Post your birds (2)

[Kevin H]

Great Blue Heron

 

[dh photography]

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[dh photography]

 

[Blacktop]

Ibis close up, (not cropped) taken with the 80-200mm f/2.8 lens.

 

[Blacktop]

 

[Friggs]

02282017-1-2 by William Friggle, on Flickr

 

[wev]

 

[wev]

 

[wev]

 

[Stoshowicz]

Mediocre Blue Heron

 

[Marilynne]

Is this a hybrid Cormorant - Double Crested and NeoTropic?

 

[Marilynne]

 

[Marilynne]

Cattle Egret

 

[wev]

Is this a hybrid Cormorant - Double Crested and NeoTropic?

Looks like it. There is a small colony of them now established at Wakodahatchee

 

[Marilynne]

Looks like it. There is a small colony of them now established at Wakodahatchee

Thanks wev.

I've seen the NeoTropics with the full V on the mouth at Wako. This is the first I've seen with just the white on the bottom.

 

[wev]

Thanks wev.

I've seen the NeoTropics with the full V on the mouth at Wako. This is the first I've seen with just the white on the bottom.

It looks like they are now in the fourth or fifth year of cross breeding, with hybrid/hybrid, BC/hybrid, and NT/hybrids pairings reported. I imagine all sorts of variants will be showing up as traits dominate and recede. Interesting case of isolated breed crossing.

 

[dh photography]

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

Wash your face before you eat

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

"Why birds are better than American politics: On a bird, the right wing and the left wing work together to lift up the center." ~Kenn Kaufman