This Tri-City woman made an unusual find at Hood Park

BY PAUL KRUPIN SPECIAL TO THE HERALD

 JANUARY 13, 2019 02:30 PM,

UPDATED JANUARY 14, 2019 09:04 AM

Elke Davis may be relatively new to bird watching, but she earned another set of wings this month.

She went bird watching at Hood Park on Jan. 4 and made quite the find for a birder.

She saw a Eurasian wigeon — a red-headed duck that breeds in the northernmost parts of Europe and Asia. It migrates to southern Asia and Africa and is a rare winter visitor to the United States on the mid-Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

 “It was about noon on a gray cloudy day,” she said. “I scanned the water with my binoculars and there he was.”

Imagine that. A red-headed duck from Russia surrounded by a bunch of American wigeons in Kennewick.

It was not Davis’ first time spotting an unusual bird.

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Man arrested in Colombo for smuggling US$50,000 of birds' nests

A Chinese man was arrested in Sri Lanka while trying to smuggle birds' nests worth US$50,000.

COLOMBO: A Chinese man was arrested in Colombo while trying to smuggle out swallows' nests with a street value of US$50,000 on Tuesday (Sep 16), hours before the country's president was due to arrive.

The man was carrying nearly 5kg of the rare birds' nests, a delicacy in China, customs spokesman Leslie Gamini told AFP.

The arrest came on the same day that Chinese President Xi Jinping was making his first official visit to the island, which enjoys close ties with Beijing.

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