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Came across a very dead bird in a piece of equipment today, just wondering what it is. My guess is some kind of cormorant.
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Dec 10, 2014 23:07
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I'm not an expert or anything but I'd say it's an Alkonost.
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Dec 11, 2014 08:56
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Definitely not a cormorant (which has a long neck, more slender bill with a hook on the end etc). It's a bit hard to tell from the photograph but my best guess is some kind of large northern hemisphere gull (i.e. a herring gull rather than a southern hemisphere silver gull), a petrel, or an albatross. I can't tell how big it is, and I don't know what part of the world you're in, which would help me narrow it down. Knowing what's common, it's most likely a herring gull, just degraded/darkened from its original colour.
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Dec 11, 2014 12:11
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Infamous Sphere posted:I can't tell how big it is, and I don't know what part of the world you're in, which would help me narrow it down. Knowing what's common, it's most likely a herring gull, just degraded/darkened from its original colour. Northeastern seaboard. Corpse was at least a foot long.
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Dec 11, 2014 15:13
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Common brushtail possum.
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Dec 11, 2014 18:20
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Twisted headed vulture.
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Dec 12, 2014 22:48
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Black, white and green.
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Dec 14, 2014 11:16
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A dead one.
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Dec 16, 2014 03:37
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Does it taste more like chicken or duck?
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Dec 16, 2014 03:48
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The green irridescence leads me to believe that it is a Common Grackle, but they have yellow eyes. Could very well be a European Starling, which are pretty varied in coloration but have the characteristic yellow beak and black eyes, but the corpse lacks the long neck feathers and has a whitish breast Can you get any better pictures?
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Dec 25, 2014 22:50
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^^^Grackles are all black with black legs and are not that large, and starlings are also all black with yellow speckles and only about 5-6 inches tall. It looks like a seagull. White head, grey wings, large beak, the feet look webbed, and the size is about right. Skutter fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Dec 26, 2014 |
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Dec 26, 2014 00:47
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Yeah, that is definitely not a grackle or starling. The beak is way too long, and grackles and starlings are more compact. Besides, the green looks more like a stain than actual plumage. Likely a gull of some kind, but would need more on the habitat it was found in.
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Dec 26, 2014 05:39
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I was going off of the green alone. Figured it would be the most distinc characteristic so it didn't occur to me that it could be a stain
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Dec 27, 2014 05:18
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It's me mum.
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Jan 1, 2015 01:35
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Looks like a seagull. The green - it was probably sprayed with poison at an airport or some other place where large numbers of birds are a problem.
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Jan 1, 2015 13:17
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Death to all dinosaurs.
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Jan 1, 2015 21:23
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Its a Shitbird.
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Jan 1, 2015 23:31
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Naturalist girlfriend says it's some kind of gull, probably immature...but with such a fuzzy picture it's hard to tell. Check Sibley's Guide to Birds for gulls and you'll probably find one that looks close.
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Jan 2, 2015 02:04
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Suicide Sam E. posted:Looks like a seagull. The green - it was probably sprayed with poison at an airport or some other place where large numbers of birds are a problem. Coming from a Midwestern background heavy in duckweed, I'd figured it was more like plant algae.
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Jan 3, 2015 01:07
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It's a bald eagle but the face has been squished . Source: 10 years of being an ornotholilgist and wind turbine tech.... Yeah, a kindof tragic intersection of study/career choice 
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Jan 5, 2015 00:33
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The 5th Foid posted:It's a bald eagle but the face has been squished . Source: 10 years of being an ornotholilgist and wind turbine tech.... Yeah, a kindof tragic intersection of study/career choice I hope this is a joke, because that beak? Not an eagle.
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Jan 5, 2015 01:12
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Post in the birding thread that got moved to PI http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3566028
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Jan 5, 2015 16:50
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Turtle without its shell
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