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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Napper on April 28, 2006, 08:27:05 PM

Title: looks like a chirpie on steriods what is it?
Post by: Napper on April 28, 2006, 08:27:05 PM

was near  8:00pm  this evening   redish  top of head, heavily barred, looks like a really, really  big chirpy

image quality  not so good. can't find it in a guide??? any ideas....    thanx Napper .  The Chripies around are really tiny  in comparison to this bird.  I thought

song sparrow but the mark on the chest isn't really distinctive..

(http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/9067/whatisthis4ux.jpg)   :lol:

Title: Female Red-winged Blackbird
Post by: Iain on April 28, 2006, 08:50:49 PM

Looks like you got a female Red-winged Blackbird.

Iain

Title: Female redwing
Post by: Napper on April 28, 2006, 09:17:59 PM

thanx...

After I posted it, I had a  couple of really good reviews of my guides . then I  had  a look at the Cornell site  and its almost a dead ringer..

http://content.ornith.cornell.edu/UEWeb ... 0040_S.jpg (http://content.ornith.cornell.edu/UEWebApp/images/MPR_073102_100040_S.jpg)

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBi ... kbird.html (http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Red-winged_Blackbird.html)


Isn't that funny I don't think I have ever seen a female  rwblb . Napper    :lol:  

did yoo have any luck with the image posting thing?