Re: Bird ID Help, please.
Re: Bird ID Help, please.
Is this one a possibility?
Re: Bird ID Help, please.
Michael, As I mentioned in my post, we have eastern bluebirds, We have them but the bird in question isn't one. The X-Bird is smaller and slimmer than a bluebird and has a much more vivid red-orange belly. I'm not sure but don't think an eastern bluebird woudl nest on the ground when there are so many alternatives. Last spring I had a nest of them in my tractor shed (open to the south.)
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Blue, Nice sites! Thanks for posting. I will certainly revisit those. Unfortunatley I tried to find the X-Bird using the facilities at those sites and failed. In all cases my search parameters yielded a bird or birds with which I am familiar BUT that was definitely NOT the X-Bird.
Still, I'm sure I'll get use out of at least two of the three sites. One of them is much less convenient but I used it anyway hoping to find the X-Bird.
Red-orange on the belly/breast and blue on the back fits several birds common to my area but none would be mistaken for the X-Bird due to size, exact distribution of color, or "other." Barn swallow, belted kingfisher, painted and other buntings, and the like are what I found in the searches but none are really very close.
I'd hate to do what Audubon himself would have done to ID the bird for sure.
NOTE to bird lovers: Charley Audubon shot the birds he painted in order to be able to examine them closely. This is a facet of the "GREAT NATURALIST" that is not prominently disclosed.
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Pat, perhaps a trip to area 51 may be in order to locate the x-bird. [img]/forums/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
Egon [img]/forums/images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
Re: Bird ID Help, please.
[img]/forums/images/icons/blush.gif[/img] Sorry, I missed that in the post.
Re: Bird ID Help, please.
Egon, Although "The truth is out there" you can "trust no one", least of all the folks at area 51. Although previously deeply involved with a famous blackbird and various black birds they aren't particularly "into" Blue and red-orange birds.
Though accused of "harboring" some "visitors", in general their welcome mat has ben retired as regards the lay public.
I have been near this and similar environs many times and have an appreciation for just how unlikely the habitat is for the bird in question.
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Darned; no area 51 tour! [img]/forums/images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
I beleive you have had some very warm weather and strong winds this past year. Perhaps a book depicting Birds found farther south or even offshore may be in order.
Egon [img]/forums/images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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As an aside; do you think a composite material glider would be able to successfully complete a midnight landing on Groom Lake? [img]/forums/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
Egon [img]/forums/images/icons/grin.gif[/img]