Not sure. Moab, UT, USA (1 Viewer)

Katemail13

Southeastern Utah, USA

• Apr 6, 2018

• #1

Hi, folks.

I keep seeing this guy around my yard. This morning he was bathing in the water from a dripper hose in a flower bed. I thought he was a Townsend's Solitaire, but on closer inspection, he has no white eye ring, and his wings seem wrong. Can anyone identify him? In one picture, you can see the bird better. In the other, you can see his tail shape.

Thanks for any help!

 

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rkj

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• Apr 6, 2018

• #2

Looks like a Northern Mockingbird.

 

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BobbitWorm45

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• Apr 6, 2018

• #3

agree

 

RafaelMatias

Unknown member

• Apr 6, 2018

• #4

Townsend's Solitaire for me, even without the distinctive eye ring. Bill shape and undertail pattern are quite characteristic (perhaps diagnostic), aren't they?

 

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Kratter

Well-known member

• Apr 6, 2018

• #5

Townsend's Solitaire for me as well. Northern Mockingbird has completely white outer tail feathers, is much paler below, has a longer bill, and yellow eyes, and rarely perches upright.

Andy

 

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BobbitWorm45

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• Apr 6, 2018

• #6

Yes agree, looked too hastily before. Duh!

 

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rkj

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• Apr 6, 2018

• #7

You may be right about it being a solitaire rather than a mocker, but I have never seen a Townsend's Solitaire without an eye ring before.

 

njlarsen

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• Apr 7, 2018

• #8

I have not either, but the general impression says it has to be??

Niels

 

Katemail13

Southeastern Utah, USA

• Apr 10, 2018

• #9

Thanks for all the replies! These are the two things I thought it might be, too. The number one thing that said 'not a mocker' to me, is the dark eye. I have also never seen a solitaire without the white eye ring, but he's right for it in every other way. We'll call him a Solitaire.

 

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fugl

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• Apr 10, 2018

• #10

Katemail13 said:

. . . We'll call him a Solitaire.

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“Probable solitaire” would be better. Why pretend to certainty in such cases?