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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 ...

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 ...