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Help ID this bird - DP - 09-07-2016
It looks like a Brown Thrasher but... Look at the prominent white eye stripe, lack of prominent wing bars, and relatively short tail, although the perspective is highly compressed which may just make it look shorter. Thrasher's have yellow eyes and these look black.
OTOH, the bill looks like a Thrasher's and we first noticed it as it was singing in a tree and it would switch to a Cardinal's song, and a Thrasher is a mimid related to Mockingbirds. In the face-on image, there appears to be streaking on the breast although the shot is soft.
It looks rufous brown but it was shot at sunset (very orange light).
Thrasher or something else? A Wood Thrush is similar but has a shorter bill...
And, what the heck, a last picture of our hummer. It appears one of the residents has left. I've seen only one once in the last three days...
Re: Help ID this bird - OWC Jamie - 09-07-2016
looks like a carolina wren. bold and noisy loud as heck ?
Re: Help ID this bird - hal - 09-07-2016
don't see that guy around here...
Re: Help ID this bird - Acer - 09-07-2016
billb wrote:
looks like a carolina wren. bold and noisy loud as heck ?
First thought, too.
Re: Help ID this bird - Acer - 09-07-2016
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Re: Help ID this bird - DP - 09-07-2016
You all may be right. It seemed larger, tho, when I could see it up in the tree. There was another one a little ways away; we could hear it calling too.
Yes, it was loud and noisy but it seemed to be mimicking a Cardinal. Are Carolina Wrens mimids?
Re: Help ID this bird - OWC Jamie - 09-07-2016
DP wrote:
Are Carolina Wrens mimids?
They're troglodytes.
:-)
Re: Help ID this bird - NewtonMP2100 - 09-07-2016
....extinct dodo bird.....??
Re: Help ID this bird - DP - 09-07-2016
billb wrote:
[quote=DP]
Are Carolina Wrens mimids?
They're troglodytes.
:-)
Ha! But wrong... They're Thryothorus ludovicianus! I don't see Carolinas very much around here. We get them after a warm Winter and this one is the first I've seen in a few years.