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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Dinusaur on April 11, 2014, 09:06:50 PM

Title: Downsview Bird ID
Post by: Dinusaur on April 11, 2014, 09:06:50 PM

Photos 1-3: Wood Thrush? I believe it is the same bird in all three photos, there's only one that I could see. Initially I thought it was an American Pipit that was reported earlier.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7362/13788540975_2d62e5a75c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/n1rSR6)
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7238/13788544195_137843ff4b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/n1rTNB)
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3715/13788568033_da2136821a.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/n1s1TB)

Photo 4: Northern Harrier or Cooper's Hawk? It was smaller in size than the usual RTH one sees at the park.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7428/13788552575_bb7a1aa9e3.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/n1rWi6)

Photos 5-6: Eastern Phoebe?
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3771/13788553795_4d8ddfe3fe.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/n1rWE8)
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2920/13788884874_e81d73c661.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/n1tD5o)

Title: Re: Downsview Bird ID
Post by: lovemypt on April 11, 2014, 09:19:25 PM

Hermit thrush, back colouring not red enough for Wood and spots in upper half, Wood thrush would be completely allover chest area
Coopers
Pheobe



sample Wood Thrush
(http://imageshack.com/a/img191/41/hlrj.jpg)
sample Pipit
(http://imageshack.com/a/img854/4904/11yb.jpg)

Title: Re: Downsview Bird ID
Post by: Rotarran on April 11, 2014, 09:54:48 PM

Wow you saw that at Downsivew?  Awesome!  I think the Hermit is a new species for Downsview...make sure you report it to ebird.  Yeah Hermits usually skulk about in the thickets...you'll never see a Pipit do that, especially not by itself.  Pipits usually frequent fields (farmland) in fairly sizable flocks.  

And the Cooper's Hawks is also a great sighting.  Due to the open habitat you don't typically get woodland birds at Downsview, especially woodland raptors.  

Same with the Phoebe.  All great sightings!  I was gonna go to the Spit tomorrow, but I think I might try for Downsview.   :D

Title: Re: Downsview Bird ID
Post by: Dinusaur on April 11, 2014, 11:09:04 PM

Thanks for helping with the IDs. Apart from the regulars I also saw a beautiful yellow-shafted Northern Flicker, a pair of hairy woodpecker and my first butterfly of the year, all in the woodlot area.

Title: Re: Downsview Bird ID
Post by: Rotarran on April 12, 2014, 10:15:51 AM

Excellent, thanks for contributing your sightings to ebird.  We're allmost at 100 species for Downsview, which when you consider that it's a park in the middle of city with only one major type of habitat (grasslands/fields), it's remarkable how many species we get.