Birb

Gravdigr · 05-17-2019, 01:48 PM

I didn't know that hawks had canard wings:

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Oh, it's another birb...Must be a canardinal.

TIHAW, try the wings.

xoxoxoBruce · 05-17-2019, 10:58 PM

It's a Kingbird.

Carruthers · 05-18-2019, 05:58 AM

Birbiplane...

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Two red kites look rather like a biplane in a picture by amateur photographer Wayne Lewis that captured them flying in formation at Bwlch Nant-Yr-Arian feeding station, near the village of Ponterwyd in Aberystwyth, Wales.

The native Red Kite population was persecuted almost to extinction in the 19th century and just a small number were left in mid-Wales.

Since then a local re-introduction project has increased the numbers substantially and they are now a frequent sight hereabouts.

We had one land in the front garden a few years ago and occasionally they settle in the tall trees behind the house.

Sadly, I found one bird that had flown into a power cable and severed a wing.

I took the poor soul to a nearby wildlife hospital and they were hopeful that it would survive in captivity as the point where the wing was severed is the point used in amputation and doesn't bleed too badly.

Unfortunately, it succumbed about a fortnight later.

Gravdigr · 05-18-2019, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

It's a Kingbird.

Good catch, and thanks for the ID.

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A kingbird was photographed in 2009 defending its young by landing on and sinking its talons into the back of a red-tailed hawk and pecking its skull until the red-tailed hawk gave up and flew away...The genus name means "tyrant".

~Wiki

xoxoxoBruce · 05-23-2019, 11:50 PM

One of steve biro's pictures...

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