Zoroark
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Second photo: confirming Western Gulls, with that particular head shape, large bill (with a red mark on the lower front), bright pink legs, and plain neck. I saw lots of them when we visited southern California. The closer gull is a third-winter immature.
Third photo: I'm tempted to call the one standing on the ground in the center a Glaucous, but I'm not familiar with them at all.
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First two shots are both Hooded, and the third is Red-breasted. I believe the male Hooded is a first-spring immature bird molting into his adult feathers.
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Ignoring the location for a moment, a White-faced Ibis of any age wouldn't have anywhere near that much white on its belly. It would be mostly tan and green. Very young birds do tend to have shorter bills that haven't fully developed. This is a White Ibis.
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BRDL 372
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🐦🐦🐦🐦I have not seen this bird.
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birdie 🦉 #255: 🟥🟥🟥🟨🟩⬛
I have not seen this bird, but I hope to see it this year.
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This is a song about birds.
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Or any photos showing its size compared to other ducks? Teals are much smaller than mallards.
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BRDL 371
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🐦🐦🐦🐦I have photographed this bird.
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birdie 🦅 #254: 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
Such goofy birds
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13 minutes ago, Birds are cool said:
Yep, Cooper's!
Indeed. The best field mark for Accipiter hawks is the tail, both the markings on it and the length it extends past the primary projections (the wingtips). Most Buteo hawks have tails that appear shorter compared to the wings. Narrowing it further, the head shape is a clear giveaway of a Cooper's.
Hawks in flight are a bit trickier, and I've mixed those up with Sharpies a fair number of times.
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I would say it's likely some type of domesticated goose on size alone.
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birdie 🦆 #253: 🟥🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛
I have photographed this bird before.
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BRDL 370
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🐦🐦🐦🐦I have not seen this bird.
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A few days late on this one, but I definitely agree with California from frequent observations, especially in mixed flocks with Ring-billed. It's the only adult gull that matches the identifiable traits: relatively long black-ringed bill with red marking behind the ring on the bottom, yellow legs, slightly darker gray wings with white at base, brown streaks only on the back of the neck (white otherwise), and a thin line through the eye. The only similar gull (Herring) has a different shape of head and bill.
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Requesting confirmation on this one. I'm pretty sure this is a first-winter male Common Goldeneye at Lake Mead. Barrow's have been reported in several places nearby recently, but this bird doesn't seem to have the markings in the same location an immature Barrow's would.
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We took a drive down to Willow Beach in Arizona and stopped at a couple places on the way back. Three checklists combined into a trip report:
https://ebird.org/tripreport/104133Nothing new for the year, but notable sightings:
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- 450 Ruddy Ducks at Willow Beach, which is unusually high
- African Collared-Dove (I've noticed that escapees are listed at the bottom of trip reports now)
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birdie 🐦 #252: 🟥🟥🟩⬛⬛⬛
I've seen most of the ABA birds in this family, but not this one.
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BRDL 369
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🐦🐦🐦🐦I have photographed this very noisy bird.
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1 hour ago, millipede said:
He and I have had a lot of conversations about someone that refused to stop using Merlin for all their IDs...
I've followed the local sightings frequently enough that I can tell who is visiting from out-of-state and using that app to legitimize their reports. The filter for Las Vegas includes a huge variety of habitats, and sometimes you'll see a non-local report an alpine bird in the middle of the desert without getting caught in the filter. Even if they don't add a description of "ID'd by Merlin," it's clear that's how it got on their list.
In fact, there's a probably-incorrect "ID'd by Merlin" sparrow on the county Rare Bird Alert now, but I'm not going into detail to respect their privacy.
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53 minutes ago, Birds are cool said:
I just looked at my year list, and I don't have any Mallards on there even though I have seen them 3 times. How does ebird figure out if I saw a domestic Mallard or a true Mallard?
Did you enter them as "Mallard (Domestic type)"? Those count as escapees, while plain "Mallard" are accepted.
Example: https://ebird.org/checklist/S126087612
The three birds with a brown asterisk on this list don't count.
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birdie 🦆 #251: 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟩
I was pretty sure on the family, but I didn't realize until the end. I almost saw this bird, and it was close to where today's BRDL can rarely be seen.
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BRDL 368
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🐦🐦🐦🐦I have not seen this bird.
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Good luck. It's definitely on the list of places I want to go in South Carolina, but it's a bit out of the way. I think my father visited there over 30 years ago.
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I'm still impressed by folks who have yard lists with over 100 species. Even with 558 lists in my yard, I only have 50 species, and around 10 of those were fly-overs. Oh well, guess that's what being in the suburbs is like. Here's what my bar charts look like.
Meanwhile, at my aunt's house in South Carolina, I've seen 58 different birds on only 33 checklists.
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BRDL 373
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I have not seen this bird.