Blomfild's Beauty - Smyrna blomfildia World Birding Center HQ at Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Hidalgo County, Texas, USA
This species is normally extremely rare in the US, but was seen at least five times at Bentsen-RGV State Park between December 3 2005 and January 9 2006. Another was seen at Frontera Audubon Society's nature preserve in Weslaco, TX on December 2, and yet another in a garden at Valley Baptist Medical Center in Harlingen TX in mid-November. It has never been found breeding in the US, but such a collection of observations is awfully suspicious...
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