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This is a little difficult, but can anyone, other than Resin, identify this chick.
If no one can identify this chick, I'll post another picture including a parent.
Gary
TYPO
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Thanks for starting the new thread!
I know what it is to genus, but not to species. **** chicks are notoriously difficult to identify, even ringers (banders) often have to wait for the parents to return to their chicks to get them identified after they've been ringed.
Resin
This picture of the chick with a parent should change the impossible to simple.
Gary
Yeah, it's one of those!! LOL :-)
Yep your right Nanny, it one of those sea gull, ...................( fill in the blank). LOl
This message was edited Feb 27, 2008 4:28 PM
Ok, I just looked at the book and could it be Black-Legged Kittiwake??? The book cut the tail off.
Larus canus brachyrhynchus a.k.a. Larus brachyrhynchus (likely to be split from Larus canus fairly soon).
Resin
Resin,
The Mew Gull is the most common gull in Anchorage. I'd never paid any attention to the scientific name. I checked my book shelf, and found all of the above possibilities, in different books.
Gary
Well Nanny, for us inexperienced birders, it's a Mew Gull. I still had to search my book, to find that big word for a name, I could understand :))
Fairly subtle, but consistent, differences from Common Gull L. canus canus
Resin
That second picture looks like the species "BIRDus LINEus UPus"
Thanks, burn!!
LOL, Mrs. Ed!
I glad my sense of humor didn't upset anyone! (I hope) Learned something new today didn't we!
I couldn't get close enough to get a good picture; but can anyone tell me ... Is this a Northern Flicker?
Yes it is Jane, Red-shafted (Western form)
Thanks Angele. This was another new one to add to my list.
They are very shy around here. Fly away quick!
Canada Goose and ????
and ??? had to take these from a very long distance with the sun at the wrong angel.
This message was edited Feb 28, 2008 7:39 AM
Bird at the back is a Wood Duck
The two together may be American Wigeon, but not enough detail visible to be certain.
Resin
Thanks resin........I was leaning towards Wood Duck, but wasn't sure.
My first ever pic of a woodpecker. Not a very good pic I know, but Hairy or Downey? Taken this morning in my yard.
Thanks! GM
Downy, small little beak.
Thanks, Mrs_Ed! GM
Congratulations Grandmaggie!
Great photos & comments too everyone , LOL @ "BIRDus LINEus UPus" Mrs. Ed.
Congratulations GM on your wonderful Woodpecker shot!
NM Jane, Congratulations on your lifer too!!! You posted a bird in the ID thread, the Merlin, was that a lifer too?? I've never seen one. Very cool!
Here is my "Pete" the Pyrrhuloxia purloining a phruit from a cactus in my yard
Thanks, nanny_56! GM
oh pooh, I posted in the wrong thread.. what a dope!!!
Thanks angele too! GM
Questions please, are these a couple nuthatches? If they are "an Item" which is the male and which is the female please.
Thanks,
Kim
Aw… aren't they cute. Yes, two White-breasted nuthatches. I don't know which is the female as I have trouble with that. The male's cap is black and the female's dark gray, if that helps.
Plus, the pix is a little far away.
But they sure look like love birds.
Thank you Mrs_Ed, I'll try to get a close up of them later if I can. :-)
Can someone help me I.D. this hawk? Thanks!
sadie_mae; beautiful bird! Nice shot!
I'll say Red-tailed Hawk, sadie mae, because of the dark patagial mark. Beautiful photo!
Thanks Lily_love. Your pair of love birds there are too cute! The only time I ever see 2 WB Nuthatches, I figure they must be males because they're always fussing with each other...then again, maybe they're an "old married couple" ;-)
Thanks angele, that's what I was thinking. I had looked in a couple of my bird books and the underside is much lighter than what they show as the underside as being for an eastern Red-tailed so I wasn't sure. The raptors seem to be the hardest for me to identify.
sadie_mae; I'm relatively new at birding. Specialized on "back yard's birding" that is. By far, among those few that I'm learning to identify/recognize. The WB nuthatches are great socialized birds. I will see them feeding at the feeders without fighting one another off. I've noticed that the finches, however are very teritorial. So are the tiny lovely little Carolina chickadees? They usually fight off "intruders" if they were at the feeder before others' arrival. They don't seem to like sharing. :-) Oh, BTW, the titmouse, they are very fast, but those finches managed to keep them at bay while they're feeding. lol.
Sadie_Mae, nice hawk shot!! I can't get one of our Red Tail for nothing!
That is a great shot Sadie and I'm with Nanny on this...all my pics of that hawk end up looking like blurry black dots!!
Thanks Nanny & Rose :-) I don't get very many successful in flight shots, I need to start practicing cause they always look so cool!
Grackle?
