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RE: what is this bird?



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