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Could you please ID this bird for me?

5 years ago

Just this single bird - landed for a few minutes on the rooftop of a six-floor building. Sorry about the poor quality of the photos. It was high up on the rooftop and I didn't have much time to take a picture.

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catherinet

5 years ago

LOL.......yeah, give me geese over pythons too. I think it all started when people were able to get them as "pets", and then they let them loose when they didn't want them anymore, or they accidentally got loose. They're a real problem now. I just heard the other day that they caught one in Florida (the everglades) that was 17' long and had something like 73 eggs in it. I've also heard that the native animals in the Everglades have really become almost endangered species, because the pythons are eating them all. I guess with this global world....traveling, trading, selling plants/animals/trees, etc., everyone's native habitat is being overwhelmed by these non-native things. We have 35 acres and it unfortunately has been taken over with invasive plants that are originally from other countries. Unfortunately, it was the Department of Natural Resources that sold the worst of them to the man we bought this place from.

So.....I wish we could be more restrictive in what we're allowed to buy from other countries, as far as plant materials and animals.

Ok......can someone please help me off my soap box? ;)

I must say one nice thing.....I've started seeing a couple bald eagles around here occasionally. That's a good thing!

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wintercat_gw
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5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago
Additional details: the outside part of the wing was brown with a blue/turquoise patch - dark streaks across the blue patch I think. I'm in Israel and there's a lot of migrating birds passing here. Never saw this bird before, but I'm no bird watcher.
catherinet
5 years ago
Hmmm....I searched for a duck/goose with that round spot and found "Egyptian Goose". Try searching for that.
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wintercat_gw
Original Author
5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago
Might well be an Egyptian Goose. Thank you! I looked it up in my bird guide, which says it very raraly comes to Israel. Could it have strayed or got lost?

Still, the bird wasn't light brown but black and white mostly - the upper side of its body that is. Or was it cream coloured and not white? Very light cream - nearly white.
catherinet
5 years ago
Looks like it might sort of be a pest in some areas. I have a feeling that so many of our animals/birds/plants that have been moved from their original places can easily become pests in new settings, and disrupt the native habitats. Look at the problem with pythons in Florida. Here's an article about the Egyptian Goose in the U.S.

https://birdsna.org/Species-Account/bna/species/egygoo/introduction
wintercat_gw
Original Author
5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago
Thank you for the link to the article. Most likely it was an Egytian Goose. It was such an unexpected sight and quite moving for some reason. I didn't know you had pythons in Florida. I just checked on Wiki, which says Burmese pythons. Give me geese every day :)

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