Artict Bird Shows up in south Texas

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Story Created: Jan 6, 2010 at 1:16 PM CDT

Story Updated: Jan 6, 2010 at 1:16 PM CDT

CLAREVILLE, Texas (AP) - A bird usually found in the Arctic has
turned up in south Texas.
     
Willie Sekula with the Texas Bird Record Committee of the Texas
Ornithological Society on Tuesday confirmed the sighting of the
northern wheatear.
     
The thrush-like bird was first noted in late December in in
southwest Bee County, in an area near the community of Clareville,
about 50 miles northwest of Corpus Christi.
     
Sekula says the previous confirmed Texas sighting of the
northern wheatear, about the size of a mockingbird, was in 1994 in
the Laguna Atascosa (a-tuhs-KOH'-stuh) National Wildlife Refuge
near Rio Hondo.
     
The wheatear is known for its white rump and tail with an
inverted black T.
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Information from: Corpus Christi Caller-Times,
http://www.caller.com
     
     
(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press.  All Rights Reserved.)
     
AP-NY-01-06-10 0836EST

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