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    Possible Sharp-shinned Hawk, Florida, USA

    Yep, a Red-shouldered. It's smaller and more lightly built than the big buteos like Red-tailed Hawk, so it's easily confused with accipiters.
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    Common Nighthawks in daylight?

    I've seen these flying around at about 2 pm. It was cloudy, but not dark - I'm not sure why they'd be out.
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    A Garden List

    A Ruby-crowned Kinglet in the maple tree today. Some Mourning Doves on the telephone lines behind the yard, too.
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    Field work ... hard work!

    Those look sort of like owl feet ... Tawny Owl?
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    ABA Photo Quiz

    Orange-crowned Warbler? (Failing that, Lesser Headless Blur ;) )
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    Birder1844's photo quiz

    Chilly. But as for species ... immature Herring Gull?
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    Yellowstone to Yukon?

    Has anyone heard of this (site is here) and whether they are making any real progress? (Sometimes it's hard to tell from their official publicity how an organization is really doing.)
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    Birds and poetry

    Here is another by Millay. Doubt No More That Oberon by Edna St. Vincent Millay Doubt no more that Oberon— Never doubt that Pan Lived, and played a reed, and ran After nymphs in a dark forest, In the merry, credulous days,— Lived, and led a fairy band Over the indulgent land! Ah, for in...
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    Can different species mate?

    There have been (at least) two cases of chicken/guineafowl hybrids (in captivity). Since they're not even in the same FAMILY, that one is pretty amazing - it'd be like wolf/bear hybrids. Some bird groups (gulls, waterfowl, gamebirds) hybridize very easily.
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    good news

    Sounds like good news to me, but I don't know anything about it - I never realized there was a large British cattle industry. Interesting that there's no mention of TB spreading to humans ... seems to me that's what people would be worried about. Is that not possible in this case?
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Cornell; how to solve this once and for all I am not surprised that Cornell hasn't found any conclusive evidence; that's what I would expect even if IBWO was doing well in the area. Remeber that it was supposed to be very difficult to find when it was common; now, it must be a very endangered...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    The fact that there have been no better sightings in a paltry 3 years is no evidence against IBWO. Between the first claims of its extinction and the rediscovery of the species in the Singer Tract area was over a decade if I remember correctly, and 40 years passed between that and the Cuban...
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    Birds in art, ID help please

    OK, thanks. Here are more - two kinds of doves, and two things I don't know the family for.
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    USA bird quiz, hopefully not too difficult

    Yes, all correct.
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    Birds in art, ID help please

    No, they seem to be randomly from everywhere.
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    Birds in art, ID help please

    Can anyone help ID these pictures of birds? Some seem a bit stylized... some kind of dove maybe? a cuckoo some hornbill or other I think it's a Scarlet Tanager
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    I remain undecided, but lean towards survival because from what I've read about Ivory-bills, they were always difficult to see except in the Singer Tract and a few other areas. If there are Ivory-bills alive, I wouldn't expect many more sightings than what we have. This bird's been declared...
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    what is the most elusive bird?

    A Northern Potoo landed on the roof of the lodge we were staying at in Mexico. That individual wasn't very elusive.
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    ABA birding quiz

    European Starling and Red-bellied Woodpecker?
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    USA bird quiz, hopefully not too difficult

    1. This small flycatcher has only been seen once in North America, at High Island, TX. 2. This New Mexico wildlife refuge has huge numbers of Snow Geese and Sandhill Cranes. 3. There are 3 ptarmigan species in North America. What are they? 4. What chickadee can generally be found farthest...
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    USA bird quiz, hopefully not too difficult

    Yes!
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    USA bird quiz, hopefully not too difficult

    Correct (I really had genus Apus in mind for 4.)
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    USA bird quiz, hopefully not too difficult

    Round four!!! let's get serious Harder questions... 1. This dark Neotropical owl has been sighted twice in south Texas. 2. The farthest south record of Gyrfalcon in North America was where? 3. The scientific name of this genus means "little brother", but it is a feminine form! 4. This...
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    USA bird quiz, hopefully not too difficult

    Yep! Wow.
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