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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Anonymous on August 12, 2009, 04:53:50 PM

Title: ID Request
Post by: Anonymous on August 12, 2009, 04:53:50 PM

I'm thinking it's a juvenile Mockingbird, any other suggestions??

(http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq326/WingsofFuryPhotography/Songbirds/ImmatureMockingbird2.jpg)

(http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq326/WingsofFuryPhotography/Songbirds/ImmatureMockingbird.jpg)

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Post by: raypye on August 12, 2009, 05:41:44 PM

Juvenile Mockingbird is a much lighter gray and it has streaking on its breast.
Gray Catbird
Rayfield Pye

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Post by: Bluffs Birder on August 12, 2009, 05:59:08 PM

Definitely a Gray Catbird.  The first photo is great.  :D

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Post by: Anonymous on August 12, 2009, 06:48:14 PM

Thanks folks, another one that I've never seen before. :)

Hopefully I'll be able to catch an adult sometime this summer before they fly south.

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Post by: Brian Bailey on August 12, 2009, 08:55:26 PM

Aside from looking quite ruffled, I don't see anything that suggests this isn't an adult.  They are very plain.

Catbirds are closely related to mockingbirds so your first guess was close.

BB

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Post by: Anonymous on August 13, 2009, 08:03:53 AM

Thank Brian - I was thinking immature since it didn't have the very defined colour characteristics of the adult bird which I thought it was.

Possibly just going through a molt??