Outdoor Ontario

Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: cosmo3667 on May 14, 2014, 09:59:16 PM

Title: Looking to positively ID this Thrush
Post by: cosmo3667 on May 14, 2014, 09:59:16 PM

Wood Thrush? or maybe a Swainsons
(http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t643/arvopi/WoodThrush1_zps3973d19a.jpg) (http://s1318.photobucket.com/user/arvopi/media/WoodThrush1_zps3973d19a.jpg.html)

(http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t643/arvopi/WoodThrush2_zps62ba030d.jpg) (http://s1318.photobucket.com/user/arvopi/media/WoodThrush2_zps62ba030d.jpg.html)

(http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t643/arvopi/WoodThrush3_zps78ec1c63.jpg) (http://s1318.photobucket.com/user/arvopi/media/WoodThrush3_zps78ec1c63.jpg.html)

(http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t643/arvopi/WoodThrush4_zpsb184b1fc.jpg) (http://s1318.photobucket.com/user/arvopi/media/WoodThrush4_zpsb184b1fc.jpg.html)

Title: Re: Looking to positively ID this Thrush
Post by: American Redstart on May 14, 2014, 10:06:27 PM

Wood Thrush.

Title: Re: Looking to positively ID this Thrush
Post by: cosmo3667 on May 14, 2014, 10:35:43 PM

Quote from: "American Redstart"

Wood Thrush.

Thanks thats what I had Labelled i but saw a near identical bird on another site Id as a Swainson so thought I;d better confirm

Title: Re: Looking to positively ID this Thrush
Post by: BetCrooks on May 14, 2014, 11:23:48 PM

Wood Thrush's have the warm orangey-red colour on the head and back like in these lovely photos of yours. Swainson's don't: they are kind of dully coloured on the back.

Title: Re: Looking to positively ID this Thrush
Post by: cosmo3667 on May 15, 2014, 07:30:34 PM

Quote from: "BetCrooks"

Wood Thrush's have the warm orangey-red colour on the head and back like in these lovely photos of yours. Swainson's don't: they are kind of dully coloured on the back.

Thank-you  this guy actually had flown into a window and flew to this perch to recover