Bird ID Query - Point Reyes, California (1 Viewer)

[K B Srinivas]

Hello,
I was going through my archives and I found some of the below images. Just wanted to confirm the Bird ID of these.


1. Is this a Common Loon?


2. Is this Red-throated Loon?


3. Is this a Black Scoter?



4. Is this a Common Murre?



5. Is this a Pelagic Cormorant?



6. Is this a Lesser Scaup?



Thanks,
Srinivas.

 

[nartreb]

#1 I think nonbreeding/immature pacific loon. Very clean black/white border on neck (common should have a "broken white collar"), reddish eye, prominent half-an-eyering (lower half), possibly just visible "chinstrap".

#2 I'm leaning common since the bill doesn't look upturned to me.

#3 I'm thinking immature male surf scoter - bill pattern with that dark spot on the side

#4 yes, common murre

#5 yes, I think the foreground bird is too shiny to be anything but pelagic cormorant. Background bird looks to be the same size, so presumably pelagic as well.

#6 Not going to guess which scaup.

 

[connorco]

Hello, I live 20 minutes away from point Reyes. I agree with Narteb with the post above. Any more detailed location about the scaup. They overlap in range over a good section of the county, but there's a few areas where one species is a lot more dominant than the other. It's always hard to call them on image, especially with a bird that isn't too obviously one species such as this one.

 

[THE_FERN]

Stick my neck out, suggest scaup is lesser based on head peaks towards front, and maybe a hint of a tuft at back, and coarse barring on back.

 

[K B Srinivas]

#1 I think nonbreeding/immature pacific loon. Very clean black/white border on neck (common should have a "broken white collar"), reddish eye, prominent half-an-eyering (lower half), possibly just visible "chinstrap".

#2 I'm leaning common since the bill doesn't look upturned to me.

#3 I'm thinking immature male surf scoter - bill pattern with that dark spot on the side

#4 yes, common murre

#5 yes, I think the foreground bird is too shiny to be anything but pelagic cormorant. Background bird looks to be the same size, so presumably pelagic as well.

#6 Not going to guess which scaup.

Thank you for helping with the identification of the birds.

Thanks,
Srinivas.

 

[Evan Atkinson]

#1 is likely a pacific loon. Would suggest Lesser for the scaup as suggested above, it does look like theres the very small hint of a tuft. Unsure on the scoter, but the murre is correct. That's as far as I'm willing to venture. Need to sharpen up with American species more.

 

[THE_FERN]

#1 I think nonbreeding/immature pacific loon. Very clean black/white border on neck (common should have a "broken white collar"), reddish eye, prominent half-an-eyering (lower half), possibly just visible "chinstrap".

#2 I'm leaning common since the bill doesn't look upturned to me.

#3 I'm thinking immature male surf scoter - bill pattern with that dark spot on the side

#4 yes, common murre

#5 yes, I think the foreground bird is too shiny to be anything but pelagic cormorant. Background bird looks to be the same size, so presumably pelagic as well.

#6 Not going to guess which scaup.

Should have said "agree with all these". Scoter is surf scoter

 

[pianoman]

(2) looks quite petite and small-billed, however with those neck markings I can't see how it could be anything but Common Loon