Several to ID, NE Oklahoma USA (1 Viewer)

OK_Scissortail

Oklahoma State Bird

• Jan 3, 2009

• #1

Here are a few birds I found today along with a new duck. Any help is appreciated.

1st photo- I think is a juvenile Bald Eagle..several adults around.
2nd photo- I am guessing as a common goldeneye?
3rd photo-warbler?
4th photo-a type of wren?
5th photo-egret, heron?

It was a good day for birding..saw 5 Bald Eagles, Pelicans, gulls, cormorants, a pileated woodpecker that my family saw for a split second and was gone before I could even take a photo of it..rats!! So hard to ever see and when we do..poof gone. I may see one in another year.

 

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ceasar

Well-known member

• Jan 3, 2009

• #2

I'll bite!
1. Agree.
2. Agree.
3. Yellow Rumped Warbler.
4. (Tough) House Wren? Maybe Winter, note stubby tail.
5. GB Heron.

Bob

 

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MLoyko

d[-_-]b

• Jan 3, 2009

• #3

I agree with all but was thinking winter for the wren?

 

Natalie

Learning Birder

• Jan 3, 2009

• #4

I think the bill on the wren is too long and thick for it to be a Winter Wren. It looks like a House Wren to me.

 

Tero

Retired

• Jan 3, 2009

• #5

Curious, the wren.

 

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cavan wood

Well-known member

• Jan 3, 2009

• #6

Yes, the wren is odd. It's much too light with too long of a bill for winter wren, and most notably lacks the barring on the flank. It's also an unusually bold supercillium for house, but not sure what else it could be. Is Bewick's possible? (I'm not familiar with Bewick's)
Scott

 

OK_Scissortail

Oklahoma State Bird

• Jan 3, 2009

• #7

Thanks everyone....Posting more photos of the wren....was found at lake by the Dam.

 

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Natalie

Learning Birder

• Jan 3, 2009

• #8

Bewick's has a much longer and more defined supercillium than the wren in the photo (at least the ones around here do). The Sibley guide shows less barring on juvenile House Wren, but it also says those can be seen only from May to August. Perhaps it's a late-bloomer?

(That might explain why it's still in Oklahoma, anyway.)

 

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cavan wood

Well-known member

• Jan 3, 2009

• #9

Streaks on the breast, buffy at the end of the tail. Again it's not a bird I'm familiar with but I'm thinking rock wren. Also the supercillium and leg colour fits better.

Scott

 

OK_Scissortail

Oklahoma State Bird

• Jan 3, 2009

• #10

I looked up Winter wren and the Bewicks's and so far I have come up with that the Bewick's wren does stay here year round. The Winter wren just winter's here and the House wren is supposed to be further south now but doesn't mean it isn't one. I know not much info and pretty much what you all already said, just backing it up.

 

atricapillus

Well-known member

• Jan 3, 2009

• #11

cavan wood said:

Streaks on the breast, buffy at the end of the tail. Again it's not a bird I'm familiar with but I'm thinking rock wren. Also the supercillium and leg colour fits better.

Scott

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The wren is a rock wren. Where in Oklahoma was this picture taken?
CHEERS, JOE G

 

OK_Scissortail

Oklahoma State Bird

• Jan 3, 2009

• #12

The photo was taken at Fort Gibson lake at the Dam, North of Fort Gibson, OK. (NE OK area) It's a little out of it's area but maybe with the drought the panhandle had it moved to greener land in the east.

Thank you

 

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atricapillus

Well-known member

• Jan 3, 2009

• #13

OK_Scissortail said:

The photo was taken at Fort Gibson lake at the Dam, North of Fort Gibson, OK. (NE OK area)

Thank you

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Not often rock wrens make it that far east in Oklahoma, but the dam at Fort Gibson has been one of the localities. Also Skiatook, near Tulsa.
CHEERS, JOE G

 

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ceasar

Well-known member

• Jan 3, 2009

• #14

Yes it looks like a Rock Wren. Has a streaked breast and there seems to be a terminal band on it's tail. Peterson says it it indigenous year round in Western Oklahoma.
Bob

 

OK_Scissortail

Oklahoma State Bird

• Jan 3, 2009

• #15

Thanks for the info jotting it down on my list. Whew, glad I saw it today with it not being out this way much.