Heron & Egret Quiz Answers
Egret/Heron Quiz answers.
How’d you do?

Egret/Heron Quiz answers.
How’d you do?

Ok, here’s a mystery bird for the current shorebird class. (if you’re not in the class feel free to email me if you figure out the answer). I recently emailed a demonstration of how to take a stab at identifying distant shorebirds in bad photographs. Here are some really bad photographs (distant digi-scoped). But if…
Here’s species #129 seen at my place “the dacha”. Any ID discussion needed?
Finally, here are a couple of interesting feeding behaviors by Cattle and Snowy. (Cattle video is pretty dis-focused).
Someone just reported another gull from our “uncommon 7” list. Hoping a B3er will find one this winter!!
B3 give me an ID?
I thought this exchange in the Shorebird class might be of interest to B3. First Lance’s question, then my response. From Lance Felber (2020 Shorebird student) I noticed while looking at Least Sandpiper in a couple of different guides a fairly large discrepancy in lengths listed. So I looked at Least, Semi, and Western in…