dmark@cs.Buffalo.EDU (David Mark) (07/30/89)
Some of my favorite posting in the past have been: "I just saw a black bird with a yellow head-- what could it have been??" Anybody out there notice a bird this weekend that was unfamiliar? How about describing it, and we'll identify it (or at least, try)! Please tell us where you saw it, and the habitat too, if possible. David Mark dmark@cs.buffalo.edu
moe@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (patrick.j.kelley) (08/01/89)
>Anybody out there notice a bird this weekend that was unfamiliar? >How about describing it, and we'll identify it (or at least, try)! >Please tell us where you saw it, and the habitat too, if possible. > >David Mark >dmark@cs.buffalo.edu I saw a pair of birds three weeks ago which I have never seen before. They were the size of a robin and the markings were similar. The one had dark wings and body with a red belly, brighter than the robins. Its mate had the same pattern but with a yellow belly. I first thought the one was a robin until the other with the yellow belly was sticking real close. I was working outside under what I believe to be a Washington Hawthorne when they landed on the tree and without paying any attention to me began to eat the red berries off the tree. The area was a wooded mountainside near the Pocono Mts.,Pa. Pat att!alc!alux2!pjk
edm@vrdxhq.verdix.com (Ed Matthews) (08/03/89)
In article <2299@cbnewsm.ATT.COM>, moe@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (patrick.j.kelley) writes: > had dark wings and body with a red belly, brighter than the robins. Its > mate had the same pattern but with a yellow belly. I first thought the one I'm not that great on birds, but the red and yellow pair sounds like the Summer Tanager to me. Male is red, female has yellow/greenish belly. Range (Pa) sounds right. Anybody confirm or refute? -- Ed Matthews Verdix Corporation edm@verdix.com (703) 378-7600
mjm@oliven.olivetti.com (Michael Mammoser) (08/03/89)
In article <8867@cs.Buffalo.EDU>, dmark@cs.Buffalo.EDU (David Mark) writes: > Some of my favorite posting in the past have been: "I just saw a black > bird with a yellow head-- what could it have been??" A friend of mine, who lives in Carson City, had been seeing a bird that he never saw before then. He asked me what it was and described it as "a black bird with a yellow head". When I told him that it was a Yellow Headed Blackbird, he just laughed. I guess he thought that I was joking. It seems that a number of birds are named for the vocalizations that they make, that is, the sound of the bird's name is supposed to represent the sound that the bird makes. For instance, the Killdeer is so named because it makes a sound something like "kill-dee". As an interesting quiz for you netters: how many North American birds can you think of that meet this criterion? Mike P.S. it seemed that this news group was dead and then, I turned around and suddenly there's postings all over the place. Glad to see it.