nikonpup
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looks like a fairly large water fowl, my guess it is a loon.
Can you help ID this bird please?
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BackdoorArts
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Best guess is Common Merganser.
Stoshowicz
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Is there a Cinnamon Teal hiding amongst the Blue-winged Teal? While walking along Bluebird Pond at Harris Neck Wildlife Refuge, we came upon this little group. Later, we learned from the Visitor's Center that Cinnamon Teal had been spotted. My Audubon app says they are normally in the west, rarely in the east. Anyone want to weigh in on it?
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Yep looks like a cinnamon teal , I read they sometimes cross with the blue winged but it could be a legit cinnamon , a few end up in the east. Tiny image though. I cant really tell at that size , could be a pochard or ferruginous duck or even an odd canvasback I suppose. But the flanks look right and its right in there with the blue winged.
Nice bird
Also agree with song sp , bushtit, wilson's pl and common merg.
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Silversailor
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I am thinking this is the winter plumage of a Horned Grebe. Found in tidal creek near Brunswick, GA.
Stoshowicz
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The winter plumages of eared and horned grebes are very similar, the tip of the bill appears white, the black is sharply delineated from the white cheek , which fits horned,, the neck looks rather gray in front which tends to point at eared,, but Im thinking if you crop in and lighten the face , you should see a red stripe between the eye and bill clinching that its a horned grebe ,.. which one would expect in GA.
I googled 'white duck red face' and got Muscovy Duck. Body colors vary from white to black, not native to your area. Might be a pet.
Silversailor
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Second time these two have been at my feeder in a week. Larger and plumper than finches and photos show more grey than brown. Actual color is somewhere in between. Rosy-Breasted Grosbeak or Dickcissel???
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Second time these two have been at my feeder in a week. Larger and plumper than finches and photos show more grey than brown. Actual color is somewhere in between. Rosy-Breasted Grosbeak or Dickcissel???
Looks like an female Rose-Breasted Grosbeak
Rose-breasted grosbeak photo - Pheucticus ludovicianus - G136532 | ARKive
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Silversailor
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Second time these two have been at my feeder in a week. Larger and plumper than finches and photos show more grey than brown. Actual color is somewhere in between. Rosy-Breasted Grosbeak or Dickcissel???
Rose-breasted Grosbeak female
Shore Birds Expert bird folk on another forum say there are three different ones?? I see Dunlin and Semipalmated Sandpiper anyone see sanderling??@Stoshowicz PS not shot's I'd save
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Stoshowicz
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Clearly theres a few Dunlin, ,, the really short bodied ones where the back is lighter than the rather darker primary coverts , I wouldve called sanderlings , I would call the ones which have primary coverts about the same as the back color and darkish underwings semipalms... but to tell you the truth, the size of the individual birds in these pix ,,the varied angle and lighting of a flock , precludes a hard and fast ID .. But If someone has a better recipe for reading them in flight like this , I would be interested too.
