Tropical Kingbird

Jeff Lewis photographed this Tropical Kingbird on 27 November 2005 near Lake Phelps, Washington Co., NC.

This bird was discovered by Ricky Davis on 19 November, "on the wires and shrubs in the immediate vicinity of the Tyson Grain Elevators at the beginning of the road that goes to the west end of the lake. DeLorme map has the road named Keep Rd. It turns off of Newland Road which runs from Roper to Cherry." He identified it as a Tropical because "the bill was definitely long and did not seem to be thick as in a Couch's. The back was also grayish green as opposed to greenish."