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I love the Internet! Here is an article I found on this beautiful bird. Rose-breasted Grosbeak, memory Answers to readers' questions about xanthochroism, spatial memory, and site fidelity By Julie Craves Published: Friday, June 20, 2003 A Rose-breasted Grosbeak with yellow instead of red on its breast has come to my feeder for the ...

I'm not sure but that one may also be a brown-eared bulbul  Sally

1. White wagtail lugens (or Black-backed subspecies) 2. Spot-billed duck 3. White-cheeked Starling Sally

I was just in Japan and had the book A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Japan and North-east Asia by Tadao Shimba. Very nice book. So I will say 1. the appropriately named Large-billed Crow 2. Azure-winged Magpie 3. Brown-eared Bulbul 4. Can't tell enough from the picture. Sally

I agree that the proportions are wrong for a great egret. The legs look too black for a cattle egret though. I unfortunately wasn't on the cruise to see the bird so I don't have any more info. Thanks, Sally

How about now?

Really? I see a picture. May take me a while to figure out where it is! Sally

This bird was a stowaway on a transatlantic cruise that started in Portugal, stopped in Morocco and the Canary Islands then went to Barbados. My boyfriend's mother was on the cruise. They think they picked up the egret in the Canary Islands but it may have been in Morocco. It stayed with them until they got to Barbados where it left the ship. Does ...

I must say that the first time I saw a hummingbird moth, it took me quite some time to figure out that it was not the smallest bird I've ever seen. I had been a birder for a number of years too. And I was watching it from about 2 feet away. They look remarkably birdlike. They are small enough to call them the size of a quarter or half dollar too.