RARE ARCTIC BIRD SPOTTED IN BEE COUNTY

Earlier this week, Willie Sekula with the Texas Bird Record Committee of the Texas Ornithological Society confirmed the sighting in Bee County of a Northern Wheatear, a bird usually found in the Arctic. The bird was first noted in late December near the community of Clareville, about 50 miles northwest of Corpus Christi.

According to Sekula, the previous confirmed Texas sighting of the Northern Wheatear was in 1994 in the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge near Rio Hondo.

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