Black passerine with sharp beak, Lake Titicaca, Peru, August 2006 (1 Viewer)

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in vitrio

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• Dec 7, 2019

• #1

Looking through old pics I saw this duo...no sign of any yellow so I doubt they are yellow-winged blackbirds, although they are not far off the shape...

 

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njlarsen

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• Dec 7, 2019

• #2

The birds are really small in the view I am getting, but shiny cowbird seems a good guess?

Niels

 

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in vitrio

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• Dec 7, 2019

• #3

Yes, I didn't have a good camera at the time. Closer-up here.

But that looks a good shout, the one on the left looks less glossy than the one on the right, so they may be a pair.

 

Larry Sweetland

Formerly 'Larry Wheatland'

• Dec 7, 2019

• #4

Could be Yellow-winged Blackbird. They're abundant at Lake Titicaca, and the yellow isn't always visible.

 

pbjosh

missing the neotropics

• Dec 8, 2019

• #5

They give me more of a Shiny Cowbird feeling than Yellow-winged Blackbird. YW Blackbird is more slender, longer billed, perhaps longer tailed, and the female should have more of a pale superciliary... hard to be certain from that photo but I would lean Shiny Cowbird.

 

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in vitrio

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• Dec 9, 2019

• #6

I definitely saw no trace of yellow on them. But I didn't know to look for it!

 

Larry Sweetland

Formerly 'Larry Wheatland'

• Dec 10, 2019

• #7

in vitrio said:

I definitely saw no trace of yellow on them. But I didn't know to look for it!

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You might only see it when they fly. I remember YWBB being very common around the floating Reed island community off Puno