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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: linda on September 12, 2009, 05:31:03 PM

Title: Please help i.d. this bird
Post by: linda on September 12, 2009, 05:31:03 PM

It's about the size of a crow.  The eyes, small beak, and legs/feet are orange/red.  It's back is tan and the wings have white and brown stripes. The head is dove/gull shaped with a strong distinctive black mask stripe across the eyes that joins back up at the neck/breast.  The lower half of the face (below the beak) is white.  Any ideas?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v127/ ... s/bird.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v127/strangeworlds/bird.jpg)

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Post by: linda on September 12, 2009, 07:32:54 PM

What do you know...I found out it's a Chukar.  I have know idea where it came from, but it certainly doesn't belong in a residential neighbourhood!  Does anyone know whom I should contact about this situation?

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Post by: Misty01 on September 13, 2009, 09:36:00 AM

Toronto Humane Society or Toronto Wildlife Centre or even the SPCA
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Chukar/id (http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Chukar/id)
above is a website about the bird good luck!