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What is it??? (1 Viewer)
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Larry Lade
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I will try:
1. Social Flycatcher
2. Blue-gray Tanager & Red-capped Manakin
3. ?
1. Social Flycatcher
2. Blue-gray Tanager & Red-capped Manakin
3. ?
Chris in France
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Is the first one a Great Kiskadee? I was lucky enough to snap one of these in Mexico last year and your bird looks very much like mine........
Larry Lade
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Could the other bird in the Blue-gray Tanager photo be a Crimson-hooded Manakin?
#1 maybe a Piratic Flycatcher?
#1 maybe a Piratic Flycatcher?
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Chris in France
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Jacamar said:
OK, if it's neither Social Flycatcher nor a Great Kiskadee I'll go for the only other one that I know of that's similar and that's Boat-billed Flycatcher.
Chris in France
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Hmm...well I don't know what it is without looking up the books. Can't do that now since I'm about to sign off and I'm away for a couple of days. Will log on when I get back to learn the answer. Most intriguing!
Dave B Smith
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I'll add the Lesser Kiskadee to the list of possibles for number 1. And there's at least one more but I can't think of the name right now and don't have my guides with me.
samuel walker
It's OK to be a little blue........
photo #1 is a banaquit I believe.
Sam
Sam
Rasmus Boegh
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1) Rusty-margined Flycatcher (well, it has "rusty" margins on the wing, so why not).
3) World's dullest Yellow-green Grosbeak?
3) World's dullest Yellow-green Grosbeak?
Larry Lade
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And Chris said that these should be easy to ID! 
You guys think he was "pulling our leg"!
You guys think he was "pulling our leg"!
Rasmus Boegh
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Regarding 1: While there have been several good guesses, most of them are relatively straight forward to exclude. The question is if we're looking at a Rusty-margined or a Lesser Kiskadee. All the others mentioned in this thread either don't have the rufous margins to the wing or the white eye-brows meet differently at the back of the head. Usually (but not always, that is the problem in this case), the white eye-brows of the Lesser appear more drawn down towards the mantle (almost as much as in some Great Kiskadees). Thus my primary guess is Rusty-margined. As for #3 I just can't think of anything else but the Yellow-green Grosbeak that could look like that, but perhaps the hidden face/bill is fooling me and it certainly does look duller than any Yellow-green Grosbeak I remember seeing.
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Jacamar
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#1 is a Lesser Kiskadee. Good job, Dave. (I think Lesser Kiskadee was your guess?)
It had a long, thin bill compared to Rusty-margined, and its voice was very distinct as well.
#2. No one else wants to guess? Ok, here's a hint: The bird is bigger than it actually looks. In fact, it is slightly larger than the Blue-grey Tanager that is in the same photo.
#3. No, it's not a Yellow-green Grosbeak. Hint: Notice the white eyebrow.
Well I didn't think they would be too hard, but that's easy for me to say because I already know what they are.
It had a long, thin bill compared to Rusty-margined, and its voice was very distinct as well.
#2. No one else wants to guess? Ok, here's a hint: The bird is bigger than it actually looks. In fact, it is slightly larger than the Blue-grey Tanager that is in the same photo.
#3. No, it's not a Yellow-green Grosbeak. Hint: Notice the white eyebrow.
Larry Lade said:
Well I didn't think they would be too hard, but that's easy for me to say because I already know what they are.
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James Lowther
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Is no 3 a grayish saltator??
Rasmus Boegh
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2) Red-capped Cardinal? (and of course the Blue-grey Tanager guessed by Larry)
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