Index of Identification-related birds
Last Updated: September 20 , 2008
Britain's first Tundra Swan provides a nice comparison with poorly-marked Bewick's Swan - added January 29, 2008 .
Two Ross's-type Geese - one's a hybrid and the other....? - re-added December, 10 2005.
An illustrated discussion section for Greater White-fronted Goose - updated December 03, 2007.
A pair of presumed Richardson's Cackling Geese but one has a strong black throat divide - added Jan 03, 2003.
Re-added this presumed Taverner's Cackling Goose with parvipes-type Canada Geese in Dallas - added Jan 03, 2003.
Some Black Brants from Barrow, Alaska - but one might be a different form... - added January 09, 2008 .
The resurrected page on Green-winged Teal variation - added June 01, 2003.
Another page on Green-winged Teal variation - now with comparison pics of juv. Baikal Teal - updated July 09, 2006 .
A female Common/Green-winged Teal from England that shows some carolinensis features - added January 21, 2008 .
An Aythya from Fort Worth that may have Tufted Duck genes - added Dec, 2000.
A female Goldeneye from England that shows some features associated with Barrow's - added January 21, 2008 .
A Pacific/Arctic Loon (not in Texas!)... but which is it? - re-added Dec 16, 2005.
A flying Common Loon with a dark vent strap - added Oct 28, 2003.
A rather unusual Yellow-billed Loon from Texas... - added March 25, 2006.
A selection of Cory's Shearwaters from
Texas pelagics; are both subspecies shown here? -
added Oct 09, 2004.
A selection of Storm-Petrels from
a Texas pelagic, with ID discussion - added Oct 09, 2004.
A young Brown Booby from the upper Texas coast that has bright orange-yellow feet - added August 21, 2008 .
A cormorant from the UK - it looks
a lot like a DC - but it's not.... -
added Sept 20 2004.
A pelican from Bahrain that I feel is the first country record of Dalmatian Pelican - re-added Dec 16, 2005.
A frigatebird from the Florida Keys that seems unusual - added January 09, 2008 .
A frigatebird from the central Texas coast that seems to have some untypical features - added August 18, 2008 .
This
frigatebird from the upper Texas coast is now thought to be a variant adult female Magnificent Frigatebird - updated September 09, 2008 .
An atypical Great Blue Heron, and discussion of separation from Grey Heron - re-added Dec 11, 2005.
Reactivated my pages on variation in Snowy
Egret, with comments on Little Egret ID -
added Jan 26, 2003.
Two more juvenile small white "egrets"
to ponder - added July 28, 2003.
Another example illustrating variation in Snowy Egret - this one with dark gray lores - from south Texas - updated August 26, 2008 .
An apparent hybrid Plegadis ibis from
Fort Worth - added May 05, 2002.
A probable hybrid
Swainson's Hawk X Rough-legged Hawk from near Fort Worth - updated December
03, 2002 .
Buteos 1: forms of Red-tailed Hawk
- updated January 09, 2008 .
Buteos 1b: Harlan's Hawks -
updated March 17, 2003.
Buteos 2: other Buteos -
updated December 03, 2007 .
Falcons: Merlins -
updated Jan 19, 2003 .
The first fully-documented Pacific Golden-Plover for Texas - updated April 13, 2006.
An unusual Lesser Golden-Plover from Fort
Worth - new pages/comments added Oct
8, 2001 .
A couple of yellowish juv. Am. Golden-Plovers - re-added Dec 16, 2005.
A short-winged Am. Golden-Plover from Texas in early Spring - added Mar 20, 2006.
First of two presumed Am. Golden-Plovers with very long tertials from Texas in early Spring - added April 03, 2006.
Second of two presumed Am. Golden-Plovers with extremely long tertials from Texas in early Spring - added April 03, 2006.
Six more Golden-Plovers from central Texas in mid-April that defy conventional wisdom: this first one and this second one might possibly be first-Spring Pacifics, while the third, fourth, fifth and sixth look like Americans - except for the trear-end structure - added April 14, 2006.
