If you look at the "sightings" section for this species on the Cornell lab site, people see them in the NW including near Seattle.GerryL wrote: ↑Mon Apr 26, 2021 2:30 pm A couple of weeks ago I was sitting on my patio and spotted an unusual bird hopping between the shrubs. It was black and had a crest. I kept staring to capture it in my mind, and when I went back inside I searched online. The only match I could find was a phainopepla, and the images are exactly what I saw, at a distance, granted. But I'm in the Pacific Northwest, out of range for this bird. Maybe that's why I'd never seen one before and have not seen it since.
Has anyone else seen a phainopepla this far north?
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Pha ... -sightings
I don't see them in my state. Nice looking bird.