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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Dinusaur on June 08, 2014, 05:42:55 PM

Title: Carden Bird ID
Post by: Dinusaur on June 08, 2014, 05:42:55 PM

Please help confirming ID of these birds.
#1 & #2: Great Crested Flycatcher? These are taken from a distance. There were two of them by the roadside and they seemed bigger than usual flycatchers, more like the size of a mockingbird.
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3846/14190582218_e998f36022_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nBYrGE)
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3890/14190765007_9ce2d543ef_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nBZo3c)

#3 & #4: Swamp Sparrow?
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3876/14354104266_da0bd83592_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nSqx7j)
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5528/14373857541_b258c5c417_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nUaM52)

Title: Re: Carden Bird ID
Post by: lovemypt on June 08, 2014, 06:00:03 PM

yes... first 2 are Created flycatcher, which are alot bigger than general flycatcher found around here...sort of like the Chat being in the warbler family, you can't always go by sizes to classify.  Will let someone else common on sparrow

Title: Re: Carden Bird ID
Post by: paul_reeves on June 08, 2014, 06:03:43 PM

Definitely on the Great Crested Flycatcher. They flew by me on Thursday while my camera (on the tripod) was pointed in the wrong direction. I'm not sure about the Swamp Sparrows since I haven't seen too many of them but according to my book they look like Swamps.

Nice shots.

Title: Re: Carden Bird ID
Post by: Henrique Pacheco on June 08, 2014, 06:22:11 PM

Right on both. Great crested flycatcher and swamp sparrow.