Search Results matching tag 'unknown suburban bird'

Unidentified injured bird

AnimalSites — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:33:20 GMT

Bird was attacked by a stray cat. We've been nursing this little bird back to health for 2 weeks (so far). It will eat store-bought earthworms, mealworms and wild mulberries but only when handfed. Will not pick up food from ground. Will turn its nose up at cold food. Hasn't tried to fly yet. Has a badly broken leg. Hops a lot, loses its balance a lot, too.

In this video you can hear it squawk and see it perching:

Click here for the youtube video

I'm thinking it might be a wren or warbler. It is quite small, all black. Not sure if face was different color... cat removed the bird's mask, so it was red and raw when we found it. Appears to have scabbed over now.

We are located in a suburb in southern Illinois.

It cries out loudly every 2-3 hours all day long until it is fed. Eats a lot each time! We gave it a stick to practice perching on its one good leg. It seems to like sitting on the stick and staying in one corner of its box..

Anyone know what kind it is? Is it fully grown? Are we feeding it properly? Is there anything else we can do to help it? Thanks in advance for the help!

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.

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.

Totally gray bird,what is?

sbaker5 — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:12:05 GMT

I have spotted at least 3 pair totally gray birds looking for bugs in the yard and around the birdbath. Imagine a CALM starling with that short tail, but a medium smokey gray all over, very slightly darker at top of head but no other markings at all. It's the bobbed tail and round head that are striking. Kansas City urban garden, and they don't touch the seed. Can't find this one in any book or web site. Any clues??

Help Identify Mystery Bird

Terri S — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:12:33 GMT

Central NJ, This bird has been coming to my back yard since mid April, it's about 11 inches long, (larger than a CatBird) it has long brown legs, a head like a Savannah Sparrow and chest markings like a Starling. I can't figure out if it's a thrush or a hybrid mix? Would appreciate help.

Re: Baltimore Oriole

Don — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:25:22 GMT

Here's the only other good pic that I have. I appreciate every one's inputs.

Warbler?

Don — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:50:25 GMT

We live in Eastern NC and this bird (attached) visits our feeder. It eats what we put out for the Bluebirds: a suet mix and meal worms. My bird books put it in the Warbler family, but I'm not certain.

Unknown bird (audio)

Steve0701 — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 22:09:18 GMT

Hi everyone. I just joined WhatBird a few minutes ago in the hopes that someone would identify this bird that I've been hearing all summer. It stays in the trees out of sight and sings morning and late afternoon. I hope I'm not abusing the website by trying to put a wave file where a picture belongs, so just in case, here is the URL again www.tagnet.org/macedonia/eb/unknown_bird.wav I am a few miles west of Philadelphia. The audio is about 30 seconds and has the call 5 times. If you know this bird at all, you'll probably recognize it in the first couple of seconds. Thanks for the help.