Hello and welcome to the American Birding podcast from the American Birding Association. I am Nate

Swick. I want to get you over to the panel discussion quickly. It's the end of the month. And that,

of course, means this month and birding. We have a great one this time around. But one quick

organizational note before we go. However, we are coming to the end of our summer

nesting season appeal, which is our annual fundraiser for the ABA's Young Birder programs.

If you make a donation before June 30th, which is coming up pretty quickly, your donation will

be matched by our board of directors. So it is a great opportunity

to make a donation go twice as far as it would otherwise. But the time is running short.

So if you're going to make that donation, there's no better time to do it. You can do that at

aBA.org slash appeal. That out of the way. Let's get to the fun stuff, this month in birding with

Gabriel Foley, Sean Melons, and Mo Stike after this week's rarebirds.

This is your rarebird focus for the end of June 2023. We'll check in with Alaska First,

where the spring rarity season is still on fire, both Asian brown flycatcher and Eurasian Siskin, the former

the ABA's seventh, the latter the ABA's sixth or so record were seen on Shemaiah Island

and a beautiful lesser white throat, only the ABA's second record of this species.

The first was a fall record from Gamble, more than a decade ago, was photographed at Utkiakvik,

formerly Barrow, on the mainland.

Another noteworthy, high latitude siding comes from Nunavut, where a great Cormorant photographed

east of Bylot Island on the north side

of Baffin Island is a first for that territory. Staying in Canada and moving south to Quebec,

that province's first record of Lewis's woodpecker was seen at Old Fort. This is the second

sighting of this bird in eastern Canada this year. There was a long-staying individual in Ontario from January through May. Hard to say whether this is the same bird.

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