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RE: what is this bird?
- To: Jane Peppler <jpeppler@duke.edu>, carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: RE: what is this bird?
- From: "Gibeau, Stu" <Stu.Gibeau@afccc.af.mil>
- Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 10:02:08 -0400
- Delivered-to: pardo@metalab.unc.edu
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
I'd look at female Rose Breasted Grosbeak's.
Stu Gibeau
Black MTN, NC
-----Original Message-----
From: Jane Peppler [mailto:jpeppler@duke.edu]
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 9:03 AM
To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
Subject: what is this bird?
Hi,
New member here, I joined to find out what the odd bird is I've seen at
my black sunflower seed feeder in the last week or two. It looks like a
sparrow to me but I am ignorant. It is about the size of the cardinal, a
stocky bird with a kind of thick neck, a beak kind of like a cardinal
and large eyes. It is a brownish-red color, its wings are solid with two
cream-colored stripes, its head is mostly the same brown with a cream
stripe above and below the eye (not through it). There may also be a
cream stripe along the top of the head. It has a little spot of cream a
little bit back from the eye (towards the back of the head). It has
thinnish stripes of the same brown on its cream breast.
I looked in my bird books and didn't see one like it. I thought maybe,
fox sparrow, but the pictures of the fox sparrow I found on the web look
too "round" for this bird. Maybe a vesper sparrow?
I'll try to get a picture if this does not suffice.
Thanks,
Jane Peppler