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Monday Morning Mystery 040218
Sue Doughtery writes:
Can anyone identify this bird, photographed by a friend in Brooklyn recently?
That's some photo!
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The only bird I know with that curved bill is a Thrasher , Cuckoo I did find a picture of the bird but it was overseas and could not read the writing ?
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That magnificent boid is the scruffy Bed Sty long bill black bird
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starling with attitude.
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Ginny
The only bird I know with that curved bill is a Thrasher , Cuckoo I did find a picture of the bird but it was overseas and could not read the writing ?
Glenn Zoslaw
That magnificent boid is the scruffy Bed Sty long bill black bird
Edward Ned Mueller
starling with attitude.