Need help identifying this bird
Jul 6, 2018 12:40:40 #
Sergo
Loc: Washington State
Found this guy at my backyard feeder this morning. My wife and I think he may be in the Quail Family but we have never seen anything like it in this area before. Thanks for your help.
Jul 6, 2018 12:46:22 #
Sergo wrote:
Found this guy at my backyard feeder this morning. My wife and I think he may be in the Quail Family but we have never seen anything like it in this area before. Thanks for your help.
So where is your area? Many species are regional.
Jul 6, 2018 12:47:38 #
Jul 6, 2018 12:51:59 #
Sergo
Loc: Washington State
Sorry, that would have been helpful. We're in the Pacific Northwest, just north of Seattle.
The bird is roughly the same size as a pigeon.
Thanks again
The bird is roughly the same size as a pigeon.
Thanks again
Jul 6, 2018 12:58:23 #
Jul 6, 2018 13:02:43 #
Sergo
Loc: Washington State
Sure looks like it to me as well. Thank you for your help.
kenievans wrote:
Northern Bobwhite according to Merlin
Jul 6, 2018 13:47:49 #
Bobwhite. I just had one show up in my backyard after a several year absence. vz
Jul 6, 2018 14:13:44 #
Sergo wrote:
Found this guy at my backyard feeder this morning. My wife and I think he may be in the Quail Family but we have never seen anything like it in this area before. Thanks for your help.
A quail of some kind , but the sizes of a pigon, the quail I see are a little bigger , but it's a quail
Jul 6, 2018 15:48:33 #
Bob White range does not make it to Pacific Northwest. But there are several birds that look similar.
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Bobwhite/id
But according to Nat Geo there are two very small areas where they were introduced and went wild in Eastern Oregon and the Puget Sound area. With the way humans move critters around for their own amusement and pleasure you might even see emus or similar. There is a dairy farm near me whose owner kept a small flock of emus in one of his pastures. People driving by and had never seen them before were a road hazard. After all the Eurasian Collared Dove which is now one of our most common birds of the dove/pigeon family started in some guy's garden in the Bahamas back in the 70's and now are over more than half of No America from Central America to SW Canada.
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Bobwhite/id
But according to Nat Geo there are two very small areas where they were introduced and went wild in Eastern Oregon and the Puget Sound area. With the way humans move critters around for their own amusement and pleasure you might even see emus or similar. There is a dairy farm near me whose owner kept a small flock of emus in one of his pastures. People driving by and had never seen them before were a road hazard. After all the Eurasian Collared Dove which is now one of our most common birds of the dove/pigeon family started in some guy's garden in the Bahamas back in the 70's and now are over more than half of No America from Central America to SW Canada.
Jul 6, 2018 18:52:58 #
Definitely NOT a Bobwhite. It's a Mearns or Montezuma Quail from the southern parts of the Southwest. Arizona and New Mexico. Maybe an escapee, shouldn't be in Mass. Or the Pacific Northwest.
Jul 7, 2018 08:29:58 #
Could it be a ptarmigan - some of them have ranges down to that area...
Jul 7, 2018 11:30:05 #
Jul 7, 2018 11:46:41 #
wapiti wrote:
I'll eat my hat if that's not a Bobwhite. Kind of pale, though.
Break out the salt and pepper wapiti. Guaranteed, not a bobwhite. It is a Mearns quail. Or maybe not.
Jul 7, 2018 11:51:26 #
Jul 7, 2018 11:59:55 #
Sergo wrote:
Found this guy at my backyard feeder this morning. My wife and I think he may be in the Quail Family but we have never seen anything like it in this area before. Thanks for your help.
Montezuma Quail
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