[wisb] Re: Big Bend Bird ID
- From: "Mike Duchek" <mikeduchek@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[Wisb]" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 20:37:02 -0500
Thanks Chris, I'll reply. I don't know how I blanked on Say's phoebe but
now that people said it, definitely yes. I thought Scott's oriole too for
#4 just based on looking it up though I don't know my orioles as well as
you. One other person thought Hooded oriole but that looked less likely to
me based on the photo and range maps.
-Mike Duchek, Waukesha, Waukesha Co.
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris West
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 7:54 PM
To: Mike Duchek ; [Wisb]
Subject: [wisb] Re: Big Bend Bird ID
I can't reply to the topic via the website, but for anyone wanting to know
what these birds are, they are, from top to bottom:
#1 "desert" House Finch (far more brightly colored than your typical House
Finch, although, I've seen some bright ones here in WI)
#2. Northern Mockingbird
#3 Say's Phoebe (these are fairly common Sayornis flycatchers of the desert
southwest)
#4 Scott's Oriole
#5 Montezuma Quail (this is a species that is difficult to see, much less
photograph. It always seems as if the Texas birds are much more confiding
than the Arizonan ones.)
Happy Birding! --Chris W, Richland County Interpretive Naturalist
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breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a
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(From William Beebe's "The Bird: Its Form and Function," 1906)
> From: mikeduchek@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [wisb] Big Bend Bird ID
> Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 19:25:17 -0500
>
> Anyone care to ID these birds from Big Bend NP in West Texas? Not my
> photos, though I was there a couple years ago. Amazing place (no other
> national park has had more bird species recorded in it).
> Anyway, the birds in question are the 3rd and 4th photos. For the 3rd at
> first I thought some kind of myiarchus flycatcher, but now thinking
> western kingbird probably?
>
> Last one oriole I think, but not sure what kind. Scott’s oriole?
>
> http://bit.ly/h0YG60
>
>
> -Mike Duchek, Waukesha, Waukesha Co.
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