Subject: [Tweeters] What is this bird?
Date: Sep 17 18:32:57 2012
From: Bob Sundstrom - ixoreus at scattercreek.com
Looks like a Rufous Hornero, which builds large mud oven-like nest. (horno = oven) Argentina's national bird, where common on central part of country.
Bob
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On Sep 17, 2012, at 5:55 PM, "henneq" <henneq at comcast.net> wrote:
> An email has been going around featuring a pair of industrious birds building an elaborate mud nest. I?ve tried to identify the birds by checking the website of the photographer (a web address is written in the corner of the photos), but the website comes up in Arabic. Here?s a link to the photos in question:
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> http://waveavenue.com/profiles/blogs/bird-abode-builder-by-master-cartpenter
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> Any ideas of what these birds are?
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> By the way, in ?Googling? these photos, it is amusing to me that some versions credit ?Allah?, while other versions credit ?the Master Carpenter? for the ?miracle? of this nest.
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> Thanks.
>
> Henne Queisser
> Redmond, WA
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