My Favorite : Hooded Warblers are a species that have no business being in South Dakota! Their normal closest breeding range is extreme southeastern Iowa, a few hundred miles away. In May of 2020 however, birders at Newton Hills State Park heard an unfamiliar song, and soon found the source, a Hooded Warbler male singing his heart out from the top of a dead tree. Remarkably a Hooded Warbler was reliably seen in the same location each spring and summer through at least 2026.
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