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12/15/2007 01:49:27 PM · #1 |
I took this photo at San Diego Wild Animal Park, but their website doesn't contain any info about the bird. |
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12/15/2007 01:50:55 PM · #2 |
Originally posted by shankraft:
I took this photo at San Diego Wild Animal Park, but their website doesn't contain any info about the bird. |
its a heron of some kind.. Grey Heron maybe?
Here is one I shot in the wild. (neck is extended in my shot)

Message edited by author 2007-12-15 13:51:59. |
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12/15/2007 01:56:02 PM · #3 |
My wife just found it in one of her Audubon books.
It looks like a Black-crowned Night-Heron. It says mainly nocturnal though, so interesting that you got that in broad daylight. |
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12/15/2007 01:56:45 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by roba: My wife just found it in one of her Audubon books.
It looks like a Black-crowned Night-Heron. It says mainly nocturnal though, so interesting that you got that in broad daylight. |
Believe me, it took weeks. |
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12/15/2007 01:56:58 PM · #5 |
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12/15/2007 01:57:22 PM · #6 |
Thanks to Simms I suggesting a Heron I looked it up and I'm pretty sure it is a Black-crowned Night Heron. Here is a link to show a similar picture.Heron page Halfway down the page.
Damn I'm slow!
Message edited by author 2007-12-15 13:57:44. |
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12/15/2007 02:00:41 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by trevytrev: Thanks to Simms I suggesting a Heron I looked it up and I'm pretty sure it is a Black-crowned Night Heron. Here is a link to show a similar picture.Heron page Halfway down the page.
Damn I'm slow! |
ah, maybe they do have short necks then.. know the grrey can retract his, or fold it up, or something when it isnt hunting...
By the way, nice shot.. |
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12/15/2007 02:07:07 PM · #8 |
Here is a site and a photo of the bird.
//identify.whatbird.com/obj/24/_/Black-crowned_Night-Heron.aspx |
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12/15/2007 02:08:55 PM · #9 |
anyone know what this bird is???
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12/15/2007 02:13:05 PM · #10 |
I did some research through google and found it to be a Large Fingered Yellow Big Bird. They usually inhabit shitty neighborhoods around the New Jersey area. |
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12/15/2007 02:13:47 PM · #11 |
ROFL!
Hey - that bird is flipping you the...bird ? |
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12/15/2007 02:14:14 PM · #12 |
Big bird with his friend Little bird! lol! Great shot! |
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12/15/2007 02:16:34 PM · #13 |
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12/15/2007 02:17:39 PM · #14 |
Completely hi-jacking this thread, when I was a kid, we used to get Sesame Street about 5 years after the US did, however, I used to be absolutely shit-scared of "The Count". Oscar kinda freaked me out as well. |
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12/15/2007 02:32:53 PM · #15 |
Well since it's already hi-jacked and he did get to identify his bird. My mother & father stood in line for 3 hours for my brother to meet the cookie monster in person, which he loved! They get to the front of the line and I guess b/c he is way bigger in person than the muppet on TV he freaks out and runs away crying, scared shitless. 3 hours for nothing!!!lol. He is 34 now and I still give him shit about that story. |
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12/15/2007 02:33:43 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by trevytrev: Well since it's already hi-jacked and he did get to identify his bird. My mother & father stood in line for 3 hours for my brother to meet the cookie monster in person, which he loved! They get to the front of the line and I guess b/c he is way bigger in person than the muppet on TV he freaks out and runs away crying, scared shitless. 3 hours for nothing!!!lol. He is 34 now and I still give him shit about that story. |
lol |
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12/15/2007 02:59:33 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by shankraft:
I took this photo at San Diego Wild Animal Park, but their website doesn't contain any info about the bird. |
That's a Night Heron:
(taken at the Wild Animal Park as well) |
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12/15/2007 03:05:58 PM · #18 |
It's a night heron :-)
(had to chime in, since I actually knew)
R.
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12/15/2007 04:12:21 PM · #19 |
Mine was taken at the Lake Merritt National Wildelife Refuge in downtown Oakland, the first wildlife refuge in North America.
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