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    Confirm Juv/Imm Song Sparrow -- Albany, CA, US

    Note also the white outer tail feathers. Here is a similar image of a juvenile Spotted Towhee: https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&id=055759DA5E45242F5EACA67A873CA88000FE8B65&thid=OIP.5Gd8oCt58y9kkyiYFkw1OAHaFI&exph=443&expw=640&q=spotted+towhee+juvenile&selectedindex=19&vt=0&eim=0,1
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    Confirm Juv/Imm Song Sparrow -- Albany, CA, US

    If you look at the scapular region, you can see the spots developing that would indicate juvenile Spotted Towhee. A Song Sparrow would not have those spots.
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    Confirm Juv/Imm Song Sparrow -- Albany, CA, US

    Looks better for a juvenile Spotted Towhee to me.
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    unknown pelagic, San Diego

    It's a juvenile Brown Booby.
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    United States bird identification help

    Here is a useful reference for feather ID in the US: https://www.fws.gov/lab/featheratlas/
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    Lazuli Bunting?

    Indigo Buntings do occur around Mono Lake in the summer. You can find that with a species search in eBird. Here is the entry regarding breeding range from BNA: In California generally scarce, most regular at South Fork Kern River Valley, Mono Lake, Monterey Co. and San Diego (Beedy and Granholm...
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    Bird from Madera Canyon in SE Arizona

    Females and juveniles are duller and grayer below, and all reportedly have rusty undertail coverts in definitive basic plumage.
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    sea bird

    The gray-blue gular pouch would support a leucistic Brandt's Cormorant.
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    Woodpecker drumming Ontario canada

    In order to see the spectrogram from your recording you would have to open the recording with appropriate software, such as Audacity, a free software program for both PCs and Macs. Good sources for comparison spectrograms and recordings are xeno-canto.org and macaulaylibrary.org.
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    Woodpecker drumming Ontario canada

    Looking at the spectrogram, the drumming is about 20 beats per second, which is too slow for Hairy and a bit too fast for Pileated. The best options based on the beat frequency would be Black-backed, American Three-toed, or Northern Flicker. I'm not sure whether range would help you sort those out.
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    Bird SONGS st joseph island ontario canada

    Sounds like American Robin calls at the beginning and cheerio song at the end.
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    Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, MA bird identification help

    Why isn't number one a Red-throated Loon? The thin upturned bill and white lores look better for Red-throated to me.
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    Mew Gulls?

    Location and date? 1 and 2 look good for Mew Gull, but 3 and 5 look better for Glaucous-winged. 4 doesn't look like a Mew Gull to me. It could be a California Gull, but I wouldn't draw any conclusions about 3-5 without knowing location and date.
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    Night Bird Sound? - Massachusetts USA

    Those are Great Horned Owls. You'll find many similar recordings on the Macaualay Library website and on Xeno-Canto.org
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    Is this a Velociraptor or a Bird Call?

    It's difficult to hear much in the video, but a juvenile Great Horned Owl sould be a possibility. Here is a similar call from one: http://www.xeno-canto.org/330650
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