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Lazuli bunting
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This lazuli bunting appeared at a bird feeder near 53.716534, -114.869136 on May 24, 2014. It stayed for one day and did not visit the feeder again. This species has not been seen at this site before. E-bird.org records only one sighting further north in Alberta at Beaver Crossing in the St. Paul area on June 5, 2014. Sightings were also recorded west of Fort St. John, BC in June, 2014 and at Chetwynd, BC in 2006. These birds may be just vagrants outside of their normal range, or they may represent a pattern of species expanding their ranges northward in response to global climate change and the warming of the North. This photo was taken at about 10:30 a.m. The bird was quite flighty and did not spend much time on the feeder, if other birds were present.
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- 2014-05-24
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