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Pink Bird??

PostPosted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:50 am
by asirimarco
Saw this guy yesterday here in Huatabampito any one know what he is?
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Re: Pink Bird??

PostPosted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 10:24 am
by retiredhappy
I think that's Beth's favorite bird the spoonbill.

Re: Pink Bird??

PostPosted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 10:35 am
by avalen
oh yea, a spoonbill, yep, Beth's favorite bird

Re: Pink Bird??

PostPosted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 11:33 am
by Getupngo
As far as I'm concerned, it 's just a bird wading in NON-FROZEN water. Wish I was there ... :lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: Pink Bird??

PostPosted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 12:17 pm
by Bethers
It's not just any spoonbill - it's the Roseate Spoonbill. I LOVE them as they have already stated :) Have pics of them in my rig. They don't get to much of the US, but they are in the Port Aransas area and south. Actually, the furthest north I know of them wondering has been up by Port Lavaca, where the idiot with a little rv park there calls them flamingos. Duh.

Glad you saw some - aren't they neat?

Re: Pink Bird??

PostPosted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 2:15 pm
by asirimarco
Thank you - I knew someone would know. He was the only one there with a bunch of herons and white garzas (cranes I think)
Also saw another strange one but didn't get a picture. He was sitting on the beach. Quite a bit bigger than a seagull, smaller than a pelican. Black back, white breast, long skinny gray bill, blue webbed feet and waddled like a penguin when he walked. But as I tried to get a picture he flew away and hasn't been back.

Re: Pink Bird??

PostPosted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 3:51 pm
by Liz
asirimarco wrote: Quite a bit bigger than a seagull, smaller than a pelican. Black back, white breast, long skinny gray bill, blue webbed feet and waddled like a penguin when he walked. But as I tried to get a picture he flew away and hasn't been back.


Perhaps a blue-footed booby?.

http://images.google.com/images?sourcei ... oted+booby

Re: Pink Bird??

PostPosted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 5:36 pm
by asirimarco
Thank you - that is sure what it looked like - wow what a day a Blue Footed Booby and a Rosetta Spoonbill - maybe I'll have to take up a new hobby
wish he would come back so I could get a picture.
Thanks again

Re: Pink Bird??

PostPosted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 11:50 pm
by snowball
here I was all set to guess that it was Beth's favorite bird and you all did it!!!
Enjoy feeding birds and looking to see what they are but don't get a picture very often not fast enough
I guess saw one to day that looked like a pigeon with a Mohawk a white one that is don't know what it was
sheila