Saturday, November 14, 2015

Dial 'M' for Mis-Identify


This was on facebook today:

___________ens to Carolina Birders
1 hr
___________ saw this bird at Kill Devil Hills. I thought Black-crowned Night-Heron but the colors aren't right. Help on ID?
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It's true...the colors aren't right.
Life is a never-ending learning process!

4 comments:

  1. Oh My! What do you say when that happens! Yikes! Very truly a novice!

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  2. It's like a BCNH but not. I woefully remember the I-became-a-birder-yesterday days I called a Pygmy Nuthatch a Loggerhead Shrike just because of the dark eye stripe. Ouch.

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  3. On the plus side, the foot really added something.

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