
LorraineCO
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Looks like it, thanks. I think of them as prairie birds but they can occur as high as timberline.
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Pike's Peak, below summit, yesterday
Known to nest on the summit, I have a few crappy photos of a bird that I thought at first was an American Pipit and it's definitely not a pipit. Could it be a young Rosy Finch? Yellow bill, grayish crown. It would be fabulous if it was, since the wind was far too strong for birding on the summit.
Thanks!
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Thanks! I can usually pick them out, but this one had me stumped.
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Thanks for the confirmation!
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On 7/16/2018 at 8:38 AM, psweet said:
This bird's still in juvenile plumage (all of the feather edges are nice and crisp, with very little sign of wear -- adults at the start of their fall plumage should be quite worn, and I don't see any molting which would indicate that it hasn't started it's first pre-basic molt either). At this point, telling male from female requires measurements. The orange on the lesser wing coverts actually doesn't tell us anything --all their plumages show some orange there when fresh.
Thanks. I've never seen a female with orange, so assumed it was a young male.
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Thanks! I saw many of them today but this one just looked different. Maybe it's the light.
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It's an immature male Red-winged Blackbird
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El Paso County, CO today
Sage Thrasher? But I usually
see them with a spotted breast, like a robin. Young Northern Mockingbird maybe?
shorebird?
in Help Me Identify a North American Bird
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Thanks for the suggestions. It was pretty muddy, it was also quite distant and the photo is cropped, so shape could be distorted.