Date:         Tue, 9 Oct 2001 21:37:56 -0400
Reply-To:     "Marion M. Dobbs" <marion@MINDSPRING.COM>
Sender:       Georgia Birders Online <GABO-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Marion M. Dobbs" <marion@MINDSPRING.COM>
Subject:      Fw:      [BIRDCHAT] Help with Georgia bird ID
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Anybody want to jump in and help Wayne out?

Marion M. Dobbs
Rome  GA
marion@mindspring.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne Hsu" <WayneHsu@BIRDLOVER.COM>
To: <BIRDCHAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 8:56 PM
Subject: [BIRDCHAT] Help with Georgia bird ID


> Dear all,
>
> I just got back from a collecting trip to Sapelo Is., GA, with my Insect
> Systematics class over fall break. We were told to pack lightly, so I did
> not bring my field guide which turned out to be a very bad idea. There
were
> many birds that I could not identify. I was wondering whether anyone can
> help me with the ones which I got better views of:
>
> 1. Warbler, white eye crescents interrupted by small black eyeline. Olive
> green back with faint wing bar. White on outer tail feathers. Yellow belly
> with some streaks near wing. On scrub by seashore.
>
> 2. Warbler? Black eyeline, whitish brow. Greenish-brown back, yellow rump
> and undertail coverts. Some streaking on belly. White on outer tail
> feathers. Foraging on ground under sparse pine forest.
>
> 3. Warbler, yellowish eye crescents interrupted by faint black
> eyeline.  Gray throat and yellowish belly. Greenish back and tail. Two
> white wing bars, black legs. In forest.
>
> 4. Wabler, eye crescents, grayish belly, olive-green back with a white
spot
> on base of primaries.
>
> 5. Vireo with yellowish throat and undertail coverts. Black eyeline and
> brow (lateral crown stripe), whitish brow (supercilium), greenish back. In
> forest.
>
> 6. Thrush sp., all brown (not Veery or Hermit) with spots on breast. In
> forest. Possibilities?
>
> Below are the rest of the birds I observed on this trip. Please comment if
> you see anything out of the ordinary. Thanks!
>
> Brown Pelican
> Double-crested Cormorant
> Black-crowned Night-Heron
> Tricolored Heron
> Little Blue Heron
> Snowy Egret
> Great Egret
> Great Blue Heron
> Wood Stork
> White Ibis
> Turkey Vulture
> Black Vulture
> Osprey
> Bald Eagle
> Red-tailed Hawk
> American Kestrel
> Merlin
> Clapper Rail (heard)
> Black-bellied Plover
> Semipalmated Plover
> American Oystercatcher
> Willet
> Greater Yellowlegs
> Lesser Yellowlegs
> Sanderling
> Dunlin ?
> Semipalmated Sandpiper ?
> Laughing Gull
> Ring-billed Gull
> Royal Tern
> Caspian Tern
> Common Tern ?
> Least Tern
> Mourning Dove
> Eurasian Collared-Dove
> Belted Kingfisher
> Red-bellied Woodpecker
> Northern Flicker
> Downy Woodpecker
> Pileated Woodpecker
> Blue-headed Vireo
> Red-eyed Vireo ?
> Blue Jay
> American Crow
> Fish Crow
> Tree Swallow
> Barn Swallow
> Tufted Titmouse
> Carolina Chickadee
> Brown-headed Nuthatch
> Carolina Wren
> Eastern Bluebird
> Thrush sp.
> American Robin
> Gray Catbird
> Northern Mockingbird
> Brown Thrasher
> European Starling
> Warblers ?
> Common Yellowthroat (a female flew into a window while I was collecting at
> a gas station at 3 am; it appeared unhurt, and I released it the next
morning)
> American Redstart
> Summer Tanager
> Eastern Towhee
> Northern Cardinal
> Painted Bunting
> Red-winged Blackbird
> Common Grackle
> Boat-tailed Grackle
> American Goldfinch
>
> Wayne Hsu
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