New billboard goes up in Burns as standoff at Malheur continues

[tencats]

Workers putting up new billboard in Burns as standoff at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge continues #LiveOnK2

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https://twitter.com/hashtag/LiveOnK2?src=hash

Anyone one know the id of the bird there?

[csziggy]

1. Ruby-crowned kinglet?

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ruby-crowned_Kinglet/id

[Herman4747]

3. Agreed. n/t

[tencats]

4. I'm thinking its a Green-tailed Towhee

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Green-tailed_Towhee/id


http://www.utahbirds.org/birdsofutah/BirdsD-K/GreenTailedTowhee3.htm

[csziggy]

5. The habitat is more appropriate for the Green Tailed Towhee!

I don't know Western birds as well as I do Eastern and I didn't think to check habitat. The kinglets I suggested like forests, while the towhee you suggest likes "shrubby habitats of the West, particularly disturbed areas of montane forest and open slopes in the Great Basin, sagebrush steppes, and high desert" - definitely more like the area around Malheur!

[L. Coyote]

2. I wonder who paid for this?

[tencats]

7. Meadow Outdoor Advertising offered to put up two billboards in response to a local groups request

Militia group backs down, billboards go up in support of law enforcement as fifth week of Oregon standoff comes to an end.
February 05, 2016


A group of local people on Facebook was discussing how to voice their support for law enforcement, said Melissa Alfstad, one of the group's members. They decided that a billboard would be a good way to do that.

When one of them called Meadow Outdoor, the company offered to put up two billboards for free, Alfstad said.

One of the billboards reads "Our heroes making Harney County proud" next to a picture of officers in front of the Harney County Sheriff's Office. The other billboard reads "We are Harney County We have our own voice."

At a cost of about $400 per billboard per month.

http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/02/militia_group_backs_down_billb.html

[L. Coyote]

9. Thanks.

Gotta luv how informed DU is. Synergy at work.

[Glassunion]

6. Phil. The bird's name is Phil.

[pinboy3niner]

8. *snort*

[rainlover]

10. Bird is a green-tailed towhee

The billboard designer told me it's a green-tailed toehee.