Outdoors: Rare sighting sends birders flocking to Boca’s Gumbo Limbo

Merti Rittgers (above from left) of Delray Beach, Derik Bowen of Coconut Creek and Kari Longshore of Montana came to Boca Raton on Nov. 12 to catch a glimpse of a rare and beautiful bananaquit (Coereba flaveola), which was feasting on firespike nectar in the butterfly garden at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center.

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