Hunted in Starr county couple of times in the 90's and saw them. Pretty birds.
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When I lived in Kingsville, Tx in the late 70’s to early 80’s we had a to. Of them in town. Very pretty bird. Kinda on the mean side like a Mockingbird.
We have a couple feeders but our winter birds are pretty boring: a couple types of sparrows, house finches, Oregon juncos, and magpies. This winter that's it. We don't even have the collared doves that we've had in past winters. A half dozen quail have wandered by a couple times but most of the time they're somewhere else.
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I’ve never seen one before. Beautiful bird, it almost looks like something tropical other than the Jay shaped head and beak.
I think they are a more tropical bird. This is pretty far north to be seeing them.
Another bright spot this year is the lack of grackles. Not seen many of them. Or the brown head cowbirds either.
Do they come up from MX, Barry? I've not seen them down here in the south of south.
yes, don't think the range is much farther north than south tx. Pretty cool birds had one land on my arrow and check me out while I was in the tree stand
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