Birding is *NOT* a Crime!!!: Can you identify this bird?

Sunday, March 05, 2006

Can you identify this bird?

Here is an interesting photo of a bird that has been seen in Florida: What do you think it is?

5 comments:

John B. said...: Looks like some kind of thrasher, but the bill is a bit too long for a brown thrasher, and it's too far east for the others. Could it be a vagrant from the Caribbean?; Sunday, March 05, 2006 5:19:00 PM
Birding is NOT a crime!!!! said...: Well, the bird looks like a standard Brown Thrasher, except for (obviously) the bill. Several people (including Bill Pranty) have expressed the opinion that this bird is simply a Brown Thrasher with a "deformed" bill, which makes sense, although the bill length sure is an "odd" deformity. (Not that deformities are ever "normal"...they wouldn't be deformities if they were!!!)

I wonder if there is any evidence of hybridization in thrashers...; Sunday, March 05, 2006 5:51:00 PM
Anonymous said...: Thrasher with an unusually long bill is my guess, too. Very strange.; Sunday, March 05, 2006 10:05:00 PM
Anonymous said...: I needed some help with this one, so I checked with Mr. Guppy. He says it is definitely an Ivory Billed Woodpecker. He also got a photograph of it.; Wednesday, March 08, 2006 8:55:00 AM
Anonymous said...: I needed some help with this one, so I checked with Mr. Guppy. He says it is definitely an Ivory Billed Woodpecker. He also got a photograph of it.; Wednesday, March 08, 2006 9:31:00 AM

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