Our final quiz bird for 2008 was, up until 2000, known as Oldsquaw, but now goes by the name Long-tailed Duck. The bird in the photo is a male in basic or winter plumage. We'll start out the new year with this rather festive looking little bird of the west. Good luck and here's to a 2009 full of life birds!While pondering this week's bird, fly on over to A D.C. Birding Blog for this week's edition of Loose Feathers. Cool links to bird news and stories - one that caught my attention was to a story from Winnipeg about CBCer's watching a Northern Shrike take down a grosbeak. It reminded me of the very first bird count I ever did (a Spring migration count) where we found a family of Loggerhead Shrikes that had what was left of a mockingbird impaled on a strand of barbed wire.
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