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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2017 18:38:42 GMT -5
It was the first one in the spoiler.
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Mar 6, 2017 20:08:34 GMT -5
Post by Πιghtωιηg on Mar 6, 2017 20:08:34 GMT -5
That's a Common Merganser.
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Mar 6, 2017 21:47:02 GMT -5
Post by Kuragehime on Mar 6, 2017 21:47:02 GMT -5
Oh nice! I always get so excited when I see a merganser, probably because usually all I see are mallards xD
I don't really have anything new to report, other than there are a LOT of juncos around my campus. This surprised me, because I'd never seen them south of the Sierra Nevada here in CA. They're so cute :3
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Post by Πιghtωιηg on Mar 7, 2017 7:55:03 GMT -5
I see mallards and probably at some point a black duck, but they're so similar that I'm not confident in saying that I have. Mergansers are cool. Never seen one though. I just found out yesterday that one of my friends is really into birding, so yay.
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Post by Kuragehime on Mar 8, 2017 2:10:31 GMT -5
Nice! It's always nice finding other birders
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Post by Πιghtωιηg on Mar 8, 2017 7:57:46 GMT -5
Yup. We had an extensive discussion about birds before our lacrosse game yesterday. One of my friends (about 5' 4") hit somebody so hard in that game that he probably broke the kid's collarbone. I'm not even exaggerating. This is why that guy scares me.
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Mar 8, 2017 21:15:01 GMT -5
Post by Kuragehime on Mar 8, 2017 21:15:01 GMT -5
Yikes On a birding note, I saw a flock of white-crowned sparrows this morning~
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 21:18:49 GMT -5
I love White crowned Sparrows. They look satisfactied and are my Moms favorite bird.
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Post by Πιghtωιηg on Mar 9, 2017 7:58:42 GMT -5
Yeah, those are nice-looking. I saw a passenger pigeon this morning.
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Mar 9, 2017 22:54:42 GMT -5
Post by Kuragehime on Mar 9, 2017 22:54:42 GMT -5
Yup, they're so cute :3
Whoa nice!
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Mar 10, 2017 9:16:42 GMT -5
Post by Πιghtωιηg on Mar 10, 2017 9:16:42 GMT -5
okay, I can't tell whether or not you're being serious. because I was joking.
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Mar 10, 2017 10:07:09 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 10:07:09 GMT -5
yooo i was getting ready for school yesterday morning and i saw a bird i dont think ive ever seen before? it was sparrow sized, with a dark brown/black body (it was on the neighbor's roof, couldnt see it too awfully well) but it had a red head that almost resembled a cardinal's shape? was it somethin different or just a hybrid of sorts? i live in southeastern iowa btw
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 10:29:03 GMT -5
I looked up Iowa birds and saw this and thought it fit your description the most: It's a Vermilion Flycatcher- there seem to be a lot of variation, some are more orange, some are more red, some are darker brown and some are lighter brown. If it's not that I can't think of anything else it could have been at least as a known resident of Iowa other a woodpecker.
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Mar 10, 2017 11:06:47 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 11:06:47 GMT -5
maybe, it does look about right!
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Mar 13, 2017 18:46:45 GMT -5
Post by Πιghtωιηg on Mar 13, 2017 18:46:45 GMT -5
That's cool. They're pretty.
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Mar 13, 2017 22:47:43 GMT -5
Post by Kuragehime on Mar 13, 2017 22:47:43 GMT -5
Nice!
That moment when you're walking through campus and hearing all kinds of songbirds, but you can't see them and aren't very good at birding by ear yet ;-;
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Mar 14, 2017 12:40:50 GMT -5
Post by Πιghtωιηg on Mar 14, 2017 12:40:50 GMT -5
i feel like that literally every day
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Mar 14, 2017 14:16:23 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by Kuragehime on Mar 14, 2017 14:16:23 GMT -5
It's so frustrating >~<
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Mar 14, 2017 18:12:54 GMT -5
Post by Πιghtωιηg on Mar 14, 2017 18:12:54 GMT -5
Yeah. I know.
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Mar 14, 2017 19:44:24 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2017 19:44:24 GMT -5
Do cedar waxwings normally live in the mountains?
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Mar 16, 2017 2:00:50 GMT -5
Post by Kuragehime on Mar 16, 2017 2:00:50 GMT -5
I think they can, they are woodland/forest birds. I've seen them I think once, and the little flock was in the mountains
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Mar 17, 2017 10:58:50 GMT -5
Post by Πιghtωιηg on Mar 17, 2017 10:58:50 GMT -5
I've never seen any, and I don't live in the mountains, so by my flawless logic, yes. But yeah, I think so.
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Mar 31, 2017 8:07:11 GMT -5
Post by Πιghtωιηg on Mar 31, 2017 8:07:11 GMT -5
Guess what I saw on Wednesday?
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Mar 31, 2017 11:01:31 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by Kuragehime on Mar 31, 2017 11:01:31 GMT -5
What did you see? o:
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Post by Πιghtωιηg on Apr 1, 2017 7:55:30 GMT -5
A red-shouldered hawk AND a pied-billed grebe. I was just like, "Why is that red-tailed hawk's tail only red on top, and not that red? And what's with the red patches on the wings?" "oh, that's why"
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Post by Kuragehime on Apr 2, 2017 1:11:51 GMT -5
lol nice!
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Post by Πιghtωιηg on Apr 8, 2017 7:52:37 GMT -5
I went to Florida over spring break. Guess how many new species I saw.
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Post by Kuragehime on Apr 9, 2017 2:23:37 GMT -5
Lucky! Last time I went to Florida was years ago, and I didn't get to do any birding ;-;
Um, I'm going to guess a lot? xD
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2017 14:13:01 GMT -5
I just got back from Hawaii. I've rarely left the western U.S., let alone North America, so it was definitely a shock seeing all the birds there. I saw my first Common Myna. I was like ahhhhhh exotic bird it sounds so exotic and looks so pretty eeek. I treated it like the most unique bird in the world and I was so exited. Then after a while I realized there were a lot of them. Like, everywhere. On the island I was on- Maui - you can't go anywhere without seeing one. So I looked the bird up and saw this: ... and I'm like, oh, I just stumbled upon the equivalent of the European starling in the south pacific xP but hey, it all depends on your perspective, right? To me it was a brand new and exciting bird, but to natives it was a pest. Yet if the natives were to visit Kansas and saw the European Starling, they'd be pretty excited. Which is kinda funny. I did see some actually native and exotic birds there though. I saw a lot of Zebra Doves, which were really small and cute and I couldn't get enough of them. Pacific Plovers were pretty common as well as the less common Spotted Dove, which was larger and plainer. I saw 1 Nene, which was exciting cause I've heard a lot about them and how they saved from extinction. And plenty of others. I even saw a really cool Crested Cardinal.
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Apr 9, 2017 14:14:45 GMT -5
Post by Πιghtωιηg on Apr 9, 2017 14:14:45 GMT -5
TWENTY
In taxonomic order: Blue-Winged Teal Wood Stork Double-Crested Cormorant Anhinga Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Cattle Egret White Ibis Glossy Ibis Sandhill Crane Black-Necked Stilt Willet Sanderling Royal Tern Eurasian Collared-Dove Red-Bellied Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker Fish Crow Northern Mockingbird Eastern Towhee
The towhee and mockingbird were in Atlanta; everything else was Florida, near Daytona. The cranes were my favorite. I got within 5 feet of the three of them. They were the most majestic thing I'd ever seen. I'll post pictures once I work my way through them.
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