SALINEÑO, Texas (Border Report) -- Bob Bowman sometimes sees hundreds of birds every day as a caretaker of the Salineño Wildlife Preserve, which is located just feet from the Mexican border in deep South Texas. But he's never seen a rare brown jay until it flew here on Thanksgiving Day.

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It's returned every day since, and is boosting eco tourism here on the border, drawing birders from throughout the country who are coming to try to see it.

“We can almost not believe it. It’s really special," Bowman told Border Report on Thursday as he pointed and guffawed at the brown jay eating from a sliced orange hanging in a tree.

“Right now I suspect there’s no more than nine brown jays in the United States and they’re all

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