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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: MikeN on September 19, 2016, 06:10:13 PM

Title: Couple of questions from this morning
Post by: MikeN on September 19, 2016, 06:10:13 PM

Not sure about these ones.

Title: Re: Couple of questions from this morning
Post by: lucky tern on September 20, 2016, 11:36:35 AM

the first is a song sparrow...second not sure but could see it as a indigo bunting i think? (more by elimination than a positive id)

Title: Re: Couple of questions from this morning
Post by: MikeN on September 20, 2016, 07:23:06 PM

Thanks for that. Would that sparrow by a fledgling? I compared some photos of the female indigo bunting with mine and I think you hit that one right. Everything fits and they have been seen at Riverwood other times this week.

Title: Re: Couple of questions from this morning
Post by: lucky tern on September 21, 2016, 10:53:46 AM

I see nothing to indicate a recently fledged bird (not very good at aging birds) most of the birds born this year would have lost the yellow gape (beak hinge) that very recently fledged birds show.