{"id":1446,"date":"2025-02-04T15:32:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T15:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adz.clicktoplay.net\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/top-5-once-in-a-lifetime-songbirds\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T15:35:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T15:35:57","slug":"top-5-once-in-a-lifetime-songbirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adz.clicktoplay.net\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/top-5-once-in-a-lifetime-songbirds\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Once In A Lifetime Songbirds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Top 5 Once In A Lifetime Songbirds<\/h1>\n

May 5, 2023\u00a0by\u00a0Kieu Trinh<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Vermilion Flycatcher is a beautiful, hard to find backyard bird in the U.S., and is a once in a lifetime bird to see! chrisncami \/ iStock \/ Getty Images Plus<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Have you ever seen any of these spectacular \u201clifer birds?\u201d<\/p>\n

To an avid birder, a lifer bird is a special event sighting, worthy of photos and sharing on social media. What it means is they observed a new (to them) species for the first time in their birding lives.<\/p>\n

Some keep a list of birds they hope to see in their lifetimes and will travel thousands of miles for a chance to make it happen. But sometimes, luck is on their side, and a rare bird simply appears when they least expect it.<\/p>\n

The continental U.S. and Canada are home to 700 bird species, so there\u2019s always a chance you\u2019ll see something \u201cnew,\u201d even if you\u2019re not actively looking. Here\u2019s a sampler of some of the stunning birds that have launched many a birder\u2019s quest:<\/p>\n

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To see a Green Jay in the U.S., you will have to travel to the southernmost part of Texas and hope you can catch a glimpse of this brilliant bird. BrianLasenby \/ iStock \/ Getty Images Plus<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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These brilliant blue and green corvids leverage sticks to reach insects under tree bark, making them one of the rare North American birds to use tools. They\u2019re found throughout Mexico. Still, birders travel to the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge nestled in the southeastern point of Texas just for a chance to see them.<\/p>\n

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Kirtland\u2019s Warblers can be found in the jack pine forests of Michigan and Wisconsin, traveling south to the Bahamas for winter. Carol Hamilton \/ iStock \/ Getty Images Plus<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Dark gray with a lemon-yellow breast, look for this beauty in the jack pine forests of Michigan and Wisconsin. But keep an eye out during its migration to the southeastern coast as they reach their winter home in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Travel south along the Gulf of Mexico and along the southern U.S. to catch a glimpse of this fiery red and deep brown bird. Neil bowman \/ iStock \/ Getty Images Plus<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Vermilion Flycatcher<\/h2>\n

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This scarlet bird with black wings and a face mask can be found along the rivers in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, along with the Gulf of Mexico. During courtship, the male presents the female with a butterfly or some other showy insect.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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While they live in many areas throughout the U.S., the Yellow-breasted Chat can be difficult to find as it lives in dense, shrubby habitats. WilliamSherman \/ iStock \/ Getty Images Plus<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yellow-breasted Chat<\/h2>\n

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While widespread across the continental U.S., you have to look hard to catch sight of these striking little birds. They spend their summers in dense, shrubby habitats, searching for spiders and other insects.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Top 5 Once In A Lifetime Songbirds May 5, 2023\u00a0by\u00a0Kieu Trinh \u00a0 The Vermilion Flycatcher is a beautiful, hard to find backyard bird in the U.S., and is a once in a lifetime bird to see! chrisncami \/ iStock \/ Getty Images Plus Have you ever seen any of these spectacular \u201clifer birds?\u201d To an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adz.clicktoplay.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adz.clicktoplay.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adz.clicktoplay.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adz.clicktoplay.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adz.clicktoplay.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adz.clicktoplay.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1465,"href":"https:\/\/adz.clicktoplay.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adz.clicktoplay.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adz.clicktoplay.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adz.clicktoplay.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}