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Mystery Birds:

Mystery Bird: Magnificent Frigatebird, Fregata magnificens

Category: Mystery Birds

This bird is built for speed and agility in the air and is known to fly for long distances away from home. Can you name the species?

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Mystery Bird: Reddish Egret, Egretta rufescens

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This lovely species was nearly exterminated in the US by hunters who killed the birds for their plumes. The population is small and still recovering, albeit very slowly.

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Mystery Bird: Black Kite, Milvus migrans

Category: Mystery Birds

You've seen this African species before, but may not remember, but there are plenty of family members in North America that you are familiar with, so if you cannot identify this species, I would be pleased if you can tell me the names of at least three North American family members

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Mystery Bird: Gray Wren-warbler, Calamonastes simplex, and Lesser Striped Swallow, Hirundo abyssinica

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You've seen one of these two African mystery bird species before, and it closely resembles a North American species as well, so you should be able to ID that bird to genus, at least (I admit that the other one is going to be challenging)

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Mystery Bird: White Tern, Gygis alba

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This wide-ranging and stunningly beautiful mystery bird is famous for a unique and astonishing behavior -- what is this behavior?

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Mystery Bird: Bicolored Blackbird, Agelaius phoeniceus gubernator

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This mystery bird is quite challenging to identify, but for those of you who can ID this species, can you also tell me the subspecies?

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Mystery Bird: Red-throated Loon, Gavia stellata

Category: Mystery Birds

This bird has a character that sets it apart from the others in the same genus and family, and this character has large effects upon the bird's behavior. Can you tell me what this one character is?

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Mystery Bird: Least Bittern, Ixobrychus exilis

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Another lovely mystery bird for you to identify, and a question: Why are these bird's eyes placed in such a strange way on its head?

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Mystery Bird: Swallow-tailed Kite, Elanoides forficatus

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Here's a gorgeous mystery bird for you to identify. I am also interested if you can tell me why is this species' tail shaped in this distinctive way?

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Mystery Bird: Irania, Irania gutturalis

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This lovely African mystery bird has one of the coolest names evah!

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