Outdoor Ontario

Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Turtlebird on September 29, 2009, 12:25:37 PM

Title: I need help with these birds please!
Post by: Turtlebird on September 29, 2009, 12:25:37 PM

Hi, here are a bunch of birds I'm having trouble identifying.  I'll include locations too.  

1.  Gull with white-tipped bill - Maitland River, Goderich ON
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y33/Corphish/IMG_1261.jpg)


2.  Tobermory, ON
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y33/Corphish/IMG_2616.jpg)

3.  Long Point, ON
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y33/Corphish/IMG_8821.jpg)

4.  Woodstock, ON
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y33/Corphish/IMG_9112.jpg)

5.  Woodstock, ON (terrible pic, sorry)
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y33/Corphish/IMG_9437.jpg)

Many thanks to anyone who can ID these birds!

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Post by: Brian Bailey on September 29, 2009, 01:08:35 PM

#1 looks like a Herring Gull.  I don't know why the bill tip is white.
#2 looks like a Water Pipit
#3 is a Savannah Sparrow
#4 is a Ruby-crowned Kinglet
#5 is probably a female Cowbird based on the profile and the general lack of markings.  

BB

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Post by: thouc on September 29, 2009, 09:22:32 PM

I agree with the IDs above.

Number 2 is nowadays called American Pipit, which is the North American race of Buff-bellied Pipit, which became a species when the Water Pipit was split into three different species. See e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buff-bellied_Pipit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buff-bellied_Pipit)

/Thomas

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Post by: Turtlebird on September 30, 2009, 02:22:42 PM

Thank you!!