Now this is a bird worth seeing! Get yourself to Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge in Meigs County, Tennessee!
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy and Desmond Shearwater. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.
I successfully chased that Hooded Crane in Idaho in April 2010. Very cool bird. It’s on my eBird life list. And since I’m not competing for ABA area birding dominance, I’m not too concerned about whether I should or should not count it due to questionable provenance.
While I may not be a twitcher cranes are birds I might make an exception for.
I wish I was in Tennessee right now!
As of this morning, it was still there. What a thrill! (even if it doesn’t turn out to be “countable”)