Rare Bird Alert! Finding a European Fieldfare in Wisconsin!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- Every once in a while, a bird shows up in a place it's never been seen before. This was the case when a Eurasian Thrush species called a Fieldfare was spotted in Wisconsin. We made the nearly 6 hour drive to go see if we could find this species that was not supposed to be in the Badger State.
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I love birds! Something I see nearly everyday in the UK at winter, but is a first for Wisconsin!
Your happiness at finding the fieldfare was definitely Exhilarating
Such a lovely bird and to think how rare it is to see, so wonderful you and your friends got to see it after all that driving!
Thanks!
"Quiktrip please sponsor us" 😂 Congrats on such an INCREDIBLE find! So cool!
I just love the enthusiasm for these amazing feathered critters. They are endlessly fascinating and amusing.
I just love this! The longest I've traveled is an hour and forty-five mins to see a Northern Lapwing. I know that rush you guys felt. It never gets old when you chase and succeed. I wish you could come to NJ to see the Red-flanked Bluetail. She's still being seen. Birders have come from all over the country to see her. I'm so glad your channel showed up on my feed. I really enjoy it. Congratulations on a great day! 🎉🎉🎉
I would love to go see the Blue-tail and it’s been on my radar but I haven’t found a way to make a trip out there cost effective yet :/
@BadgerlandBirding It's a big ride from where you are. Birders have actually taken flights in. Lots of money. I'm very fortunate that it's only 12 miles from home for me. I went often. I hope you do come to see it before she departs. She was seen yesterday.
I love seeing the dedication that so many people have. I have met people that drive all over MN to see a certain bird.
i liked the Eurasian tree sparrow best. adorable
Kwik Trip really should sponsor you guys ! They and you represent Wisconsin at it's best !!
Congratulations! I'm originally from Wisconsin but now live in Bavaria. I'm looking forward to the return of the Wacholderdrosseln (Fieldfares) here in Erlangen. Unfortunately, the Eurasian Tree Sparrows (Feldsperlinge) are not as common as they used to be in our area.
3 hour drive several times over the years. For Sungrebe, Rufous-necked Wood Rail and a Common Crane all of these at Bosque Del Apache NWR near Socorro, NM
I drove from Louisiana to Maine to see puffins
Would you do it again? 👀
Fieldfares are back yard thrush in England and Ireland.
I'd say those field fares just wanted to go on a holiday 😊
I'm happy for you from Ireland 🇮🇪
Now that's a great road trip!! Congrats on getting that rarity - and grats to Nathaniel on THREE lifers in a day, that has to feel just fantastic :D
A friend of mine is taking up a little bit of nature photography, so she and I are discussing places in our area that we can adopt as a couple of "patches" - to go and just chill, see whatever birds or critters are there, and observe the plants too over the course of the year! I'm excited about it. Also trying to keep my eyes open for Killdeer - we saw some last spring, and I think maybe there's a handful of them that kind of stop over here on their way elsewhere. Heard two chickadees this morning in my yard! And there have been dozens of robins all over town for some reason. Early migration maybe?
It’s definitely starting early! Heard Killdeer, Sandhills are already back too!
Congrats to fieldfare! Here in sweden in autumn there is tousands of this bird sometimes!.
Great sightings. Would of loved to have been there. Did a 320 mile road trip around the first of February to try and find a Gray Hawk in Hurricane, Utah which was a first recorded sighting of one in the state. Spent two days looking for it and visited with the property owner where it had been seen. He showed me photos of it he took with his phone and stated that it was very tame and approachable, but unfortunately I couldn't find it.
Decided against making the drive myself because of how shy the bird is, but congrats! Seemed very exciting :)
Great video!!Congrats on the lifers.I would have been just as exhausted😅
Very nice record! In my country the furthest I ever have to drive is 5 hours for a bird.
Congrats on your road-trip for a lifer Fieldfare ☝ Here in the UK my longest road-trip was an overnight 550 miles from West London, via car ferry, to the Isle of Islay in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland to see a lifer 1stW drake Harlequin Duck. My wife & I enjoyed watching all your videos.
Glad you enjoyed seeing a Fieldie, one of my favourites. We take them for granted over here in the UK, along with Redwings. Love the vids btw.
Thank you!
That was great! Congrats!! 🥳🎉
The excitement was palpable, thanks for bringing us along!
Beauty sighting, congrats! I figure I'm about due for a lifer, send me some of your good luck!
Good job finding the fieldfare. I seen one also in northern Ontario in December. Was approximately 2 hours from my home. It hung around for 2-3 weeks in a small town and was seen by many people from the province. Wonder if it was the same bird? Enjoy your videos very much and look forward to them.
Hey, Mike! That’s cool! It’s possible. Would be pretty cool if it was!
Great thrush to get, we get quite a lot of them in the winter but their always nice to see.
I love the dedication! Birds are awesome
Congrats - this is what it is all about!
