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Sun Apr-20-08 09:07 AM
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Oh, hai, Help identify bird. K, tanks |
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Sun Apr-20-08 09:16 AM
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They are less easy to identify outside of a baseball park, their natural environment.
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Sun Apr-20-08 09:17 AM
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Sun Apr-20-08 09:24 AM
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3. there are numerous oriole species-- ask Xemasab.... |
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My money's on oriole too. It will help if you tell us where the pic was taken since different species have different geographic distributions.
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Sun Apr-20-08 11:16 AM
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12. Here's why it's not an oriole: |
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Orioles have pointy little meadowlark/blackbird beaks.
The bird in the OP has clearly got a big, seed-eating beak.
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Sun Apr-20-08 11:52 AM
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13. that's why you're the ornithologist and I'm not, LOL.... |
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One of my grad students took me on a marsh bird walk a year or so ago. She hasn't repeated the experience. I think she knows my ornithology fu is very weak.
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Sun Apr-20-08 09:26 AM
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4. Black-headed grosbeak. |
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Sun Apr-20-08 09:27 AM
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Sun Apr-20-08 09:29 AM
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I am bird nerd, hear me chirp
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Sun Apr-20-08 09:37 AM
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9. I thought grosbeak first thing, but couldn't narrow it down. |
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Thanks. I know I didn't originally ask, but still. I'm one of those people who cannot quit looking.
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Sun Apr-20-08 09:27 AM
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6. I think it's a grosbeak? |
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Edited on Sun Apr-20-08 09:28 AM by SallyMander
Not sure which kind, though...
:hi:
Edit - BNL got it while i was posting :toast:
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Sun Apr-20-08 09:42 AM
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Sorry, I think I was channeling a past life there... pretty sure I used to be a cat in a past life. :P
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Sun Apr-20-08 11:13 AM
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11. Black-headed Grosbeak |
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Sun Apr-20-08 12:32 PM
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15. Are you in the Dakotas? They have Black-headed Grosbeaks... |
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Sun Apr-20-08 12:42 PM
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17. Sacramento, California |
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Sun Apr-20-08 01:05 PM
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19. Well, they may go to California in the winter. I'd sure like to. :D |
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First thing I thought of when I saw this pic was a Towhee. I have them galore here all summer. I just assumed the color oddities were molting or something. I got back in the book and looked at the wee differences and realized a few that have been in yard were actually Rose-Breasted Grosbeaks.
I keep tryin to snap a picture but the dogs are scaring them off.
I get to add them to my life list now :)
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