Lingering winter visiting birds?

Comment to add, this is a common misnomer in print field guides. For example, both my Sibley and Peterson field guides label blue as the winter range. That’s fine for most songbirds, but as your examples illustrate, it’s typically not really correct for waterbirds that take multiple years to reach maturity. All the Cornell Lab applications label blue as the nonbreeding range which is a more accurate representation.

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