Fwd: [eBird Alert] Kings County Rare Bird Alert details photos VARIED THRUSH

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From: <ebird-alert@birds.cornell.edu>
Date: Mon, Oct 27, 2025, 7:56 PM
Subject: [eBird Alert] Kings County Rare Bird Alert <hourly>
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*** Species Summary:

- Varied Thrush (2 reports)

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Varied Thrush (Ixoreus naevius) (1)
- Reported Oct 27, 2025 16:25 by Jordan Spindel
- Prospect Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6602841,-73.9689534&ll=40.6602841,-73.9689534
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S281708644
- Comments: "Mega seen with others by 5th st and PPW. Foraging in undergrowth like a robin, large thrush with blue back and orange/black underparts."

Varied Thrush (Ixoreus naevius) (1)
- Reported Oct 27, 2025 15:38 by Julius Marinov
- Prospect Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6602841,-73.9689534&ll=40.6602841,-73.9689534
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S281708351
- Media: 5 Photos
- Comments: "Wonderful vagrant to begin the  expected month of fun lingerers and vagrants (I guess other bombshells had been seen prior). Adult Halloween colored male seen well multiple times. Foraging upon acorns with white throated sparrows. Orange breast with a black necklace and orange spotting upon the wings. Photos taken"

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