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Topic Categories: Birding • Mystery Birds • Ornithology • Photography
Posted on: February 20, 2009 9:59 AM, by "GrrlScientist"
tags: Curve-billed Thrasher, Toxostoma curvirostre, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery bird] Curve-billed Thrasher, Toxostoma curvirostre, photographed in Starr County Park, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you tomorrow]
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 5 April 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/1000s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
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Since no one's on it yet.... Clearly a thrasher, by the big curved beak. Not a Brown Thrasher (my first thought, from the name; I've never seen one), but probably a Curve-billed Thrasher, by the roundish spots on the breast and the overall coloring.
Posted by: Hilary | February 20, 2009 11:02 AM
Agree on Curve-billed Thrasher. It's the spittin' image of Sibley's "adult Texas" illustration. I note the "round spots" on the breast, the eye that is scarier-looking than Bendire's "paler yellow iris on average", and the failure to display Bendire's "shorter, straighter bill, usually pale a base."
Posted by: John Callender | February 20, 2009 11:33 AM
I also agree on Curve-billed Thrasher, and would say it's of the 'oberholseri' race due to the range, and the whitish wing-bar.
Posted by: Reid Barclay | February 20, 2009 12:07 PM
Si señor.. Curved-billed Thrasher
Posted by: José Cordero | February 20, 2009 3:40 PM