Calling all bird watchers
Today I noticed a large bird in a tree in my back yard and I have never seen this type of bird in my area. The bird is brown, has a beak about 3 inches long, yellow legs I estimate to be about 4 – 5 inches long, and a body that is around 12 inches long. When standing on the limb in the tree he/ she is about 1 1/2 feet tall. This bird is huge compared to all other bird life in the area. I snapped some photos using a telephoto lens since the bird was very high in the trees so here is “Big Bird”:
Does anybody know what kind of bird this is?
-jk
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Looks like it could be an immature Night Heron.
http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/Infocenter/i2020id.html
Yes. In the last picture we can see the long legs through the leaves.
It’s a Chimichanga Lurking bird.
It’s a dodo.
Looks like a young Heron,
Watch out if you have a pond/fish/frogs the parents will be looking to feed.
Looks like the Night Heron is the one. Good sleuthing everyone! Alas, the bird is gone today.
I dunno… there’s something fishy about that bird…
Here is the feedback from a biology professor who specializes in birds.
It’s a Black-crowned Night Heron. The name comes from the fact that it is a night-feeding species, foraging mostly on frogs, turtles, fish and other pond or wetland species. Compared to other herons it has a really short neck, and the shortened look is compounded by it sitting hunched down in trees.
If he sees similar sized birds in the same area that are brownish streaked, those are the juveniles. The adults can look pretty weird because of the red eye.
Nice picture. i want to get em thanks
Dion
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It’s just a female night heron. Yellow-crowned, to be exact.
Any body who tells you otherwise is wrong. ^^ It MIGHT be a young black-crowned, or female, but I personally handled a young female and saw females of the yellow-crowned variety just a handful of days ago and know for a fact this is a night heron.
The eye’s brown, by the by; not “red.” Although it is a red-brown color. ^^