Three Mystery Birds

By Corey • September 7, 2007 • 13 comments

Three mystery birds pictures taken over the last couple of months await your eyes below. So click and guess in the comments! No clicking without guessing though, no matter how outrageously off you are…and, a word to the wise, the first two are rather easy (I think) but the last one might take a field guide. And no, you won’t be getting any clues at all so don’t ask!

Mystery Bird 1

Mystery Bird 2

Mystery Bird 3

I actually think these might be a bit too easy so if they are gotten too quickly I’ll make the next quiz harder, maybe like Jochen’s or Patrick’s recent quizzes…

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Corey

Corey is a lifelong upstate New Yorker who recently took the plunge and moved to the city. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list and broke the magical 300 barrier in New York State in 2007 by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative. He lives near Forest Park in Queens with Daisy and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

13 Responses to “Three Mystery Birds”

Jochen Sep 7th, 2007 at 8:10 am

Easy?
These are tough for sure!
Okay, here are my guesses, but they are nothing more:

1. Black-capped Chickadee
2. Greater Yellowlegs (or Lesser, but my impression is Greater)
3. American Coot

Fine, let’s turn to collecting stamps then…
Patrick Sep 7th, 2007 at 8:33 am

1. Black-throated Green Warbler
2. Solitary Sandpiper
3. American Coot

I love quizzes!
Nathan Sep 7th, 2007 at 9:49 am

1. BT Green Warbler
2. Greaterlegs
3. Coot

I fully expect to be wrong, especially on that middle one.
John Sep 7th, 2007 at 1:56 pm

My impression is that the second is a greater yellowlegs. The legs look too yellow for solitary, and the bill looks too long for lesser. I agree with Patrick and Nathan on the other two.
Will Sep 7th, 2007 at 4:56 pm

Easy

I was with you for the first bird, BT Green Warbler

The second is a Lesser Yellowlegs (I’m bucking the trend here)

Third is an American Coot.
Jochen Sep 7th, 2007 at 5:02 pm

Well, but then again, the third one is a bit blurry, black with a white trailing edge to the wing.
IBWO??
Will Sep 7th, 2007 at 11:06 pm

IBWO?

Last I looked, they really don’t have the foot structure to run on water…
Corey Sep 8th, 2007 at 9:21 am

I warned you all that the third bird was harder…not a coot, and definitely not an IBWO. And Will, you were actually present for not just the first shot, but for the third as well.

The first two are, as several of you have said, a Black-throated Green Warbler and a Greater Yellowlegs.
Will Sep 8th, 2007 at 3:47 pm

Wood Duck
Corey Sep 8th, 2007 at 11:29 pm

nope
John Sep 9th, 2007 at 6:30 am

Yellow-crowned Night Heron
Corey Sep 9th, 2007 at 10:08 am

nope. Man, I guess it is too tough. I’ll give it until Monday evening.
Corey Sep 11th, 2007 at 6:31 am

Okay, it actually wasn’t a bird but a remote-controlled plane with feathers glued on it.

Kidding, it’s a Pied-Billed Grebe at Montezuma. I knew when I took the shot it would be a good quiz pic because who ever sees grebes in flight?