Laura Erickson's For the Birds

This exquisite kingbird is found from southern Mexico to Argentina; it’s depicted on postage stamps from Argentina, Brazil, the Falkland Islands, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, and Uruguay. The Mexican subspecies is non-migratory, and the birds breeding in the southernmost part of their range in South America migrate north for the austral winter, so oddly enough, the Fork-tailed Flycatchers who breed the furthest from the United States are the ones who make occasional appearances here. I’ve seen them in Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, and Ecuador, as well as Grand Marais, Minnesota, in May 1992, and at Stony Point north of Duluth in September 2022.