-> What I suspect happened is that as thickbills, which used to number
-> in tens or hundreds of thousands, and migrated from central Mexico to
-> Illinois, became near-extinct, other species -- mostly varieties of
-> Amazon, I guess -- bagan moving north to fill in the thickbill's
-> vacant niche.
That sounds not only possible but likely!  I can certainly believe THAT!
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