tags: Upland Sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery bird] Upland Sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda, photographed at Quintana, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours]
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 8 April 2009 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with tsn-pz camera eyepiece 1/800s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
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A very familiar bird in these parts, that's the roadrunner. The head shape and beak are a dead give-away. As would be the locomotion, were this not a still photo.
My guess is Upland Sandpiper - Yellow/black bill, Eye-ring, streaked head/nape, slightly decurved at tip.
I vote for a sandpiper--long slender yellow/black bill,a biggish eye on a smallish head (for body size) on a long wiry neck, yellow leg (I think that's a leg I'm looking at), shortish tale, and the mottled/buff coloring. I second the Upland Sandpiper.
This is a Spruce Grouse. Specifically a Spruce Grouse from the Snoqualmie Pass east of Seattle. You can tell by the feathers. Most Spruce Grouses (or Grease) have a distinctive red comb on top of their heads but this one has obviously been mutilated by the Snoqualmie Pass people who do that sort of thing to grouses and other slow moving birds for kicks.
Am I right? Am I right?
not a roadrunner. Upland sandpiper by legs, bill.