Bird of the Month

Bird Of the Month: July 2022

Curlew Sandpiper Curlew Sandpiper, Stratford, CT, 7/18/2022. Photo by Frank Mantlik Very few bird species could top Curlew Sandpiper (CUSA) as the best rare bird of the month of July in Connecticut this year.  Frank Mantlik found it on July 18th, and recently noted that this CUSA is the only one currently in the USA … Read more

Bird of the Month: February 2022

Common (Kamchatka) Gull During January 175 bird species were added to this year’s eBird CT “state year list”, and in February only four new species were added to our state year list (bringing the state year list up to 179 species). Here are those four species, in the proposed rank order of noteworthiness (regardless of how … Read more