Outdoor Ontario

Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Tom Cudzilo on August 20, 2006, 08:40:22 AM

Title: Need ID (4)
Post by: Tom Cudzilo on August 20, 2006, 08:40:22 AM

Hooded Mergansers - Juvies??
(http://crazyravr.smugmug.com/photos/89288559-M.jpg)

Common Goldeneye - juvie ???
(http://crazyravr.smugmug.com/photos/89288561-M.jpg)

Common Eider - Juvie ??? (whats it doing on lake Ontario)
(http://crazyravr.smugmug.com/photos/89288562-M.jpg)

No idea what this one might be...
(http://crazyravr.smugmug.com/photos/89288560-M.jpg)

Thank you for any help.

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Post by: Kin Lau on August 20, 2006, 11:39:55 AM

#1 looks like a Common Merg family. The sharp white throat on the mother is distinctive.

#2 Looks like a female Canvasback.

#3 Juvie Male Goldeneye looks right

#4 might be juv Cow bird or Juv Euro Starling.. I'd lean toward Starling due to the sharper beak.

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Post by: Brian Bailey on August 20, 2006, 02:46:05 PM

Kin, did you reverse #2 & #3?

I'd agree with the Common Mergansers for #1, and the female Canvasback for #3.

I'd say that #2 is a female Hooded Merganser.  (I don't think a juvenile would have a yellow eye yet.)  The head profile looks a bit odd, but that's a merganser bill.  A Goldeneye's bill is quite stubby.

#4 looks like a juvenile Starling.  It's looking at the camera, but the bill looks to be very long and pointy, plus the pink legs narrow the choices.

BB

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Post by: Tom Cudzilo on August 20, 2006, 03:22:24 PM

Thank you guys for replies.

So basically....

#1 Common Mergansers Juveis
#2 Female Hooded Merganser
#3 Female Canvasback (I knew this could not have been an eider as someone told me)
#4 Juvy Starling (makes sense since two feet to the right of him was an adult starling.

Thank you guys.

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Post by: Kin Lau on August 20, 2006, 05:58:20 PM

Quote from: "Brian Bailey"

Kin, did you reverse #2 & #3?

Looks like it  :oops:

Juvie Hoodie for #2 looks good.