Jᴀᴄᴜʀᴜᴛᴜ - Tʜᴇ Cᴀsᴛ Oᴜᴛ

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

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




thanks!
Carlos

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

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

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.

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

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!

SandRider wrote:some kind of starling, maybe.

African or European?

TheDukester wrote:

SandRider wrote:some kind of starling, maybe.

African or European?

I saw that one coming yesterday.

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... }

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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.

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.

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 ....

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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.

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