Audio of a Lesser Golden-Plover from Texas, with comparative audio and spectrographs of fulva and dominica - re-added Dec 16, 2005 .
A presumed Semipalmated Plover with
some features of Common Ringed Plover -
added Oct 26, 2003.
A presumed
Semip. Plover with some features of Common Ringed Plover (toes; bill feathering)
- added May, 10 2005.
Two Solitary Sandpipers that seem to show the extreme in size variation - ? - added May 25, 2006.
A juv. Least Sandpiper showing
head features associated with Long-toed Stint -
added Sept 7, 2002.
Another juv. Least Sandpiper showing
head features associated with Long-toed Stint -
added Sept 5, 2003.
Two more juv. Least Sandpipers with some features associated with Long-toed Stint: here's one, and here's the other - re-added December, 10 2005.
Spring Least Sandpipers: one with abnormal head, and one with strong split-supercilium - re-added May, 10 2005.
A presumed Semipalmated Sand. with some 2nd-generation scaps by mid-August - added December, 20 2005.
Two Semipalmated Sands with some Stint-like features - added December, 20 2005.
A very fresh juv. Red-necked Stint with a rather dark head - re-added December, 10 2005.
A worn summer Peep with orange wash on the "shoulders", from Texas - added December, 10 2005.
A tantalizing peep that might have been a stint... - added December 16, 2005.
A peep quiz for all you calidriphiles! - added Sept 02, 2003..
A Snipe Hunting quiz....can you sort out
the delicatas from the gallinagos? -
updated Nov 12, 2001..
Variation in delicata snipe: one
rather like Great Snipe; and one somewhat
like Pintail Snipe - added Sept 25,
2002.
More unusual delicata Snipe
- added Oct 04, 2002.
A snipe with some characteristics
of Common Snipe - added Sept 30, 2003.
A snipe with a striking underwing
- presumed to be a Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
- added March 29, 2004.
More images of the presumed
Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago including comparisons
with G. delicata and G. gallinago - added March 29,
2004.
Comparisons of the underwing
of the presumed Common Snipe Gallinago
gallinago with G. gallinago from Korea - added August
31, 2004..
A snipe
specimen that may be North America's
first Gallinago gallinago
- added Sept 28 2004.
A controversial, less typical Pomarine Jaeger/South Polar Skua
for the Gulf of Mexico - updated Nov 17,
2004.
A comparison of the Nov. 2004 TX "skua" with the Sept. 2005 Tenn. Skua, plus comments - added December 16, 2005.
A selection of subadult-type Pomarine Jaegers
from the Gulf of Mexico - added Nov 17,
2004.
A fresh juvenile Long-tailed Jaeger from the Gulf of Mexico - added September 08, 2008 .
A second calendar-year Long-tailed Jaeger
from the Gulf of Mexico - updated Nov 15,
2004.
A presumed third calendar-year Long-tailed Jaeger, this one in San Antonio, Texas after a storm - added August 17, 2007 .
A juv. Black Tern from Fort Worth with a head
pattern resembling the Old World subspecies - updated May 24, 2006.
A different-looking Common Tern from the upper Texas coast in late Fall - added May 24, 2006.
An adult Arctic Tern from San Antonio, Texas in the late Spring; the bill seems distorted in most of the photos... - added May 14, 2008.
From Texas a series of Sandwich Terns with extensive yellow or orange in the bill... - added September 20, 2008 .
A series of Nighthawks, showing some
interesting structural (wing) variations -
added Aug 16, 2003.
A puzzling Chaetura swift from Texas
- added December 11, 2007.
A Chaetura swift suggesting Vaux's from Texas - updated January 09, 2008 .
The Twilight Zone: a selection of different
Empids from my yard - added Sept 8,
2003.
An interesting Empid from south of
San Antonio - now Id'ed by experts as a Hammond's Flycatcher
- added Oct 19, 2004.
Another interesting Empid (or two)
from south of San Antonio - more Hammond's Flycatchers? - added November 30, 2004.
