Rudy the Rooster

Dale

ROOSTER... very, very old drawing -- of a rooster.
ROOSTER starts with R, right?

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A pair of RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS  - carmel valley, CA

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what's great about these threads is that we can KEEP adding to them, whenever any one of us makes a great ornithological discovery (including the kind of discovery we make when we clean out some old folders on the computer)!

As someone who has, in the deep past of course , been not uninvolved in similar late-night installations, I highly recommend it; even the humblest handmade ornament in a neutral public place is a good thing, and very fun. Just make sure you're not polluting, overly.

Singing QUAIL.
I found them on the internet and like the look of them:

The song (worth 20 seconds of one's life, I think):
http://www.xeno-canto.org/sounds/uploaded/NYTXYAQSTH/R092_0213%20Singing%20Quail%20song.mp3

Knut Eisermann photo below from this site:
http://ibc.lynxeds.com/photo/singing-quail-dactylortyx-thoracicus/pair-singing-quail-nocturnal-roost-site

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Anne, hahahahaha! What's the story behind that mountain quail arrangement!?! That's so very odd!!  I wonder where his "battery", "drift", "flush", "rout" or "shake" is...

Annette - one of the things I love about the Resplendent Quetzal (Quetzal is a Nahuatl word, I think) is the way the eye is positioned - kind of right in the middle of the head. Of course all that stuff on the other end of the beast is pretty amazing too-

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I figure several people might post QUAIL, so I'll stick with…

BUTTON QUAIL, which I go to visit regularly here in the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.

They have assorted button quail, including silver morphs, running around like crazy in the butterfly habitat. The chicks look like fuzzy grapes with wings.

Hey! You can mail order yourself a mess of button quail and let them dash around your house, too:

http://www.zebrafinch.com/quail_kit.html

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Paul, That yellow feather cocktail looks powerful!!

Linda - a genuine highlight of falcon-watching weekends was hen-feeding. Here's another -

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that bird is very far from dead! Two birders I sent the link to wrote back ecstatically about the prone bathing shots; that bird is ROLLING in the water! Those are the wildest pictures!

The wheatear is exactly handsome. Great bird

Pyrrhuloxia and House Finch were cast for this role on a purely chromatic basis - I'd have loved to see the auditions.  Cool picture.

Right...those "hatching and growing" shots of squabs are the ones I meant. That's so wild....willya look at those beaks...

Peregrine -
 
a few drawings based on the 2005 Rochester clutch: http://pesmen.com/falcons/

just a few of the later drawings: http://www.pesmen.com/2009/023.html

Here's one drawn from a shot Linn Pierson took of the Jersey City birds. She called the photo "Two and a Beak" because she realized after she took it that there was a third chick hiding there:

Dale

AHA!!  Brava!  I would never have seen a squab if Anne hadn't shared hers with me, for which I am eternally grateful. Anne, I really really think you ought to show a few more. They'e amazing - especially when they're really young and science-fiction-like. Their beaks are weird. I find it astounding that I can live in a veritable SEA of pigeons and never see a squab. I hear them in train underpasses, but never ever see them.

Since Pigeons have been mentioned...once, while wandering around in bird names, I found the name WONGA PIGEON - when I followed it up, I discovered an awfully nicely patterned pigeon. Photo below is by Glen Fergus - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wonga_Pigeon.jpg

Dale

Wow, you chicks are on a roll tonight!

some play strip poker; this is no doubt more attractive

I'd love to see more pukeko.

and i LOVE ptarmigan-of-the-feathery-toes

That warbler is an unimaginably gorgeous color