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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Kris Ito on November 05, 2014, 11:34:33 AM

Title: Jaeger?
Post by: Kris Ito on November 05, 2014, 11:34:33 AM

Please don't tell me this is a gull! I'm thinking Pomarine but maybe Parasitic?? Observed this morning at Ashbridges Bay during a speedy pop-in visit. Flew surprisingly close to the south/east tip.
- kris

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7574/15533075150_29cafc546e_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pEB55w)Jaeger i.d. (https://flic.kr/p/pEB55w) by Kris Ito (https://www.flickr.com/people/95264878@N02/), on Flickr

Title: Re: Jaeger?
Post by: Pat Hodgson on November 05, 2014, 01:50:53 PM

Juvenile jaeger, yes.  I'm guessing beyond that but proportions look right for parasitic.

Title: Re: Jaeger?
Post by: thouc on November 05, 2014, 10:30:39 PM

Looks like a hint of pointed tail streamers, so I go with Parasitic too.

Title: Re: Jaeger?
Post by: Kris Ito on November 05, 2014, 10:41:54 PM

Thank you Pat and Thomas! I've also just received some feedback from another great birder who emailed this: "I think it’s a Parasitic because the tail tip is distinctly pointed. Juvenile Pomarine has an overall square-ended tail lacking the noticeable pointed extension as on your bird. At most a Pomarine’s central tail feathers are much shorter and rounded - barely visible. The large white patches at the base of the primaries especially noticeable on the left wing should rule out Long-tailed."

Parasitic Jaeger it is! A lifer for me  :D

-kris

Title: Re: Jaeger?
Post by: Rotarran on November 06, 2014, 08:35:21 AM

That's awesome!  Congrats and a great place to see one!

Title: Re: Jaeger?
Post by: Kris Ito on November 06, 2014, 09:54:54 AM

Thanks Elias! And thank gods I managed to snap that crappy photo or I never would have been able to confirm the species. It would have forever remained a "jaeger spuh" and my life list would be one short.

-kris  :D

p.s.  There was also a nice group of Pine Siskin and one lovely pure white Kumlien's Gull