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Help Id bird

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 1:24 pm
by getzapped
I took the pup out for a romp through ma prairie today and she kept jumping these birds.

They are the size of quail, look like quail with a yellowish bellow. They fly a little more gracefully than quail. They dont make any sounds when they flush except wingbeats. They only fly about 100yds before landing again.

I tries google but its not helping. Closest it comes up with is meadowlark. But that seems too small to be what we seen.

Any ideas?

Re: Help Id bird

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 2:55 pm
by DudeRN
could it be a flicker?

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http://www.neoperceptions.com/snakesand ... er%201.jpg

the behavior you describe sounds right.

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 3:06 pm
by getzapped
Its possible but the flickers i see around me are usually in trees. These were definitely ground birds.

Re: Help Id bird

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 3:16 pm
by RoostersMom
Woodcock....do you know that bird?

Help Id bird

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 3:24 pm
by getzapped
I have never seen one in person but i googled this image. The colors are spot on and i didnt get a good look at its beak. It says its a wading bird and there was alot of standing water. But i am almost positive it had some yellow at least undern its tail. But woodcock definitely looks like it.
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Re: Help Id bird

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 3:28 pm
by ezzy333
It is a northern flicker. Think they call the color phase you pictured is yellow shafted. What you describe sounds more like woodcock.

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 3:54 pm
by getzapped
Ill try to get a better look next time. It was too windy and wet today.

Re: Help Id bird

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 8:45 pm
by sdoliver
My guess is meadow larks

Re: Help Id bird

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 8:54 pm
by Scott Linden
+1 sdoliver ... my guess is meadowlark ... around here, some call them "practice quail." Not me, though.

Re: Help Id bird

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 9:04 pm
by ezzy333
Scott Linden wrote:+1 sdoliver ... my guess is meadowlark ... around here, some call them "practice quail." Not me, though.
Would be my guess also. They can look a lot like a quail when they get up and fly

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 9:46 pm
by getzapped
Meadowlark is the only bird i can find on internet that has a brown top and yellow belly. It must be.

Re: Help Id bird

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 3:41 pm
by bumper52
that is a northern flicker

Re: Help Id bird

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 3:44 pm
by luvthemud
Very pretty bird!

Re: Help Id bird

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 6:40 pm
by DudeRN
I see flickers on the ground pretty frequently. they are insect eaters, but don't catch them on the wing -- they eat ants and beetles on the ground, using their tongues to eat out of holes in the ground.

Re: Help Id bird

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 8:04 pm
by whatsnext
The past two days I have moved a few woodcock while running the dogs,so they are starting to move back through this area. I only live about 30 miles south of the OP.

Help Id bird

Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 11:05 am
by rselliott725
Sounds like a meadow lark.