[What's this large duck?]

Are the other two ducks in the lower pic "normal" Mallards?

[What's this large duck?]

Photographed in Council Bluffs, Iowa, way back in November 2019.  Maybe a domestic duck and Crested Duck hybrid?  Intergrade?

[Red-winged Blackbird]

This bird was photographed in NW missouri last week.  Is it an adult female or an immature male?

[What's this heron?]

Unfortunately this is the best photo I managed to get.  It's heavily cropped, and was never in focus to begin with.  The other shots of it are even more out of focus.

[What's this heron?]

Dang it.  Sorry

[What's this heron?]

Seen 2 weeks ago in NW Missouri.  Could this be a Wurdemann's Great Blue Heron?

[Glossy or White-faced Ibis?]

Dang it.  Foiled again.

[Glossy or White-faced Ibis?]

No pinkish red skin between the bill and the eye, eye appears black, not red, legs appear darkish, but not redish. That's why I'm still thinking Glossy.

[Glossy or White-faced Ibis?]

Updating (correcting) my archives, again.  I placed this image in the White-faced Ibis folder, but I think it's actually a Glossy Ibis.  Photo was taken in October 2022 at Loess Bluffs NWR in NW Missouri.

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1 hour ago, MichaelLong said:

Woww!!! I had no idea they had a little red spot on their heads like that!

I didn't either.  Apparently they only display it when there's a predator nearby and/or they feel threatened

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Angry Eastern Kingbird

[Are these Gray-cheeked Thrushes?]

I'm sure you're right.  I did photograph a Swainson's a few days earlier on the other side of the lake.  What threw me was the Merlin App heard two different thrushes. Regrettably, I deleted that file, so can't recall what two thrushes were suggested by Merlin, but I definitely remember that Swainson's wasn't one of them. 

[Are these Gray-cheeked Thrushes?]

Seen yesterday at Lake Manawa in Council Bluffs, Iowa.  Both images were taken a few minutes apart in the same area.  But I'm not certain if they're both the same bird.

[What's this warbler?]

Yeah!  That's my 4th Lifer bird in 2 days!

[What's this warbler?]

Seen today in my Bellevue, NE, backyard.  Initially thought it was a Yellow-rumped.  Now i'm thinking Chestnut-sided?  It's be a lifer if it was.  These are the only two images I managed to capture.

[Female Common Yellowthroat?]

Thanks

 

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I saw my first Black-billed Cuckoo today

[Female Common Yellowthroat?]

Seen today at Lake Manawa in Council Bluffs Iowa.  Is this a female Common Yellowthroat?

[Not Phalaropes]

What are the "other" shorebirds seen here that are not Wilson's Phalaropes?  Image was taken last week in NW Missouri.

[Pectoral Sandpiper?]

Is the bird in between the Wilson's Phalarope and Lesser Yellowlegs, a Pectoral Sandpiper.  Image taken last week at Loess Bluufs NWR, NW Missouri

[Least Sandpiper?]

Is the smaller bird left of the Wilson's Phalarope a Least Sandpiper?  Pic taken last week at Loess Bluffs NWR, NW Missouri.

[What are these two shorebirds?]

Thank you. These would be my first Dunlins then.  Yeah, a new Lifer!

[What are these two shorebirds?]

Pics taken in NW Missouri last week.  What are these two shorebirds?  If they're both the same, is the difference in color due to breeding vs. non-breeding plumage?  I have no frontal shots of the bird on the right.

[What are these Sandpipers?]

Did we decide on Pectoral Sandpipers?

 

[What are these Sandpipers?]

I'm assuming they're Sandpipers.  Images were taken in April 2020 in NW Missouri.