Please help me identify this beautiful bird!

Say-say — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:13:57 GMT

I am new to this, but don't think I've seen this bird around before.

Location: South Carolina

Thanks!

I.D for a Dundas Ontario bird needed

maskedferret — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:34:26 GMT

Forgive the long post but I wanted to be as detailed as possible.

Since colours are subjective it was about 3pm in the spring, fairly bright day but was behind an apartment building so seemed more overcast. the bird was seen on a grey concrete porch with black wrought iron balustrade. There were two of them but they seemed identical so I couldn't say if they were mates or the same genders. I admit I did not get as close or as long a view as I would have liked but I did get to see it for a few minutes while it was still from about 3-4 feet away so I am fairly certain in most of my descriptions unless I've specified otherwise.

Location is Dundas, Hamilton Ontario Canada he area is a small town with lots of green space so still urban. Seen on a back porch in an area with several small houses and a few old pine trees. Woman on second floor has a feeder but I'm not sure it was there to eat.

Seemed about the size of a small chickadee or sparrow (The chickadees in my area are often very fat and look like a small round toy ball rather than an actual bird). Beak looked to be the same size as the head, at most an inch long. Black and very thin. looked at first glance like a very short hummingbird beak but on closer inspection it looked like a multipurpose beak but slimmer and sharper point. It didn't taper like dagger beaks do. (The main multipurpose beaks I've seen and known are on robins so you know what I'm picturing in comparison) Head was small and rounded and seemed a soft grey brown colour with a think white stripe across the eye. much thinner than chickadees and it didn't wider at all. it was straight from front ti back of the head. eyes appeared black or very dark brown.

Body was the same soft grey brown all over and it had thin black legs. it seemed to be a slim perching body shape but the tail was pointed up when the bird was standing rather than down following the slope of the back. was thin and seemed maybe half to 3/4 the length of the body including the head.

No idea if it makes any noise when I saw the bird it was completely silent.

The closest I've seen on the site is the five striped sparrow but there are too many differences like the second stripe under the eye and the multiple body colours.

Thanks you so much for any help you can give I've tried the bird searches on here and thus far can't find anything. I've never seen this bird before so it's really gnawing at me. I'll try and go back soon and see if I can't get some photographs to help with the identification.

What kinda bird is this?

yorikbag — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:22:47 GMT

I found it in my backyard. It looks hurt...is that blood or something?

http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/6673/dscn0062xz3.jpg

Will it EAT ME? It seems pretty defenseless. And what if it has...SUPER AIDS or something?

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Please help me identify this beautiful bird!

I.D for a Dundas Ontario bird needed

What kinda bird is this?