Help identifying a bird

cmsahe · Post by **cmsahe** » 23 Dec 2008 00:51

Hi guys!, I'd highly appreciate if you helped me to identify this bird:

http://i327.photobucket.com/albums/k452 ... hencho.jpg

thanks!
Carlos

SandRider · Post by **SandRider** » 23 Dec 2008 01:04

some kind of starling, maybe. where from ? how big ?

Mandy · Post by **Mandy** » 23 Dec 2008 15:27

I think it is a curve billed thrasher. I found this site, scroll down a little, and there is a picture of a very similar looking bird http://delta.cs.cinvestav.mx/~debrup/mexicoBirds.htm

cmsahe · Post by **cmsahe** » 23 Dec 2008 22:56

SandRider wrote:some kind of starling, maybe. where from ? how big ?

A mexican bird, some 12in long and very agressive, it reminds me of the Velociraptors in Jurassic Park, I love it, it comes daily to my house to feed from the birdseed I scatter. All the doves and sparrows fear it.

cmsahe · Post by **cmsahe** » 23 Dec 2008 23:00

Mandy wrote:I think it is a curve billed thrasher. I found this site, scroll down a little, and there is a picture of a very similar looking bird http://delta.cs.cinvestav.mx/~debrup/mexicoBirds.htm

"Curve-Billed Thrasher (Cuitlacoche comun)"

Yes! that's the bird! Thanks a lot Mandy, I really appreciate your help. Happens that my childhood love towards Dinosaurs has transformed into a love for their descendants the birds

Post by **Freakzilla** » 24 Dec 2008 12:06

There are a lot of Brown Thrashers around here, they are our state bird and VERY agressive. It's also the name of our hockey team but I don't like to talk about them. I've seen the brown thrasher attack much larger birds like ravens, hawks and falcons, even domestic cats!

TheDukester · Post by **TheDukester** » 24 Dec 2008 12:26

SandRider wrote:some kind of starling, maybe.

African or European?

Post by **Freakzilla** » 24 Dec 2008 12:32

TheDukester wrote:
SandRider wrote:some kind of starling, maybe.
African or European?

I saw that one coming yesterday.

SandRider · Post by **SandRider** » 24 Dec 2008 12:32

I was just going by the long curved bill. Mandy got to the answer
before I got around to looking.

{ok, Freak, posting over me at the same time, I don't get it...

}

Pansyass · Post by **Pansyass** » 24 Dec 2008 12:44

My favorites:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... -Kuba1.JPG

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... 10_008.jpg

Edited for content.

Spicelon · Post by **Spicelon** » 24 Dec 2008 13:09

Freakzilla wrote:
TheDukester wrote:
SandRider wrote:some kind of starling, maybe.
African or European?
I saw that one coming yesterday.

Except that the oblique reference regards a swallow, not a starling. Still funny, though.

Mandy · Post by **Mandy** » 24 Dec 2008 14:48

cmsahe wrote:
Mandy wrote:I think it is a curve billed thrasher. I found this site, scroll down a little, and there is a picture of a very similar looking bird http://delta.cs.cinvestav.mx/~debrup/mexicoBirds.htm
"Curve-Billed Thrasher (Cuitlacoche comun)"

Yes! that's the bird! Thanks a lot Mandy, I really appreciate your help. Happens that my childhood love towards Dinosaurs has transformed into a love for their descendants the birds

You're welcome! I love to bird watch, too.

SandRider · Post by **SandRider** » 24 Dec 2008 15:38

Spicelon wrote:
Freakzilla wrote:
TheDukester wrote:
SandRider wrote:some kind of starling, maybe.
African or European?
I saw that one coming yesterday.
Except that the oblique reference regards a swallow, not a starling. Still funny, though.

I STILL don't get it ....

Post by **Freakzilla** » 24 Dec 2008 15:44

SandRider wrote:
Spicelon wrote:
Freakzilla wrote:
TheDukester wrote:
SandRider wrote:some kind of starling, maybe.
African or European?
I saw that one coming yesterday.
Except that the oblique reference regards a swallow, not a starling. Still funny, though.
I STILL don't get it ....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2R3FvS4xr4

SandRider · Post by **SandRider** » 24 Dec 2008 15:51

sure. what the hell, I got 20 minutes to let a youtube load ....

gonna go let the dogs chase the doves that just covered the yard ...

GamePlayer · Post by **GamePlayer** » 24 Dec 2008 15:54

I knew Holy Grail was going to find it's way into this topic sooner or later

Spicelon · Post by **Spicelon** » 25 Dec 2008 00:32

"If it grips it by the husk, then yeah...."

TheDukester · Post by **TheDukester** » 26 Dec 2008 13:45

Baraka Bryan wrote:it's not a question of where he grips it...

That's in my top three lines from the whole movie.

cmsahe · Post by **cmsahe** » 29 Dec 2008 15:40

Freakzilla wrote:There are a lot of Brown Thrashers around here, they are our state bird and VERY agressive. It's also the name of our hockey team but I don't like to talk about them. I've seen the brown thrasher attack much larger birds like ravens, hawks and falcons, even domestic cats!

There ara a pair of mockingbirds in my street that attack the cats, it's a show, I have been expecting to tape them.

SandRider · Post by **SandRider** » 29 Dec 2008 16:50

one of my barncats has had an on-going war with the
same mockingbird for about three years now ....

J A C U R U T U

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