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Those are actually Green Hairons.

WOW! The yard is busy today! Just saw four hawks at once battling over a fresh robin kill. Three were really small and one was much larger. Are these Sharpies and Coopers?

This is the Punk subspecies.

This is a Brewer’s Blackbird.

Vermilion Flycatcher Vermillion Flycatcher Anahauc 1-16 by johnd1964, on Flickr

Unspotted Saw-whet Owl. 🙂 [Photo credit: Wikipedia/ By MauricioCalderon - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44024276]

No matter where I go, I can’t escape them!!!!

Thank you all so much, I never had laughed so much early in the morning. Best answers ever.

Bonaparte’s.

Green Herons are like chameleons 😄 They change position and look like a totally different bird! I've been confused by them many times. Plus it looks like yours is stretching in a stiff breeze (or used too much hair gel).

Happy Turkey Day to all the Statesiders! (And belated Happy Turkey Day to the Canadians!)

Turkey Vulture 1-Yolo Bypass NWR 2-20-2014 094 by littlebear_elder, on Flickr

Yard Bird...San Diego Great Horned Owl

White-tailed Kite IMG_7370-001 by littlebear_elder, on Flickr

We don't know all that much about the Iceland Gull complex- a lot is unknown. But current believed taxonomy is this: Iceland Gull is a polytypic species with three subspecies: 1) nominate glaucoides- of Europe which is thought to occur in the East on rare occasion. All white primaries with no gray whatsoever. But that ID is extremely complicated. 2) Kumlieni- ("Kumlien's Gull") Adults with slight gray in primaries, and immautures with mostly pale primaries- Your birds' primaries are a little darker than I would like for a typical kumlieni 3) thayeri- the bird formerly known as Thayer's Gull. Much darker overall in immature plumages with darker brown primaries. The problem is that there are many birds that fall somewhere in the middle of kumlieni and thayeri. We don't really know what that means. A lot of birds fit nicely into one or the other, but others not so much. It does seem like a gradient to some extent like you mentioned. There'll have to be a lot of work done before we really get to the bottom of the complex.

I've been seeing a lot of Coopers Hawks in my yard lately and this little guy showed up today. It looked significantly smaller than the other hawks I've been seeing. Is this a Sharp-shinned? (See today near Boise, Idaho.) Thanks!

Life is good. At least, life is good if you're not the robin. It's great when you can get two frequently confused species to show up together for comparison!

The first is a Sharpie and the second is a Cooper's. That must have been quite the sight! Great shots!

Welcome to Whatbird! Sounds like you saw Ruby-crowned Kinglets.

Indeed it is a Sharp-shinned with the very rounded head, dark nape and cap, and relatively short, even tail.

Thanks! Here are a few specialties from Hawaiʻi: 311. Hawaiian Goose 312. Hawaiian Coot

Good night, everybody! We're here all week! Try the quail!

Your joke still works in english, at least in my adult head mind it does.

On his way to have his bill pierced.

Green Heron is correct.

They’re so pretty!

This one speaks for itself also............ 1-Yolo Bypass NWR 12-14-2013 033 by littlebear_elder, on Flickr

Ocellated Turkeys are so cool.

Occellated Turkey. Wild Turkeys if you live in Central America like Aves.

Wait a sec. are those wild turkeys or a different species?

The old thread didn’t allow it, but it is in the ABA now. I don’t see why not.

I guess so. Go ahead. Hawaii is in north america after all.

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Wilson's Warbler by Mark Goodwin, on Flickr

Harris' Hawk by Mark Goodwin, on Flickr

Ruby-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet by Johnny, on Flickr

MN :

This is mostly because I don't see a lot of Cooper's hawks

Yellow-rumped Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler by Johnny, on Flickr

Rosette Spoonbill

mabey Ross's goose Anahauc NWR 10-18 by johnd1964, on Flickr mabey Ross's goose Anahauc NWR 10-18 by johnd1964, on Flickr mabey Ross's goose Anahauc NWR 10-18 by johnd1964, on Flickr

From now on I'm just going to post pictures I take from now on, if you see what I mean. 310. Ladder-backed Woodpecker

Thinking MacGillivray's Warbler. Never seen one personally though so wait for other opinions.