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Posted 16 August 2012 - 07:11 PM
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Posted 16 August 2012 - 08:01 PM
My first thought was Mockingbird also, mainly for what looks like wingbars, but the bill looks so big as do the legs. Yesterday, here in Panama, I saw a flock of Great-tailed grackles feeding. A few of the young were leucistic/mottled and weird looking (knew I should have taken a few shots!). Am I just seeing things wrong as far as bill size goes with this bird or could it be a grackle of some kind with the tail feathers missing?
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Posted 16 August 2012 - 08:19 PM
That's an interesting though, Suzanne. I had the same feeling, that the bill on this guy is simply too big for a Mockingbird -- but for it to get the color pattern that well?
I guess I'll have to say I don't really know.
I guess I'll have to say I don't really know.
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Posted 16 August 2012 - 09:29 PM
Me, also: I first thought it was frowzy N. Mockingbird, but then the bill looked too big and maybe Grackle-ish. Other than that, I got nothin'.
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Posted 16 August 2012 - 11:39 PM
Looks likee a partially leucistic grackle to me, too.
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 12:44 AM
So what does all that mean?
It's a leucistic common grackle?
a half grackle, half mockingbird?
It's a leucistic common grackle?
a half grackle, half mockingbird?
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