Rare hummingbird sighting ignites twitter among Miami birders | Miami Herald

South Florida has a way of attracting vagrants and for birders, that's a good thing.

This month, a tiny hummingbird that typically migrates between Texas and Mexico mysteriously took a detour and made a very rare appearance in Miami-Dade County. Birders, who call such stragglers vagrants, quickly flocked to Castellow Hammock Nature Center, a remote county park with a few scattered benches and little hint of its ranking among naturalists as prime grounds for spying trophies. Painted buntings routinely turn up in the South Miami-Dade park. Once over a few days in 2004, three amethyst hairstreak butterflies were spotted.

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Rare hummingbird sighting ignites twitter among Miami birders | Miami Herald