You certainly know your birds. I am waiting for your bird book to be published. These beauties would look like on glossy paper. I love your simple, yet elegant shell banner.
Hi Patty, Don't give me too much credit! I have a handy "Birds of South Carolina" folding pocket card. As for the "winter plumage" - if the shape, size, bill and leg colour look right but the plumage looks a bit wonky I go to Google Images and look at photos of the bird, you will often find descriptions like "first winter plumage", "non-breeding plumage" etc. Another excellent site is 10000birds.com. Mike and Corey are great at responding to "What the heck is this?" queries. In fact, a quick email with photo to Mike helped me identify the birds in my Wind Surfing post.
I like that Royal Tern. He/she is one funky looking dude. Congrats on expanding your list.
ReplyDeleteI guess that attitude of the Royal Tern is why he has 'Royal' in his name! :-)
ReplyDeleteNeither of them look like birds that would take challenges lightly. Glorious, but more than a little aggressive looking.
ReplyDeleteYou certainly know your birds. I am waiting for your bird book to be published. These beauties would look like on glossy paper.
ReplyDeleteI love your simple, yet elegant shell banner.
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Hi Patty, Don't give me too much credit! I have a handy "Birds of South Carolina" folding pocket card. As for the "winter plumage" - if the shape, size, bill and leg colour look right but the plumage looks a bit wonky I go to Google Images and look at photos of the bird, you will often find descriptions like "first winter plumage", "non-breeding plumage" etc. Another excellent site is 10000birds.com. Mike and Corey are great at responding to "What the heck is this?" queries. In fact, a quick email with photo to Mike helped me identify the birds in my Wind Surfing post.
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I like the Forster's Tern. South Carolina is wonderful place and you can do many things there.
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