What Bird Is That Forum

Thought this might be a fun game for us to play. Whoever guesses the species depicted correctly posts the next photo, or defers to another player. Please only guess again after two others have guessed, feedback by poster has been given, or once a day has gone by. Whoever has posted a photo should ...

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woot!

Great Cormorant is correct. Nice shots!

Canada is correct. Cacklers have much smaller, stubbier bills.

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Greater Scaup is my impression. Rounded head shape, tall eye placement, large pale ear patch…

I got 13 out of 20
2 wrong due to multiple species, 1 wrong because I forgot to check the location the photo was taken (was from Ecuador), 2 because I was unfamiliar with the subspecies and got confused, and 2 I just got wrong.

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Chased a White-winged Scoter that I needed for the year, and found a bonus Long-tailed Duck! 7 Red-throated Loons and a Common Merganser were nice too. https://ebird.org/checklist/S299213110


What's the status of Red-throated Loon in Tennessee? I know in California they are quite rare away ...

Chased a White-winged Scoter that I needed for the year, and found a bonus Long-tailed Duck! 7 Red-throated Loons and a Common Merganser were nice too. https://ebird.org/checklist/S299213110

With those views, I’m confident with Greater now

Head shape looks good superficially, though I’d still want to watch the bird move around in the field. Don’t know how it’s been in the plains, but we’ve had huge influx of GRSC in Tennessee the past week

Outer birds are both Greater, middle bird is tough. Nail looks solid for Greater, though on molting birds I don’t entirely trust it, but I can’t judge head shape and eye placement in that photo

The female/immature Scaups you posted look good for Greater. A few males and a female in the first photos posted, last photo is a Lesser to me.

It being an immature complicated things a little bit, but if I saw that bird I’d immediately by thinking abieticola. Heavy belly streaking, as well as heavily marked underwings. I’d submit it as a northern and see what the reviewer thinks, but I feel good about that bird as a northern.

Pretty sure it's a Herring


Can Iceland (Thayer's) be discounted?


Here’s my take, and I could be totally off base.
The bird is in its second cycle (replaced mantle feathers while retaining immature body feathers), which explains the lack of adult primaries, and in comparing Thayer’s and Am ...

Tennessee is currently being invaded by northerners! The relentless back-to-back arctic blasts, coupled with a devastating ice storm has pushed hundred of Common Mergansers across the region, as well as dozens of American Tree Sparrows, Tundra Swans, and massive influx of Canvasback and Greater ...

So, what’s the story with the old forum and this new one? If it’s explained somewhere else on here somebody please link it 🙏

https://www.birdforum.net/threads/new-nest-for-whatbird-forums-whatbird-com-members.477122/


Thanks! And a huge thank you for setting this up, I'm so glad to be back ...

WE’RE SO BACK Y’ALL!!!

So, what’s the story with the old forum and this new one? If it’s explained somewhere else on here somebody please link it