Outdoor Ontario

Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Turtlebird on October 13, 2009, 01:48:54 PM

Title: Need help with three birds please
Post by: Turtlebird on October 13, 2009, 01:48:54 PM

I got these birds at Point Pelee yesterday...

1.
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y33/Corphish/IMG_3176.jpg)

2.
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y33/Corphish/IMG_3198.jpg)

Finally, another gull that I just thought looked a bit different than the rest.  It's a juvenile, but the tip of it's bill is all black unlike ring-bills and it's wings seemed to have more black.  It could be a juvenile herring gull but I thought they had all-black bills?

3.
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y33/Corphish/IMG_3151.jpg)

Any help would be much appreciated!!

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Post by: raypye on October 13, 2009, 06:18:09 PM

1. If it was flicking its tail, it is an Eastern Phoebe
2. Brown-headed Cowbird (juveile)
3. Ring-billed Gull: 1st winter plumage (see National Geographic Field Guide)
Rayfield Pye

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Post by: cloaca on October 13, 2009, 06:38:30 PM

Indigo Bunting.

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Post by: Iain on October 13, 2009, 07:51:25 PM

I agree with female Indigo Bunting for #2.  The beak isn't heavy enough for cowbird.