ML354782611
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- Age
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- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
*Rare. Initial impression was SBDO, but that's also the species I'm most familiar with and was wondering if I was just transferring that familiarity into confirmation bias. Bird was silent and somewhat distant, tucked in with a mixed flock of yellowlegs (not far from where the continuing Spoonbills were hanging out). Given this was freshwater and both species are pretty unusual at this location and time of year, ran pics by fellow reviewers up in Boston who thought it looked SBDO, and one of them kindly shared pictures with Michael O'Brien, who agreed: "It’s a Short-bill, for sure. The orange tone on the breast fades to white on the belly. The dark markings along the sides are rather evenly distributed, not concentrated at the breast sides. The throat is clear orange with no spots. A faded Long-bill would show evenly pale orange underparts with light to no mid-flank barring abutting at least some barring on breast sides, and usually some speckling on the throat (though those spots can be gone by now)." Pics/video to add. Hopefully it has hung around if anyone wants to chase it. Only other eBird record for Lake Jackson is from the 1970s. Curious if there was a similar drainage event at that time?
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- Microphone
- Accessories
- Original file size
- 47.62 MB