The story says it was a redwing, and as a fun bonus in ONE place in article they use the word "thrush": > Days later, a redwing did appear just 180 miles south

The story says it was a redwing, and as a fun bonus in ONE place in article they use the word "thrush": > Days later, a redwing did appear just 180 miles southwest in Portland, Maine. It was a much better, safer location for visiting birders — a public park instead of someone’s backyard. The ABA email announced it. The thrush stuck around the city for two weeks, where Hitchcox estimated a few hundred people turned up to witness it. I think a redwing is a kind of bird in the thrush family of birds.