close to the bottom, the place pairs or small flocks comply with grazing animals. It’s often present in open habitats, together with farmland and marshes.
Joan Holt, a chook fanatic, advised 3News that the chook had by no means been seen within the United States earlier than and occurred to be in downtown Corpus Christi final weekend. He drove to Corpus Christi from Port Aransas to see the chook after it was first noticed round Corpus Christi on Saturday.
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This is not the primary time chook lovers traveled to the Texas coast for a chook sighting. Galveston Island posted about an “extraordinarily uncommon” Mangrove Cuckoo sighting that occurred in May 2023. It was the primary sighting of the Mangrove Cuckoo within the Galveston space since 1982.
Outside of its small vary in Florida, the Mangrove Cuckoo is widespread from northern Mexico south by the West Indies and Central America to South America. The birds hardly ever stray from Mexico north into Texas and the Gulf Coast.
