ML41882391

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Media notes

NOTE: This is not my image; I copied it from a web-site that offers "wild", exotic, live birds for sale. I'm now checking on copyright limitations on this image.

Observation details

This bird was very hard to miss; was able to watch flitting from branch to branch for 10 min or so, then I left to fetch others to come see him. Nobody else relocated. Pie-bald, small Black bird with long streaming black tail and huge cone-shaped red bill. Black cap with white throat and lower face; back and wings black with wide white bar thru them. Theoretically might have been on vessel coming into NYHarbor; when saw land it bolted and flew ashore. Spectacular bird. I learned that this is a popular cage bird in Puerto Rico, where it has been introduced. Native to Africa.

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940 pixels x 705 pixels

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