Date: 6/8/25 5:02 am From: alison wagner <alikatofvt...> Subject: Re: [VTBIRD] List
wow! add these species to the other report with extremely rare birds and folks doing a big year will flock to Vermont! Keep using Merlin as an identifier instead of a tool and our economy will flourish!
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From: "Sally Laughlin" <sblaughlininvt...>
To: "Vermont Birds" <VTBIRD...>
Sent: Saturday, June 7, 2025 8:31:13 PM
Subject: Re: [VTBIRD] List
Yesterday on a Birdwalk here on the Krusch Preserve in Cambridge Merlin
went off the deep end and claimed a Cetti’s Warbler(southern Europe and
Africa) and an Oak Titmouse (California). First time it has hallucinated a
European species for me but just reinforces that it is a useful app and has
pretty sharp hearing but cannot be blindly believed. Must be hard on
begining birders who take it for gospel!
On Sat, Jun 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM Donald Clark <sapsbks...> wrote:
> Looks like they were using Merlin.
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jun 7, 2025, at 2:00 PM, Victoria Arthur <singtolive57...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, I'm also wondering why these birds from Mexico, Central and S
> America
> > are showing up in the rare bird alert as being in S Burlington. . Is that
> > real? Submitted by a Beth Coleman
> >
> >> On Sat, Jun 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM Sue Wetmore <
> >> <000006207b3956ac-dmarc-request...> wrote:
> >>
> >> Why did the rare bird alert not flag the birds listed that are not seen
> >> here in Vermont?
> >> Sue Wetmore
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPod
>
