[Tweeters] What is this bird?
Alan Roedell
alanroedell at gmail.com
Wed Aug 2 14:21:04 PDT 2023
Thanks for your clarification. This is what keeps birding interesting into
old age.
alanroedell at gmail.com
On Wed, Aug 2, 2023, 1:05 PM <jimbetz at jimbetz.com> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> OK - lesson learned. When trying to ID a bird - don't use just one
> reference
> source.
>
> Both all-about-birds and Merlin are essentially the same (exactly?) in
> terms
> of what they include/don't include ... and, for this Pigeon Guillemot I
> also
> made the mistake of using photos as my primary ID method. Both of those
> use the same set of photos - none of which show a Pigeon Guillemot in any
> color other than black or very dark brown. So, although I'd already
> looked at the Pigeon Guillemot, I'd said to myself "the markings are the
> same, but the color is wrong" when that was wrong.
> When I did a simple Google search for images of Pigeon Guillemots I
> found several that were essentially identical to the picture I took and
> the bird that I saw and took the picture of was easily ID'd from those
> photos. I suspect that both Merlin and all-about-birds are the same
> because I think they are both from Cornell.
>
> ===> Yes, it is/was a Pigeon Guillemot. Thanks!
>
> ****
>
> As to the cormorant - my ID from the photo was fine, but I may not have
> done as good a job for the birds on the ferry pilings as opposed to
> the old cannery pilings. IOW - don't always think that some cormorants
> (insert bird of your interest) in one place are the same as the ones
> only a few yards away.
> I have looked at the pics I took of the 'other' cormorants and it is
> inconclusive whether or not there were some Pelagics in the ones on
> the pilings near the ferry (a bundle called a "bollard"). There are
> some 'quite possible' pelagics in those birds.
>
> - thanks to all ... Jimse
>
> P.S. I'm a bit disappointed to discover that Cornell isn't including
> images as obviously important as these Pigeon Guillemot phases.
>
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