10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Taking time to give each and every one a good looking over can take away from the time I spend looking for Lazuli Buntings, Black-bellied Whistling Ducks , or other more exciting birds. For me, the key to identifying the difference, comes with the banding on the tail, and when a bit closer, the yellow legs and cere.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2011
O beautiful for whistling ducks! Even in the Brazilian Amazon, I’ve never seen this many whistling ducks together–there were sixty at a manmade lake behind the Brevard Community College near Titusville, Florida. Black-bellied Whistling Ducks. From the tail band, it looks like an immature. What a sight.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 4, 2014
Yet, it is amazing how many identification features are evident in his bird pictures—the fire-red head, streaked back, white wing bars, and white-tipped tertials of the Western Tanager, the white tail band on the Eastern Kingbird, the black-bordered white eyebrow of the Red-eyed Vireo.
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