Yet another Empid
from the same location south of S. A.
- it now seems confirmed to be a Cordilleran
- updated January 05, 2005.
A third apparent
Hammond's Flycatcher from the same location south of S. A. - How many are wintering locally? - added
February 21, 2005.
Thanks to Chris Wood here are
a series of images of Pine Flycatcher from Colima, Mexico
- added December 03, 2004.
Photos of a Piratic Flycatcher in Texas, with notes on separation from Variegated Flycatcher - added May 05 , 2008 .
What I presume to be the first White-crested Elaenia Elaenia albiceps chilensis in the AOU area, with audio - added February 10, 2008 .
A "Solitary Vireo" - is it identifiable
to species? - added
July 28, 2003.
Another "Solitary Vireo"
- is it firmly identifiable to species? -
added Nov 11, 2003.
A possible Cassin's Vireo - from
Fort Worth in 2002 - added Sept 26, 2003.
Some audio clips comparing Cassin's and Blue-Headed from Alberta - added Dec 11, 2005.
A Plumbeous Vireo - from Corpus
Christi in October 2004 - added Oct 31,
2004.
A Cassin's-type
Vireo from Corpus Christi - added Dec
23, 2004.
A Cassin's Vireo from south of San Antonio - added Dec 27, 2005.
A Black-whiskered
Vireo from Sabine Woods - added April 25, 2005.
Another Black-whiskered Vireo from High Island - added April 24, 2006.
From east Houston a Vireo looking somewhat like a Black-whiskered yet singing a mixed song... - added July 31, 2006.
A Yellow-green
Vireo from Sabal Palm, LRGV - added May 16, 2005.
Two Tamaulipas
Crows from Brownsville, LRGV - added May 16, 2005.
A Cave Swallow from Fort Worth - added Sept 14, 2003 .
A dark N. R-wing Swallow near Fort Worth -
added April 07, 2002 .
A candidate Southwestern Cliff Swallow from
near Fort Worth - added October 20,
2002 .
Fall Tree Swallows with "white
sides to rump" - added Sept 19,
2002.
A hirundine showing characters of Ridgway's
Rough-winged Swallow from near Fort Worth -
updated September 03, 2007
.
A possible nominate Barn Swallow near Fort
Worth - added
October 11, 2003 .
A pale-legged American Pipit from Texas - added Feb 02, 2006.
An American Pipit suggestive of japonicus from Texas - added Jan 07, 2008.
A titmouse from my yard in Fort Worth - but which
kind? - added Feb 8, 2003.
Variation within American Robins, some with features recalling Eyebrowed Thrush -
updated Jan 27, 2003.
Variation within Catharus
thrushes including one suggesting Bicknell's Thrush - added May 04, 2005.
Another Catharus thrush
suggesting Bicknell's - added May
08, 2005.
A possible hybrid
parula from Anzalduas County Park, LRGV - updated Jan 04, 2006.
A possible extreme variant Northern Parula from Sea Rim State Park, Upper Texas Coast - added Oct 26, 2007 .
Is this Tropical Parula-type from Austin, Texas in the winter a pure bird or not? - added Dec 31, 2007 .
A hybrid warbler from Panama - added Oct 26, 2007 .
The long-staying Gray-crowned
Yellowthroat (is it a pure bird?) from Sabal Palm, LRGV - added May 16, 2005.
A female/imm. White-winged Junco from West Texas - added December 25, 2007 .
A problem Longspur, with discussion on separating SMLO and CCLO - - added December 16, 2005.
A Redpoll-like aberrant passerine near
Fort Worth - updated Dec 21, 2001.
An actual Common Redpoll from south Texas in late May! - re-added December 16, 2005.
A series of pages about variation in Pine Siskin, with comparison to Eurasian Siskin - re-added December 16, 2005.
A comparison of freshly-molted Red-winged and Tricolored Blackbirds from Los Angeles - added Dec 11, 2005.
An Eastern Meadowlark suggestive of lilliani from near Fort Worth - updated June 24, 2006 .