So pleased for you guys - while Fieldfare is common in the fall and winter here in the UK, it's always a real pleasure to see them and they have a really distinctive call. They're a harbinger of the autumn and are sorely missed when spring and summer are here. They're quite shy except in really cold/snowy conditions when they can suddenly appear in large flocks even in back yards: I got 42 in my garden one snowy winter. I love the transatlantic excitement at seeing each other's common birds as rare. I have a playlist of "American Birds in the UK" (th-cam.com/play/PLg-tppy6tnllAG2jt64wne0wkyA7KLLzC.html). Some are really getting quite frequent (especially waders like LB Dowitcher, Lesser Yellowlegs and Pectoral Sandpipers) and some ducks (Greater Scaup, Ring-necked Duck, American Wigeon, Lesser Scaup) others have mythical rare status, though freak conditions last September brought tons of cool American birds over: Bay-breasted Warbler, two Magnolia Warblers, Bobolinks, two Cape May Warblers, B&W Warblers etc etc. Most were in the far west of the UK and Ireland. Two seem to have stuck around over the winter: a Northern Waterthrush and a Myrtle/Yellow-rumped Warbler. I did what you did for the latter - on Saturday, I drove up to SW Scotland (6 hours each way) to see it. I've seen so many in the US, but to see one in your own country is so fantastic. I don't do the vlogging, but I do try to capture as many species (mostly rare birds for the UK) as I can on camera. It's great fun. Check out Alan Shaw's shaky late 1980s video of the Golden-winged Warbler that was found in a supermarket car park in 1989 and twitched by >3000 on its first day - this in the days before tech made getting bird news out much easier! Red-breasted Nuthatch, like the Golden-winged, remains a bird that's only been seen once on British shores.
Congrats on getting the Fieldfare, fantastic birds, and then seeing another two species we get here, though Tree Sparrow is rather rare these days, but Bohemian Waxwings were back again this winter.
Congrats on finding the Fieldfare! That's quite a drive. The most I've driven to find a bird is around 3 hours. I've gotten 4 life birds so far this year: Bullock's Oriole, Short-eared owl, Ross's Goose, and Wilson's warbler -- all in NC! I spent 3 hours yesterday in the wind and rain to find the warbler but found him eventually! It's always nice when you see a rare bird soon after arriving!
If I had randomly seen that, I would have thought it was some funky mutant robin. Congrats!
That’s fair! It’s very Robin-like
Wow its pretty!!
You are very lucky to have these birding friends. How did you meet them?
Pretty much just while I was birding we ran into each other
Wow, quite a gamble that paid off big time! I give you credit for making such a long trek. Glad it panned out for you. I think 3 hours is the longest I drove, which was to see the Ancient Murrelet. Totally worth it!
Fieldfare are very common where I live in the UK. In the field near my house there is huge flocks of Fieldfare and Redwing together, Has there ever been a Redwing near you?
I don’t believe in Wisconsin but recently one was spotted in Canada!
Really cool to see a very common european bird to make so much hype in the US. Last year an american nuthatch was found in germany and the hype was so crazy 😅. Greets Stefan
Haha! White-breasted or Red-breasted?
Yeah I even went to see that nuthatch from the Netherlands! I made a video about it th-cam.com/video/l5R0ljPvK8Q/w-d-xo.html
@@BadgerlandBirdingred-breasted
I dont believe it 😮😮
Congratulation on finding the fieldfare!
Such a cool rareity!!! It was absolutely worth the trip
Congrats!!!!🎉
Thanks!
As soon as I saw this on the Wisconsin RBA, I was wondering when you'd make a video. I can't believe it's been there for two weeks!
Yeah! Same here!
The ultimate in nerding. Thank you!
Last fall my dad saw a European Goldfinch at a bird feeder in Oak Creek
Nice! They’ve been moving around that area for a few years now
What a Great Successful Trip 👍... Thanks For Sharing ...
Thanks for watching!
That was assume. Great work.
It was great meeting you guys!
Great meeting you and your dad, Bode!
Pretty cool
Congrats!
And then a Sharp-Shinned grabbed him...
Oof, that would’ve been brutal 😂 a few days later there was a Merlin hunting in the area 😬
I recall a peregrine catching and eating a vagrant Hoopoe in front of the visitor centre at a local reserve here in the uk. 😱
Wow that’s awesome
Not too, too far from you 👀
@@BadgerlandBirding yeah!
I get these, I'm in the UK
Score 👍
Whats a “lifer”? :)
A lifer is the term for a species you’re seeing for the first time in your life- people will also say “Life bird”.
@@BadgerlandBirding I love this channel and you young men help me have hope for the future!! I love animals too, I rescued a sparrow and she decided to stay with me! She is a wonderful friend.
KLAKSON! KLAKSON! KLAKSON!
I don’t recognize the name of the bird!!
Yeah it doesn’t even sound like a bird 😂
*wakes up* "5"... *is out again*
It’s said that was the best sleep of Nathaniel’s life
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