Search Results matching tag 'identify'

Seabird Identification: Pensacola, Florida

sagwilliams — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:53:50 GMT

What kind of bird is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0dZH-iKz48 ? I found it on the beach in Pensacola Beach, Fl, and have seen them a few times. They kind of flop up on the shore and just lay there like they are injured, but they aren't actually sick or injured at all. Their legs are really far back too.

Can anyone help me id this hawk please?

stewart1998 — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:43:28 GMT

http://www.whatbird.com/forums/photos/stewarts_birds/picture95698.aspx

I live in North Georgia, can anyone help me id this hawk please?

Thanks!

Stewart

Warbler looking bird to ID in SE MN

Shad — Sun, 24 May 2009 13:01:05 GMT

I saw this bird bug catching early this morning and cannot ID him with my book. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Size - roughly 6-7"

Bug catching

SE MN

Identifying a SPECIFIC Blue Jay

Spatzzy — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:12:35 GMT

I don't know if this is even possible, but is it possible to identify a specific blue jay? We had a Blue Jay (that we named Charlie) that was extremely comfortable around us, he entered our home, sat on my shoulders - he is the reason I became a bird watcher and grew to understand the magnificence of birds. He left in the winter and today for the first time in months we had a blue jay on our property, before "Charlie" we never had blue jays. I was only able to take a quick picture of him as my dog started barking and the blue jay flew off. So I am wondering if it is possible to match up specific birds because each bird has a uninque marking, or are all Blue Jays "Identical"? I have provided pictures so that some of you may help me, is the bird on the left the same bird as the one on the right?

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.

Grasshopper Sparrow?

T Jones — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 23:13:08 GMT

This looks like a Grasshopper Sparrow to me, except there isn't an eyering. I could use a little help with the ID.

S.Carolina Bird Call -- any guesses??

lisaski — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:20:12 GMT

Hi there. I have a kind of bird near my house (out in the country, near ponds and swamps, next to a forest, about 20 miles inland from the beach) that I hear but never can see. I think they might be mating right now (Oct.), as they seem to be calling to each other quite often throughout the day. I can't tell if they are in the trees or on the ground.

The sound they make is like a high-pitched laughter, rapid, starting out with a low note on the first couple of "ha's" and then into a higher note, and the speed winds down a bit toward the end. Ahhh-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha or ah-aa-aa-aa-aa... If I mimic it, it is nasal in sound. Also it makes a similar sound, rapid, but not as high in note, maybe like er-er-er-er-er-er-er...

Any guesses as to what it might be? It's making me so crazy because I can hear them but never see them. It sounds like a rain forest around here.

NOTE: Sounds sort of like a Prairie Falcon, but more of a uniform call.

Please help me identify a bird

CR Morrow — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:56:56 GMT

Yesterday I saw a bird I have never seen before. I live at Lake Tahoe on the west shore (Calif side), above 6000ft elev. My backyard is conifer forest with a clearing containing native and lawn type grasses. At first I thought it was a female mallard, all speckled tan color. Similar size and shape. We do have mallards here on the lake. The breast had a dark brown or black patch. The beak was not a duck shape, looked more pointed at the tip, although it was similar in size to a duck's beak. Also, the feet were not duck type. This was midday in the sun, temp in mid 70s. It was poking around the ground/grass next to a solar panel. Appeared to be looking for bugs, like the robins and small birds do around here. Please does anyone have any idea what it was? I'm most curious. Thanks!!!

accipiter (maybe a hawk) new find--Indianapolis IN

Elayne May — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:13:54 GMT

Unknown accipiter --can anyone give clues without a photo? Its solid medium gray underside and lack of underside barring or streaking has us puzzled.

SEEN: 06-12-08 7 p.m. Suburb of North Indianapolis Indiana backyard --standing on the ground with grackles and robins diving and screaming at it. This area has some woodlands (maple, oak, walnut and beech) a 2 miles away--otherwise it is farmland and housing). This suburb is gaining some maturity to its trees so there is a plethora of songbirds.

HGT above ground: 11-12" Max.

COLOR: Dark slate gray upper -- medium-gray throat, chest & belly. From 40 feet away, underside was very consistently shaded no barring nor streaking on underside. Unsure about the dark slate upper.

HEAD: seemed slightly square at back CROWN: Yes. Raised slightly when other birds were attacking--dark slate or black from close to bill to back of head. Nape was similar in shape to an adult Sharp-shinned Hawk or Cooper's Hawk.

WING: Dark -- unknown flight shape. Its back was to us as it disappeared too quickly low between houses before we could determine a flight pattern.

TAIL: broad fan-shape and multiple bars (dark and light--maybe white)

I have looked at all juvenille & adult photos and do not see any resemblances.

I hope someone else has experienced the same type of siting.

tiger heron in Mexico

jean clark townsend — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:40:25 GMT

I saw a bird in the Yucatan that was the exact shape and size of a bare-throated tiger heron. It did not have a bare throat. It had a yellow throat with bars resembling a ladder. It also had a dark azure, almost aquamarine cap with an orange edge to it. The rest of the coloring was typical of a bare-throated tiger heron, and very distinctive, as if breeding plumage. It was beautiful, but baffling. I can't find photos of it anywhere; the closest is an ordinary bare-throated tiger heron. Has anyone seen anything like this?