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Started by Kurt Horsley, 05/11/2005 02:02PM
Posted 05/11/2005 02:02PM Opening Post
This is a truly terrible picture but I thought I'd post it anyway to see if anyone can identify the bird. I photographed it near Austin, TX last month.
I'm thinking it might be a scarlet tanager, but it doesn't look like the others I've seen before. It was a fairly large bird, even for a tanager.
I had to shoot it through glass and in low light so the image is really bad. -Kurt Horsley

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Posted 05/12/2005 01:27AM #1
Kurt Horsley said:

This is a truly terrible picture but I thought I'd post it anyway to see if anyone can identify the bird. I photographed it near Austin, TX last month.
I'm thinking it might be a scarlet tanager, but it doesn't look like the others I've seen before. It was a fairly large bird, even for a tanager.
I had to shoot it through glass and in low light so the image is really bad. -Kurt Horsley

That's a Summer Tanager molting into it's summer/adult plumage.

Jeff

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