Love your content. Please keep it up! Reminds me of the PBS show Outdoor Wisconsin. In regards to rare birds we certainly cause a ruckus when we all show up to a neighborhood
I don't think we unload cattle in our port though. It is primarily petroleum imports. We do export a lot of grain through here but that would mean came over on an empty grain ship
We drove down from the Hill Country area and saw it in Jan and that was our first stop before we even checked into our condo! No luck on day one. The next day we went to lunch at the Oyster Bar and then staked out the dumpster. When I saw a lady run by me like her pants were on fire carrying a giant camera I jumped up and followed her! Success! He was on the patio of the Executive Surf Club. I met some birders from Arizona, Michigan and Florida who were in the crowd photographing it.
Maybe there were insects, a food source on the cattle ship that attracted the bird. "Pairs or small flocks of Cattle Tyrants follow grazing animals for flushed prey even hitching rides on these animals". So they hang around cattle. This one hitched a long ride? 😂
After I nice morning birding Bee County, I wandered over to Corpus Christi to look for the tyrant. I spent at least an hour looking for it, until it finally showed up at one of it's favorite restaurant courtyard feeding grounds. Eating a crab burger and fries w/ a shiner bock and watching the tyrant nonchalantly feed, while defending my food against the great-tailed grackles is up there in unique and wonderful memories.
Aw, he's just on a nice long vacation, hehe! I do wonder about the "on a ship" theory though. I mean... if he got onto a ship, why would he not just fly right back off the ship when it sailed off? Might he have gotten disoriented? The idea makes total sense for me as a land bound critter - if I somehow found myself on ANY boat, I'd be thoroughly confused and probably stay put until I felt I had a good chance of getting on land. (I mean, I'm also a human and would talk to the crew, haha!) But for a flying creature it seems intuitive that they'd just...fly. An intriguing little fellow!!
Here's what I posted: Maybe there were insects, a food source on the cattle ship that attracted the bird. "Pairs or small flocks of Cattle Tyrants follow grazing animals for flushed prey even hitching rides on these animals". So they hang around cattle. This one hitched a long ride? 😂
@@JacobDoesStuff-hq6gp I don't think so. I think they just decided since they couldn't know for sure that they weren't ready to accept it. I still think it came over on a ship on its own.
Evidence is very strong that it was ship-assisted and it may explain the recent colonization of Panama by Cattle Tyrants as well, though I don't believe that is proven yet.
Love your content. Please keep it up! Reminds me of the PBS show Outdoor Wisconsin. In regards to rare birds we certainly cause a ruckus when we all show up to a neighborhood
Glad you enjoy it! Thanks for watching!
Really cool bird. That is quiet a rarity. Great video my friend. Greets Stefan
Thanks for watching, Stefan!
One of the most interesting parts of birding is seeing a super vagrant sighting like this. Great video guys.
Ooh, almost 30 thousand! It’s been fun to watch the growth of your channel and the well-deserved increase in subscribers. All the best.
I bet it came over on a livestock ship, there are some pretty large cattle transporters, and Brazil produces a lot of beef.
That’s certainly a possibility!
I don't think we unload cattle in our port though. It is primarily petroleum imports. We do export a lot of grain through here but that would mean came over on an empty grain ship
We drove down from the Hill Country area and saw it in Jan and that was our first stop before we even checked into our condo! No luck on day one. The next day we went to lunch at the Oyster Bar and then staked out the dumpster. When I saw a lady run by me like her pants were on fire carrying a giant camera I jumped up and followed her! Success! He was on the patio of the Executive Surf Club. I met some birders from Arizona, Michigan and Florida who were in the crowd photographing it.
Maybe there were insects, a food source on the cattle ship that attracted the bird. "Pairs or small flocks of Cattle Tyrants follow grazing animals for flushed prey even hitching rides on these animals". So they hang around cattle. This one hitched a long ride? 😂
After I nice morning birding Bee County, I wandered over to Corpus Christi to look for the tyrant. I spent at least an hour looking for it, until it finally showed up at one of it's favorite restaurant courtyard feeding grounds. Eating a crab burger and fries w/ a shiner bock and watching the tyrant nonchalantly feed, while defending my food against the great-tailed grackles is up there in unique and wonderful memories.
Wow! That’s a cool looking bird. I bet that was a sight seeing which a rarity as such. Wish I was close, I would have definitely went to see it
Aw, he's just on a nice long vacation, hehe!
I do wonder about the "on a ship" theory though. I mean... if he got onto a ship, why would he not just fly right back off the ship when it sailed off? Might he have gotten disoriented? The idea makes total sense for me as a land bound critter - if I somehow found myself on ANY boat, I'd be thoroughly confused and probably stay put until I felt I had a good chance of getting on land. (I mean, I'm also a human and would talk to the crew, haha!) But for a flying creature it seems intuitive that they'd just...fly.
An intriguing little fellow!!
Here's what I posted: Maybe there were insects, a food source on the cattle ship that attracted the bird. "Pairs or small flocks of Cattle Tyrants follow grazing animals for flushed prey even hitching rides on these animals". So they hang around cattle. This one hitched a long ride? 😂
It took 17 hours out of our trip in the RGV, so it better be countable.
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I love its yellow belly! It’s a cute bird.
I’m curious, did the ABA make a decision on the Cattle Tyrant yet?
They decided it doesn’t count :(
@@BadgerlandBirding aw man :(
So did humans release it over here then?
@@JacobDoesStuff-hq6gp I don't think so. I think they just decided since they couldn't know for sure that they weren't ready to accept it. I still think it came over on a ship on its own.
Evidence is very strong that it was ship-assisted and it may explain the recent colonization of Panama by Cattle Tyrants as well, though I don't believe that is proven yet.
I'll be down that way next week and hope to see it.
Interesting! Cool bird 👍
cute little guy, and he is digging the attention.
Beautiful ! ❤
Had to have come over on a tanker.
The bird must have got blown way off course to end up in Texas.
Is there a way to get it back to it natural area? Otherwise he's just going to die here. He needs a mate.😮
nothing like a birder trying to get a closer look or photo........let me know if this bird gets up N.Y way.
Ask the smarty pants scientists how it got there. They know everything. 🐦