re: Bird Migration Patterns - Western Hemisphere

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I swear this was done a week ago. It's still not a flamingo. Roseate Spoonbill.

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My sincerest apologies.

I don’t know anything about the previous thread.

I guess I’ll take your word on the spoonbill, although I don’t know how you could possibly know, since it may be a different bird I’m talking about than was previously discussed.

Spoonbill - common in LA.




Flamingo - uncommon in LA.




Now, which one did you see?

It was on the OB. I don't recall the OP of that thread suggesting that he thought it was a flamingo though.

I saw this image showing the migration a few weeks ago at a presentation given by Erik Johnson with the Audubon Society. Pretty cool stuff, and amazing to think that a citizen science tool like eBird can contribute to the scientific knowledge base.

I've been pretty sporadic in my eBird contributions over the last several years, and I know my list is lacking in some species that I have seen (based on the needs alerts I get every day), but it is still at a decent number of 200+ species.

It was fairly high in the sky. I don’t remember the black on the wings, but the legs were long like the picture of the flamingo. Are there spoonbill species with longer legs than that photo?

Ahhhh I thought the thread was here. No wonder I couldn’t find it.

Thanks for the link.

I'm a birder from way back (because I'm old).

To you both.