Can you identify this bird?

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http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/picturesref/croworwhat.jpg

that's not a crow isn't it? it's beak seems too long and thin and it appears to be too round and chubby.
your thoughts/feel free to post bird pictures yourself etc

― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 30 June 2006 03:09 (nineteen years ago)

blue-breasted warbler

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 30 June 2006 03:20 (nineteen years ago)

Vulture?

Kidding - maybe a grackle?

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 30 June 2006 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

hum! from the google images I have just seen it really looks like it's a grackle. http://www.birdingmontreal.squirrelworks.ca/images/special_birds/grackle.jpg thank you Sara R-C ^_^

― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 30 June 2006 03:38 (nineteen years ago)

GRACKLE!

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 30 June 2006 07:43 (nineteen years ago)

aww. hes cute

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

i thought this was gonna be a thread for the stalkersaurii

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

why all the questions sebastien? some quiz or something or have you just moved continents? 8)

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

Sort of a black magpie that. Do they say 'grackle' or something?

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

That grackle needs to work on its hygiene.

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

That bird stole my credit card!

― Queen Sarah Saturday (coco), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

we have tons of them in our yard - there are babies now too that the parents are feeding

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

hellolo koogy well I just figure since I don't like to walk around with unanswered questions in mind I might as well act as if I was wearing google all time

― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 30 June 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

rooster

― John W. Smoke, Jr. (Uri Frendimein), Friday, 30 June 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

I believe that's a Hairy Chested Nut Scratcher. Good Specimen, too.

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 1 July 2006 02:24 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

grackle. Quiscale bronzé. I never remember that name.

so, any idea on the id of this couple of birds
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/picturesref/DSCN3436.jpg

― Sébastien, Saturday, 24 November 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

possibly Myna of some type

― Heave Ho, Saturday, 24 November 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

dude they are waxwings, pretty distinctive as these things go.

― Just got offed, Saturday, 24 November 2007 23:57 (eighteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waxwing

― Just got offed, Saturday, 24 November 2007 23:58 (eighteen years ago)

good spot btw! i've never seen one.

― Just got offed, Saturday, 24 November 2007 23:58 (eighteen years ago)

thanks lu, n how about these 2
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/picturesref/DSCN3384.jpg

― Sébastien, Sunday, 25 November 2007 01:19 (eighteen years ago)

I'm always loving the grackle.

― Abbott, Sunday, 25 November 2007 01:19 (eighteen years ago)

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/picturesref/DSCN3384.jpg

― Sébastien, Sunday, 25 November 2007 01:19 (eighteen years ago)

This is harder. At first glance I thought 'Crossbill', then 'Bullfinch'. Then I thought 'Crossbill' again. It would help if I knew where and in what habitat you saw these birds.

I'm now checking Wikipedia...

― Just got offed, Sunday, 25 November 2007 01:31 (eighteen years ago)

do you live in texas, sebastien?

― gershy, Sunday, 25 November 2007 01:33 (eighteen years ago)

...yeah, it's a Two-Barred Crossbill. You don't get them in Britain, but as the bird is clearly a crossbill of sorts, and has those white markings on its wings, it could only be this.

― Just got offed, Sunday, 25 November 2007 01:34 (eighteen years ago)

gershy
The Internets ideal of gershy, defined as combined cuteness and creepyness.
That thing is so gershy I just want to pick it up and fling it across the room!

http://www.exonet.qc.ca/gal/index.php?level=album&id=73 :)

― Sébastien, Sunday, 25 November 2007 07:27 (eighteen years ago)

All-New Ornithology Thread

good times.

― gr8080, Sunday, 25 November 2007 07:33 (eighteen years ago)

i need more challenges

― Just got offed, Monday, 26 November 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/Middle_damn_finger.jpg

― latebloomer, Monday, 26 November 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

can you identify this bird?

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5138/5541560380_28b60cc717.jpg

we were out at the marin headlands and saw about 6 of these - 2 like this, who would puff up all their feathers and fan their beautiful tales and generally act douchey to the other 4 smaller, less glamorous birds (i'm guessing this is a male). i don't know anything about birds but i'd be interested to find out what this is.

― just1n3, Sunday, 20 March 2011 00:41 (fifteen years ago)

Turkeys! Either wild or escaped.

― ka£ka (NickB), Sunday, 20 March 2011 00:45 (fifteen years ago)

really?!?

― just1n3, Sunday, 20 March 2011 00:55 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, that's a turkey!
This thread makes me miss grackles.

― Looking Man (Abbbottt), Sunday, 20 March 2011 00:57 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.drinkhacker.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/wild-turkey-101.jpg

― Looking Man (Abbbottt), Sunday, 20 March 2011 00:58 (fifteen years ago)

wow i didn't know they could look so awesome. guess it's bc i don't come from the land of turkeys.

but what is with that weird hair-like ponytail hanging from its chest

― just1n3, Sunday, 20 March 2011 00:59 (fifteen years ago)

Did you know Ben Franklin wanted them to be the U.S.'s national bird?

― Looking Man (Abbbottt), Sunday, 20 March 2011 01:00 (fifteen years ago)

also idk I wld guess the chest tuft is for seducing babes?

― Looking Man (Abbbottt), Sunday, 20 March 2011 01:00 (fifteen years ago)

That tufty bit gets referred to as a beard, but it's more of a chest wig thing imo.

― ka£ka (NickB), Sunday, 20 March 2011 01:02 (fifteen years ago)

something about it was really disturbing - i guess maybe bc it looked like a piece of hair cut off a dead person and glued to the bird's chest? but everything else about them was spectacular - weird iridescence on their heads.

― just1n3, Sunday, 20 March 2011 01:04 (fifteen years ago)

Domesticated turkeys actually look like this:

http://www.thewoodenrobot.com/images/HandTurkey.jpg

― Looking Man (Abbbottt), Sunday, 20 March 2011 01:07 (fifteen years ago)

my office backs onto a state park and we get tons of turkeys wandering around the parking lot or on the back patio...best is in mating season, they all sit up on the fence and try to out-impress the ladies, it's pretty awesome

― VegemiteGrrl, Sunday, 20 March 2011 01:09 (fifteen years ago)

I keep my distance though, I have a deep and abiding distrust of birds since I got chased by a goose when I was 10

― VegemiteGrrl, Sunday, 20 March 2011 01:10 (fifteen years ago)

yeah the one i posted the pic of was pretty bold - i had some bread and i was feeding them, and this one kept coming right up to me. i think if i hadn't been fast enough at handing out the crusts, it would've snatched them right out of my hand.

― just1n3, Sunday, 20 March 2011 01:14 (fifteen years ago)

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