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  1. UtahnBirder

    Quintana Roo birding without a guide?

    I am going to Quintana Roo at the end of March and hope to do a fair bit of birding. It sounds like there's some great places to go in the area, like Si'an Kaan and Reserva Toh, but literally every review I read about these places mentions a guide. I haven't necessarily read anything that says...
  2. UtahnBirder

    Confirm Juv/Imm Song Sparrow -- Albany, CA, US

    I believe this to be a juvenile/immature Song Sparrow. Is that correct? Taken from the bayside fields near the Albany Mudflats earlier today. https://imgur.com/O5Bbq5I
  3. UtahnBirder

    Red-collared Lorikeet in Sydney Royal Botanical Garden

    I have photographic evidence of what I am quite sure is a Red-collared Lorikeet at the Sydney Royal Botanical Garden. It was hanging with a small group of Rainbow Lorikeets. Am I correct in assuming that this is a single escaped housepet? My field guide for Australia does not show these...
  4. UtahnBirder

    Clark's Nutcrackers in all-Juniper habitat

    Today I visited one of my favorite local hotspots, located at the mouth of a canyon. The floor of the canyon has some deciduous trees, but the entire face of the north ridge is nothing but Juniper. I am under the impression that Clark's Nutcrackers basically eat nothing but pine nuts, maybe...
  5. UtahnBirder

    Cassia Crossbill

    I live within a 4 hours drive of the Cassia Crossbill habitat and am thinking of going up this weekend to try my luck. Has anyone done this? What tips do you have from your experience? Is an iPhone adequate to record the voice to separate the Cassias from the Reds?
  6. UtahnBirder

    Savannah or Vespers Sparrow? Northern Utah

    This picture was taken at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge yesterday. I am torn between Savannah and Vespers. Let me know what you think, and please tell me what field marks you're using.
  7. UtahnBirder

    Sandpiper Help, Northern Utah

    My field notes are: Buff breast (not a band), clean white underparts, less distinct supercilium, only slightly decurved bill, legs don't seem to be yellow, wading with Avocets and Killdeer in wet mudflat. Looks to me most like a Baird's, but according to Sibley they don't like feeding in...
  8. UtahnBirder

    Double check me: Wilson's Warbler?

    Excuse me for being overly cautious, but this is a new species for me and the cap is not as black as I had hoped! Is this a Wilson's Warbler? Seen in Box Elder County, Utah today.
  9. UtahnBirder

    Brewers Sparrows? Northern Utah

    Are the birds in this picture Brewers sparrows? They were taken in a marshy riparian area. Something about them seems wrong for Brewers...too much contrast on the throat? Taken today. Album: https://imgur.com/a/cuCFWyH
  10. UtahnBirder

    Pale Eurasian or African Collared Dove? Northern Utah

    Two pictures: https://imgur.com/a/yQI6i The first picture shows two birds--the one on the top just above the line of rocks is my suspected African, the one below is Eurasian. The second pictures shows the low contrast between the tips of the primaries and the rest of the wing. African...
  11. UtahnBirder

    Sharpie vs. Coopers: Northern Utah

    Taken today in my backyard. I'm pretty sure this is a Sharpie but I'm new to IDing these birds so I wanted to make sure. https://imgur.com/eaIDh3G
  12. UtahnBirder

    New video on the progress of reintroduced Alala

    For those of you that don't know, the Alala (or Hawaiian Crow) went extinct in the wild in 2002. It is now being introduced to the Big Island. Here's a new video from the Alala Project on the birds' progress: https://vimeo.com/252588023
  13. UtahnBirder

    Strange squirrel behavior on my ground tray

    Has anyone else experienced this before? The other day, my ground feeding tray, which has a mix of millet and black oil sunflower seeds, was full of pine cones. I thought that was bizarre, threw them all out, and today the pine cones are back. I haven't seen a squirrel do this, but they are...
  14. UtahnBirder

    Taken today at Kealia Pond NWR, Maui, HI

    One duck and one gull, with multiple pictures for the gull. My guess is some weird domestic mallard and a laughing gull, but I'm particularly bad at ID'ing gulls. Any gull is a rarity in Hawaii, so I want to get the ID right. https://imgur.com/a/hgUf8
  15. UtahnBirder

    Raptor Help - Northern Utah

    Took these pictures yesterday at pretty high altitude in the Cache National Forest. My best guess on the first picture is a juv. Red-tailed Hawk. Last two pictures are the same individual. Lighting is real bad, but the lighter head and wing shape (not that I have particularly great skills...
  16. UtahnBirder

    Bird ID book for Germany

    At the end of the month, I'll be spending a week in Gummersbach (near Cologne). It's not a birding-only trip, but I would like to be able to get out at least a little and ID what I see. Any recommendations for a book? I use Sibley's here and love it. I greatly prefer illustrations to pictures...
  17. UtahnBirder

    Lincoln's or Song Sparrow? Northeast Utah

    Seen on a fallen, dead tree sticking out of reeds on the shallow, stagnant side of a pond in Ashley National Forest. Of course the stick was in the exact wrong spot for taking pictures of sparrows. Album here: http://imgur.com/a/qVNYx
  18. UtahnBirder

    Quail sp., Northern Utah

    I entered this bird as Gambel's Quail into eBird, which would be quite rare for my area. That sighting was rejected, which I assume means the bird is actually a California Quail. Help a relatively new birder out--this seems to have Gambel's Quail markings, so what are the best ways to...
  19. UtahnBirder

    Am I O.K. to mow the lawn?

    I've got a nest for robins in my yard in a tree that is about two feet from the lawn, and the robins are about 5.5 feet up in the tree. Will it stress them out too much to mow or not?
  20. UtahnBirder

    Today was GREAT

    Apparently two American Robins have decided to have a brood in my tree :) (Sorry if this is in the wrong forum, I didn't think it belonged in Nestboxes, because it isn't in a box!) Is there anything special I should be doing to make sure they have the best time possible? Also... I read that...
  21. UtahnBirder

    UtahnBirder's 2010 Year List

    Flying from Cozumel to Cancun, and then Cancun to SLC in airports all day is NOT the greatest way to start the year. Since this will be my first complete year of birding, I'm not going to set the bar too high. 100 will be the goal. Luckily at the Cozumel airport I did happen upon two birds. 1...
  22. UtahnBirder

    Christmas Goodies

    What bird stuff did you get for Christmas? I got a wooden suet-plug feeder, a hanging platform feeder, a seed scoop, a bad of Nut'n'Seed Mix, plus my young cousin made a finger-balancer American Robin for me. What was your haul?
  23. UtahnBirder

    UtahnBirder's 2010 Year List

    Flying from Cozumel to Cancun, and then Cancun to SLC in airports all day is NOT the greatest way to start the year. Since this will be my first complete year of birding, I'm not going to set the bar too high. 100 will be the goal. Luckily at the Cozumel airport I did happen upon two birds. 1...
  24. UtahnBirder

    Quick!!! Help!!!

    I've been procrastinating and it is too late to get a book... I leave for Cozumel (Yucatan Peninsula) tomorrow, and I would like a list of some birds that I would be likely to see! I have a world-wide bird book so I do have documentation of them, I just need a list of the common ones!
  25. UtahnBirder

    Sharp-Tailed Sparrow

    The ABA officially changed the names of Nelson's Sharp-Tailed Sparrow and Saltmarsh Sharp-Tailed Sparrow to Nelson's Sparrow and Saltmarsh Sparrow. So I suggest we change to opus to match.
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