DLecy
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Sounds like a Song Sparrow to me. Admittedly, I’d like to see it in a spectrogram, but it has more of a SOSP quality to my ears.
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1 hour ago, Birds are cool said:
There are no distracting branches in the way, the bird is very close, lighting is good. Detail is good, picture is not grainy.
Bird is small in the frame, and it’s preening, so many salient ID features are hidden. It’s in decent lighting and in focus…I think it’s appropriately rated.
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American Goldfinch.
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Fawn and White Runner Ducks...most all domestic ducks come from original Mallard stock.
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2 minutes ago, Birds are cool said:
https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/507240291
This seems more like a 4/5 to me.
I'm curious as to why?
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American Tree Sparrow. The backlighting is throwing off the color of the bill.
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Pigeon Guillemot.
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6 hours ago, IKLland said:
The best setup in the world for bird photography right now is probably the Sony a1 with the Sony 600mm f/4. It’s literally $25000 though.
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3 hours ago, DaBirb said:
My first Merlin result was a Bullock.
It’s definitely not a Bullock’s. Proceed with caution…
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My take is that the bird is preening its breast, with its head facing down. It’s slightly turned to the side, as ducks, loons, and grebes often do while preening on the water, which accounts for the light colored belly (not flanks). I think it’s a Ruddy Duck.
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5 hours ago, Kevin said:
the pattern is totally wrong for Ruddy Duck.
Could you be more specific as to help with the discussion?
I would call these preening Ruddy Ducks, as Buffleheads don't show the facial patterning that these ducks do.
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It's definitely a Ruddy Turnstone.
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California, no doubt.
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Structurally, I'd probably call this a GWTE.
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16 minutes ago, AlexHenry said:
The bill is too long for Barrows. Also the orange color on a Barrows bill is usually much brighter (although they can also have a dark bill if young of the year).
Common can orange bill color as well, but it’s often sort of dusky:
Agreed!
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Brewers. Small-billed, cold-toned, lack of facial contrast, LONG tail, lacking central crown stripe...and it's hanging out (likely nesting) in Sagebrush in Montana in June.
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Looks better for an orange billed Common Goldeneye to me.
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Winter Wren, a CBRC review species. Got great looks and (crummy) video yesterday.
https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/505750271
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I'd say so.
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1 hour ago, Bird-Boys said:
Orchard! Look how little it is compared to the HOSP in the last pic!
58 minutes ago, Seanbirds said:It appears that the HOSP is closer to the camera though... which could skew things.
Both of these statements are true. I’d say it’s an Orchard by size, greenish plumage, structure, bill size, and the fact that OROR are much more likely than HOOR at this date; at least that’s the case in Northern CA.
The tail looks concerningly long for OROR in some of the pictures, but it’s just too small to be anything else, IMO. People sometimes confused ORORs with warblers, that’s how small they are, comparatively.
Aren’t you brothers @Bird-Boys and @BirdNrd?!
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Correct on both.
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Wren sounding thing
in Help Me Identify a North American Bird
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Yeah, I'm just not sure. It could be a a SOSP or a Pacific/Winter Wren. Hard to make a call off of two "timp" calls with all the other noises going on.