Hasan
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10 hours ago, DLecy said:
Here is the "eBird confirmed" MEDU from the same location. Likely the same bird with a solid brown breast. The plot thickens...
Geez. That should not have been confirmed. It's pretty clear that's not a pure Mexican
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Given that the breast is a contrasting solid brown, I'm be fairly confident this a hybrid imo
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I'm saying that I personally wouldn't put that gull to a species. It looks off for a Herring, but Glaucous-winged hybridizes extensively and is very rare east of the coast.
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They are Brewer's/Rusty Blackbirds but without better photos I wouldn't call it to species
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Absolutely!
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Not quite sure what Tony's on about- if there's absolutely no red at the base of the primaries and tail it simply cannot be a Pyrrhuloxia. The very drabbest example: https://ebird.org/checklist/S33757099
Female Phainopepla can have the appearance, as this one does, of a dark area surrounding the eye when viewed from certain angles.
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Ah, just came across this photo I have that settles it. Thanks all.
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Came across this weird looking duck which I presume is a Black Duck. What's throwing me for a loop, however, is the lack of any sort of facial contrast or distinction between the head and the body. There's also this weird light color in front of the bill. If it's a black duck, what's its age/sex and what's with the lack of contrast?
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These are rather long-tailed with a little white on the middle of wings- Hooded Mergs.
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All confirmed!
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4 looks like a Ringer, and I suspect that 3 is a LBBG.
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Red, apologies. Head got ahead of my fingers, I guess
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Leucistic Common Grackle.
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This is a Phainopepla- notice the lack of at the base of the primaries and the tail.
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Both are Iceland Gulls.
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Regarding the first bird, given the inherent difficulties with this particular species, I don't think that these would be alone identifiable. Herring is most likely here.
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4 is not a Pacific Loon. It's a Common- notice the massive bill. Structurally, Pacific is very similar to Red-throated.
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It's a gull, and I might hazard a guess of Western Gull given the amount of black on the wingtips, but the pics leave much to be desired.
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8 minutes ago, Colton V said:
Then what does it have?
White uppertail coverts.
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19 minutes ago, Kevin said:
Greener? Have you seen Texas?
Honestly there are some very pretty places, the west, treeless and drab the east a forest.
Not much of it. I drove through the panhandle which was dry grasslands with buttes. Caracaras live in the south east of the state, however, which I imagine is quite green and increasingly tropical as one goes south.
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Lol if this is upstate NY I'll cut off my arm and eat it. I'm not even convinced this is the US, I could be wrong but this doesn't really look any of the areas in AZ where this bird hangs out, and I think TX would be greener than this
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Yeah, this isn't going to be identifiable without a photo. Ferruginous Hawk can also have the appearance of a white rump
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Regarding Costa's, though this bird does look rather bulky to my eye, I'll actually concur here upon second review- my call was likely too hasty
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@AlexHenry Is there a reason to go for hybrid here? Structure looks fine, plumage doesn't scream hybrid to me. I suppose we can't rule out a hybrid but at least a fair percentage of all the birds we identify on this forum we can't technically rule out some sort of hybrid.
Mexican duck?
in Help Me Identify a North American Bird
Posted · Edited by Hasan
To rephrase, I should probably not ever use the phrase 'pretty clearly' in reference to Mexican Duck. I'm no authority on Mexican and it can have a somewhat dark breast but imo a bird with this much contrast and a clean dark breast should raise some flags.