Hi Ian,

The wing pattern is really interesting, like eyes on
the back of the bird. I can't even begin to guess
what it could be. Maybe an escaped exotic bird.

Kathy

--- birdbooker at zipcon.net wrote:

> HI:
> I saw this on another listserver, any guesses?
> We interrupt your daily dose of gulls to bring you
> this quite odd
> passerine, photographed at a feeder in Quebec:
>
> http://www.pbase.com/kcfoggin/mystery__birds
>
> There has already been some speculation on the
> bird's identity at the
> carolinabirds list, which you can find here if you
> want it
>
> http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CARO.html
>
> but in case you want a fresh unbiased crack at it,
> I'll avoid repeating
> the speculation so far.
>
> Well, I will say this - although the red color has
> led some to
> speculate on a finchy ancestry, to my mind, the
> posture says "ground
> feeding sparrow/junco" and the speculation along
> those lines (i.e.,
> sparrow with abnormal red coloration) has seemed
> more plausible to me.
>
> Chris
>
>
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> Christopher E. Hill
>
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> Ian Paulsen
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> \"Rallidae all the way!\"
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