tags: Common Moorhen, Gallinula chloropus, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery bird] Common Moorhen chick, Gallinula chloropus, photographed at Brazos Bend State Park, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours]
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 9 July 2009 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/500s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
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Family Guy, S07E02 'I Dream of Jesus':
Peter: Brian, can I see that paper for a sec?
(Brian gives Peter the paper. Peter peruses the paper.)
Peter: Huh... that's odd... I thought that would big news.
How mysterious are penguins gonna be? (Note my optimistic tense/mood use!)
Anyway this is a baby slime-legged goosey.
That's a young coot, after the weird bald mad scientist frizzy red haired nestling phase and before the painfully drab, boring first winter juvenile plumage.
It's the brief interval where they aren't ugly cute, but are actually sort of cute cute.
A moorhen of the same age would be darker below.
It's a young Common Moorhen. American Coot bills lose the red and yellow colors as the chicks grow bigger (see a 'growth series' at http://homepage.mac.com/rstacy/coots01.html). A youngster this old/big with that red, yellow, and black pattern on the bill is going to be a Common Moorhen (see http://sierrabirdbum.com/Birds/Nevada/Common_Moorhens_Henderson_6-4-09…).