but, Patti...his feet are all wet!

Dwarf Cassowary

The Karam of the New Guinea Highlands identify
bats and flying birds
as one classification (yaket), and the Dwarf Cassowary,
an extremely large wingless,
flightless
bird
as another classification (kobtiy). Whereas yaket are bony
with wings and fly in the air, kobtiy are bony without wings
and are terrestrial, of the forest. Kobtiy are different from other bony
wingless animals in that kobtiy are not
quadrupedal, like dogs and lizards,
and
are not
limbless, like
snakes.


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dark-backed wood quail
a lovely, nearly spherical being.

the picture is from mangoverde, http://www.mangoverde.com/birdsound/picpages/pic37-19-1.html

their song:
http://www.xeno-canto.org/sounds/uploaded/EGHCOFEENE/Dark-backed_Wood-quail1.mp3

While hiking on the beach with several friends, when a common tern was spotted,  someone would say  "Look, there is a comintern!"  Gayle

Yes, common terns are known to be always prepared to fight, by all available means, including throwing fish, for the overthrow of the unintentional beachball and for the creation of an international Sternidae republic!

um...speaking of revolutionary and reformist wings, is it SUNDAY yet?

Maybe not on the left coast, but here in the midwest it IS.

on the other hand, here is a chaffinch I photographed in New Zealand.

yo! Nutcracker is a corvid? I had no idea.

BUTTS of Bewick's swans, Aafke. Great photo - that's my favorite way to see a swan; with the biting part underwater. They look like icebergs: one dirty, one clean.

[cinerious antshrike]

Ohhh were still doing B's

The cinerious antshrike begs to differ, and you don't want to get those bad boys POd. They just look tiny.

and one I definitely did NOT see, but admire; if I met one I would invite it to dinner and try to get to know it better.

Cinerious antshrike
 
the picture below comes from this page:
http://www1.nhl.nl/~ribot/english/thca_ng.htm

where you can also hear his song, if you are a dog.
not exactly, but it's pretty high-pitched.

shoot, Patti. I guess I have to post at least ONE "C" that I actually SAW.

OK, then, my picture of eight California Condors at big sur.

yes, they are condors, not fly poop on the camera lens.

B - Blackbird   I like the red wing blackbirds with the dab of red and dab of yellow on males only. The female is dark brown.  They eat seeds and bugs.

speaking of which, look at what I recently learned - THIS is the juvenile male RWB!!

sorry, it was I who jumped the gun. I was just so darn anxious to post that boat-billed heron I forgot the rules. Does that ever happen to you, with boat-billed herons? Also, I have no idea what day it is.

patti, you have great birds! love the grouse, too...

and BARN SWALLOWS HEY! I have those!
These were from the 2005 and 2006 nestings under my back staircase!

A is for Agami Heron...I took this photo at the Tambopata Research Center in the Peruvian jungle!

that looks like a porcelain bird.

I was going to comment on what good birds people were choosing - and then I realized I would be hard put to name a "bad" bird.
Well, except for when my parrots would chew up books.
And the robin that sings in my tree all night all spring and summer.

[A]

A is for American Goldfinch -- Dad feeding a fledgling in the back yard...

aw, patti - that's a terrific picture!!!