RYE, N.H. (AP) – Bird watchers are flocking to Odiorne Point State Park to see a bird native to Central and South America.

It’s the first time a fork-tailed flycatcher has ever been seen in the state, said Becky Suomala, of the New Hampshire Audubon Society.

Bird watchers have seen it in shrubs, eating bittersweet and wild buckthorn berries. They also have watched it swooping and turning in flight. The bird has a wide wingspan and very long, forked tail.

The fork-tailed flycatcher rarely come this far north, although one was spotted 10 years ago at Fort Foster in Kittery, Maine, Suomala said.

The bird was probably following its normal migratory path when it was blown off course by a storm that ran up the East Coast last week.