Oh, hai, Help identify bird. K, tanks

[warrior1]

[Sanity Claws]

1. Oriole

They are less easy to identify outside of a baseball park, their natural environment.

[warrior1]

2. The beak is too big

[mike_c]

3. there are numerous oriole species-- ask Xemasab....

My money's on oriole too. It will help if you tell us where the pic was taken since different species have different geographic distributions.

[XemaSab]

12. Here's why it's not an oriole:

Orioles have pointy little meadowlark/blackbird beaks.

The bird in the OP has clearly got a big, seed-eating beak.

[mike_c]

13. that's why you're the ornithologist and I'm not, LOL....

One of my grad students took me on a marsh bird walk a year or so ago. She hasn't repeated the experience. I think she knows my ornithology fu is very weak.

[XemaSab]

14. .

;)

[BarenakedLady]

4. Black-headed grosbeak.

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Black-headed_Grosbeak.html

[warrior1]

5. We have a winner

Tanks.

[BarenakedLady]

8. Welcome

I am bird nerd, hear me chirp

[Jamastiene]

9. I thought grosbeak first thing, but couldn't narrow it down.

Thanks. I know I didn't originally ask, but still. I'm one of those people who cannot quit looking.

[SallyMander]

6. I think it's a grosbeak?

Not sure which kind, though...

:hi:


Edit - BNL got it while i was posting :toast:

[jpak]

7. Black-headed grosbeak

n/t

[DarkTirade]

10. Dinner.

Sorry, I think I was channeling a past life there... pretty sure I used to be a cat in a past life. :P

[XemaSab]

11. Black-headed Grosbeak

:thumbsup:

[Rhiannon12866]

15. Are you in the Dakotas? They have Black-headed Grosbeaks...

[warrior1]

17. Sacramento, California

[Rhiannon12866]

19. Well, they may go to California in the winter. I'd sure like to. :D

Pretty birds...:-)

[musette_sf]

16. FUD

WANT

[Inchworm]

18. You guys rock!

First thing I thought of when I saw this pic was a Towhee. I have them galore here all summer. I just assumed the color oddities were molting or something. I got back in the book and looked at the wee differences and realized a few that have been in yard were actually Rose-Breasted Grosbeaks.

I keep tryin to snap a picture but the dogs are scaring them off.

I get to add them to my life list now :)

:woohoo:

:yourock: