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Please help identify this bird (1 Viewer)
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tommynthompson
tommynthompson
thank you Peter. I actually looked at that online and could not positively say it was. But your expertise and the fact that I identified a male today in close proximity confirms it. Thanks again.
stonechat1
New member
Agree on the ID, though a bit unusual to see them on the top of a conifer and not in marshy area.
BTW, PLEASE state the country where´s the photo from in the headline of your threads. That is not too much work, IMO.
BTW, PLEASE state the country where´s the photo from in the headline of your threads. That is not too much work, IMO.
tommynthompson
tommynthompson
Bird_Bill,
I was actually walking along a road with both cypress and pine stands in close proximity. Thank you.
I was actually walking along a road with both cypress and pine stands in close proximity. Thank you.
stonechat1
New member
:eek!:
Though a handfull birding tours to Canada I never saw Red-winged Blackbirds in conifers, just around marshy areas and breeding also in deciduous trees at the shore area.
Thanks for the info, Bill!
DarkFireFalcon
Well-known member
Whenever I've seen them in conifers, it's been next to a swamp or pond. You'd almost never see them in an upland conifer forest away from water.
Nutcracker
Stop Brexit!
The pine in the photos is one of the N American lowland southern pines, most likely Loblolly Pine Pinus taeda or Slash Pine Pinus elliottii (which are both often found in or near wetlands).
tommynthompson
tommynthompson
This is exactly the lansdscape I observed the blackbird. It was down a road along a power line easement with shrubs and pines on one side like the one in the photograph and cypress on the other side. The male of the species was observed sitting on a branch of tree located within the swamp.
