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Sunday, January 26, 2014

BIRDS OF CV - CAN YOU IDENTIFY THEM ALL

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Here is an interesting snapshot by Sal, can you identify all three of these CV residents?
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Dave Israel
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9 comments:

  1. Lanny HoweJanuary 26, 2014 at 8:19 PM

    Cormorants and anhingas dry their wings like the bird on the left, but I think the beak on this bird is straight and not hooked, which would mean it is an anhinga, which is the more common around CV.

    The bird on the right is not a white ibis (the birds you see digging several at a time in our lawns), because the beak is not curved, but pointed. It is not a snowy egret, because the beak is yellow and not all black. It might be a cattle egret, a small (young) great white egret, or (if at the end of the beak there is a black tip, which I can't make out from the photo) a juvenile little blue heron.

    I can't figure out what the bird in the middle is. Is there a real birder around who can set us straight on these?

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  2. UCO PresidentJanuary 26, 2014 at 10:03 PM

    Hi Lanny,
    January 26, 2014 at 8:19 PM,

    Could it possibly be the elusive Mozambique Purple?

    Dave Israel

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  3. Lanny HoweJanuary 27, 2014 at 9:53 AM

    No. A little bird (frequent contributor to this blog) told me it is an Egyptian Goose, not native to Florida but introduced by man. The Mozambique Purple will have to remain on hold, I'm afraid.

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  4. UCO PresidentJanuary 27, 2014 at 11:24 AM

    Hi Lanny,
    January 27, 2014 at 9:53 AM,

    Yes, and a handsome Goose indeed:

    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fWdqp3zGi4w/TlLjDSUkjJI/AAAAAAAAGRc/R8n0PBxEN0Q/s400/SAM_0220-1.JPG

    As photographed on campus by EB.

    Dave Israel

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  5. Clarence HJanuary 27, 2014 at 1:18 PM

    I thought we all lived in PARADISE?

    SO, they must ALL be:
    "BIRDS OF PARADISE"

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  6. Lanny HoweJanuary 27, 2014 at 3:03 PM

    I thought for sure you would add a caveat to your comment, Clarence H: "Not paradise until the gate situation is fixed." You are slipping.

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  7. elainebJanuary 27, 2014 at 3:29 PM

    Not quite paradise, that is a malcontent Egyptian goose, I researched its personality "Egyptian Geese are notoriously bad-tempered ... They are quarrelsome and aggressive, very intolerant of other birds, including their own kind. They can even be vicious. The males hiss and the females make a cackling noise."

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  8. Lanny HoweJanuary 27, 2014 at 4:40 PM

    Well, then, they should fit in well in the Village.

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  9. BettieLJanuary 27, 2014 at 5:54 PM

    Simply Fasinating! The Malcontent
    Egyptian Geese, how fitting!
    Do you suppose it will "fly away"
    once the elections are over?

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