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Off Topic => Anything Goes => Topic started by: Brian Bailey on April 26, 2011, 12:53:28 PM

Title: JJA 226th Birthday
Post by: Brian Bailey on April 26, 2011, 12:53:28 PM

If you visit Google (http://www.google.ca/) today, they are commemorating the 226th birthday of John James Audubon.

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Post by: MEGHAN on April 26, 2011, 02:32:27 PM

I noticed that as well.
Well I noticed the birds but did not know what it was for.
Thanks for the info Brian

Meg

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Post by: Ron Luft on April 26, 2011, 03:23:47 PM

and here I was thinking there was a bunch of birders on staff at Google celebrating spring.

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Post by: Brian Bailey on April 26, 2011, 07:29:11 PM

Okay, now for the hard part:  name those birds!

1) Red-Shouldered Hawk
2) Kestrel pair
3) what's with those tail feathers?!  Maybe a Mourning Warbler or a Green Jay?
4) Western Kingbird (or Tropical oCassin's)
5) Northern Caracara pair
6) Long-eared Owl
7) ??? an empidonax flycatcher or maybe a White-eyed Vireo?

Those are my my guesses.

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Post by: Reuven_M on April 26, 2011, 07:34:27 PM

The pictures are directly taken from audubon's work. You're mostly right:
3) Great Crested Flycatcher
4) Western Kingbird
7) Acadian flycatcher

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Post by: Brian Bailey on April 26, 2011, 07:49:18 PM

#3 a Great Crested Flycatcher?  :?   Definitely not one of his better efforts!

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Post by: Reuven_M on April 26, 2011, 07:55:50 PM

agree totally

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Post by: feathered on April 26, 2011, 08:06:22 PM

And a Harris's Hawk!

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Post by: Brian Bailey on April 26, 2011, 08:54:23 PM

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And a Harris's Hawk!

Oops, I forgot that one.  (between 3 & 4) That was actually the first one I got:  a bit garish, but identifiable.

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Post by: JW Mills on April 26, 2011, 09:50:46 PM

What about the butterfly?
A Pearl Crescent perhaps.