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    What kind of Swan at Silver Salmon Lakes in Lake Clark National Park, Alaska?

    Thanks. I was wondering in the coloration might be from some local phenomenon.
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    What kind of Swan at Silver Salmon Lakes in Lake Clark National Park, Alaska?

    I took these photos in the midafternoon of 2024-07-18 at Silver Salmon Lakes in Lake Clark National Park, Alaska. Our guide identified this swan for us at the time, but I have since forgotten what he said. I'm guessing a Trumpeter Swan or a Tundra Swan, but none of my books show or mention the...
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    Duck at Silver Salmon Lakes in Lake Clark National Park, Alaska

    Thank you for the detailed information. I was afraid that was the case, but at least I now have more knowledge. Interestingly, there were several folks in the photography tour that volunteer at a bird rescue organization, but due to the limited capacity of the boat, they didn't see the...
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    Duck at Silver Salmon Lakes in Lake Clark National Park, Alaska

    Thank you. Now I see that the female Ring-necked duck images in my books are quite a good match. Is there any reliable way to know if the ducking is the same species?
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    Duck at Silver Salmon Lakes in Lake Clark National Park, Alaska

    These images were all taken in the afternoon of July 18, 2024, at Silver Salmon Lakes in Alaska's Lake Clark National Park. The first two images are of some kind of duck that was swimming around, calling, and occasionally flying low over the lake. None of the other folks that were there could...
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    Merganser in Santa Cruz, California

    Thank you David, especially for explaining what evidence you used for your identification. Hopefully that will help me in the future.
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    Merganser in Santa Cruz, California

    I took this photo shortly before noon near the mouth of the San Lorenzo River in Santa Cruz, California. I'm not sure whether it is Common or a Red-breasted Merganser (female).
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    Crow or Raven at the Southern California coast

    Walking back to my car at about 9 AM after photographing Peregrines for an hour at Point Fermin Lighthouse Park in San Pedro, California, I took a couple shots of what, at the time, I thought was a Raven. Looking at the images now, I less certain, and would be grateful for opinions on whether...
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    Shore bird in Huntington Beach, CA

    I usually do that, but unfortunately the bird didn't cooperate in this case. Thanks for the ID.
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    Shore bird in Huntington Beach, CA

    I took these photos of a short bird shortly after 7 AM on July 4, 2023 at Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve in Huntington Beach, California. I'm having a difficult time identifying it, so any help would be appreciated.
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    Santa Cruz, California Warber? ID help requested

    Thanks for you help everyone.
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    Santa Cruz, California Raptor help needed.

    KC, do you have an alternative suggestion?
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    Santa Cruz, California Warber? ID help requested

    Several times over a couple days I saw this bird flying to a beam under my next door neighbors balcony. Eventually, in the late afternoon of 2023-06-30, it flew from the beam and perched in a tree where I was able to take a photo. A couple minutes later it flew back under the balcony, and I...
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    Santa Cruz, California Raptor help needed.

    This is the closest I've got to an in-flight photo. Not sure if it helps. I do see red-tailed hawks around here frequently, but I wasn't thinking in that direction because I don't see the belly band.
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    Santa Cruz, California Raptor help needed.

    I took these two photos of this raptor shortly before noon on 2023 June 13 along West Cliff Drive in Santa Cruz, California. iNaturalist tells me its a Swainson's Hawk, but I'm a bit skeptical. I'd be grateful for any help with a definitive ID.
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    Adult Dark-eyed Junco feeding juvenile Dark-eyed Junco
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    juvenile Dark-eyed Junco
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    Sparrow or juvenile Junco at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California?

    Thanks folks.
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    Sparrow or juvenile Junco at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California?

    These two photos where taken in mid morning of 18, May 2023 on the campus of Stanford University while I was looking for woodpeckers (which I found later). The first is clearly an adult Dark-eyed Junco, and, I assume, a juvenile that the adult is feeding. The second photo is the one I'm...
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    SF Bay Area ID confirmation requested

    Yeah, the Ash-throated seemed to be the only one that frequents California, but the it was the yellowness of the belly that made me uncertain.
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    SF Bay Area ID confirmation requested

    I took these photos just before noon on 2023-04-22 at Ed R. Levin County Park in the hills east of Milpitas, CA. Based on the Seek app, that suggested it was in the genus Myiarchus, and what I see in my bird guides, I'm guessing its an Ash-throated Flycatcher, but I'm not very familiar with...
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    Northern California raptor ID help

    Thanks the the help everyone.
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    Northern California raptor ID help

    I took these photos of this raptor that was posing very cooperatively on the levee along the San Lorenzo River in Santa Cruz California where I went for a walk in the late afternoon of January 10, 2022 after the rains from earlier in the day finally stopped. I'm guessing a Sharp-shinned or a...
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    Two northern California birds from Christmas morning 2022

    Thanks for all the info everyone. I'm not really a birder, more of hobbyist wildlife photographer that takes a lot of pictures of birds because I see more of them than other wildlife. I do try to caption my photos accurately however, which is why I occasionally ask questions here. This is...
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    Two northern California birds from Christmas morning 2022

    That's fascinating. I've never photographed a yellow-rumped warbler before, and I'm not sure I've ever seen one, so its pretty interesting that my first one is the Myrtle variant. The photos I see, both online and in my bird books show the Myrtle having a white throat while the Audubon's is...
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