Guess the species? #5

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There we have it. It is indeed the Audubon's race of the Yellow-rumped Warbler. Quite common around here this time of year.

Here's a slightly different bad photo to show it better.

So to recap:

1) Yellow-rumped Warbler - Chlidonias
2) Prairie Falcon - Beardsleyzoofan
3) Say's Phoebe - Chlidonias
4) Yellow Warbler - Chlidonias
5) Lewis's Woodpecker - Chlidonias

Congratulations Chlidonias, you are the global birding champion. Your turn.
 

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you should have used that photo instead!

I'll post some reciprocal bad wild bird photos later today.....


Seriously though, you do have some stunning birds in North America.
 
Chlidonias said:
you should have used that photo instead!

I'll post some reciprocal bad wild bird photos later today.....


Seriously though, you do have some stunning birds in North America.
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I thought that it would have been too easy :D

Looking forward to it.
 
here we go: five birds, all in the wild. I've seen some pretty obscure birds so I've tried to make these ones guessable (rather than a silhouetted blood-breasted flowerpecker or whatever that no-one's even heard of)

Actually they may be too easy!
 

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Hmm.. I missed all the answers nrg800 posted, and now the pics are on the other page. :D

Ok, one of them (the black and yellow one), I think, is a regent bowerbird.

It took me 2 minutes to even spot the green bird in the grass, and my thoughts were ground parrot, night parrot, or kakapo. I am not sure if you saw the first two in the wild (especially the night parrot!!) so I will have to guess "kakapo".
 
nanoboy said:
Hmm.. I missed all the answers nrg800 posted, and now the pics are on the other page. :D

Ok, one of them (the black and yellow one), I think, is a regent bowerbird.

It took me 2 minutes to even spot the green bird in the grass, and my thoughts were ground parrot, night parrot, or kakapo. I am not sure if you saw the first two in the wild (especially the night parrot!!) so I will have to guess "kakapo".
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well I haven't seen kakapo in the wild, and I definitely haven't seen night parrot in the wild :D.....

(Black and yellow bird is not a regent bowerbird)
 
well done, it is indeed a ground parrot at Melaleuca (Tasmania). You did do well actually -- I used the same photo in a quiz on Birdforum ages ago and nobody could even find the bird :D
 
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well done, it is indeed a ground parrot at Melaleuca (Tasmania). You did do well actually -- I used the same photo in a quiz on Birdforum ages ago and nobody could even find the bird :D
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Why thank you! I'll have to be contented with the cudos (or is it kudos?) because I don't know any of the other birds. :D
 
Moorhen? I didn't think the adult's leg looked green but I suppose it is in the shade, and there is no yellow on the chick
 
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Moorhen? I didn't think the adult's leg looked green but I suppose it is in the shade, and there is no yellow on the chick
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very very close.

The hint for this game is that nrg800 knew them all very well
 
no, you have moved much further away from Pygathrix's guess (as in Pygathrix was thinking in a northern hemisphere way and hence was not specific enough)
 
When you said he was close, you wanted specifics, as in "dusky moorhen", or it was not a moorhen at all but quite similar? (Those purple swamphens and dusky moorhens look quite similar, by the way.)

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