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Monday Silhouette Mystery 022420
A couple of weeks back, I wrote about the John James Audubon exhibits at the New-York Historical Society.
The room where his watercolors are displayed has a large blue-painted silhouette of a bird above the door.
What's the bird?
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Northern Flicker — Audubon included a detailed study of the pointy tail feathers for his watercolor of the bird, which the silhouette captures
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I thought grackle as well.
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Every late winter we get one great tailed grackle at our feeder. Looks like our visitor.
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Diane Louie
Northern Flicker — Audubon included a detailed study of the pointy tail feathers for his watercolor of the bird, which the silhouette captures
R F
I thought grackle as well.
Sally
Every late winter we get one great tailed grackle at our feeder. Looks like our visitor.