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Monday, January 12. 2009

Name that bird

In the interest of improving the bird interest among our readers, a reader took this photo this week of these hardy shorebirds on the CT coast, not yet in their breeding plumage. Can you name it?



 


 

Posted by Bird Dog in Natural History and Conservation at 05:26 | Comments (10) | Trackbacks (0)

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The Semipalmated Plover (Charadrius semipalmatus) ?
#1 bob on 2009-01-12 06:10 (Reply)
Nope.
#2 bd on 2009-01-12 06:19 (Reply)
Ruddy Turnstones (Arenaria interpres).
#3 wolfwalker on 2009-01-12 06:22 (Reply)
Quite so. The male on the right is beginning to show some of the ruddiness.
#4 Bird Dog on 2009-01-12 06:46 (Reply)
Ah, come down from the great north for the winter. A good idea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruddy_Turnstone
#5 bob on 2009-01-12 06:54 (Reply)
Dang! And here I was trying to remember the word for "small and tasty"
#6 Steve on 2009-01-12 18:17 (Reply)
And there was me going to call the one on the right Bob.
#7 Angry Steve (Link) on 2009-01-13 06:38 (Reply)
i was gonna say "Cormorant' or "Ptarmigen" just because they're fun to mispel.
#8 buddy larsen on 2009-01-13 09:22 (Reply)
I'll agree with Wolfwalker, these are certainly Ruddy Turnstones (Arenaria interpres) in transitional (not-quite-but-almost breeding) plumage.

Jamie Irons
#9 Jamie Irons on 2009-01-13 10:21 (Reply)
All of the above are incorrect. That is the official bird of January, the Conneticut Cold Mother F'er. After a week or two in this condition, they migrate to FL, where they are locally known as the Whiny Mother F'er. If they do not migrate back, their plumage becomes a plaid lower with a white belt, and they are call Retired Mother F'er's. You do NOT want to see a Retired Mother F'er in breeding plumage.

The things I do for science......
#10 thenakedemperor on 2009-01-13 21:19 (Reply)

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