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Birders

hunter

(40,530 posts) Fri Jun 26, 2015, 11:46 AM Jun 2015

I just saw what looked like a common starling at first, similar colors, but with a very long bill. [View all]

Almost twice as long as the other starlings, which already have long bills. I'm in Central Coastal California, and saw the bird in the birdbath with the other starlings, but they were giving him hell, and he was giving it back.

I didn't have my camera or my bird book handy.

Except for that awkwardly long bill, I wouldn't have taken a second look.

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I just saw what looked like a common starling at first, similar colors, but with a very long bill. [View all] hunter Jun 2015 OP

not a grackle? NRaleighLiberal Jun 2015 #1

No. hunter Jun 2015 #2

How close to the coast are you? How about one of the shorebirds? csziggy Jun 2015 #3

It's the wrong color, but California Thrashers have long bills: cpwm17 Jun 2015 #4

You're going to want to sit down for this XemaSab Jul 2015 #5

Sad. Maybe he's a visitor from the toxic Silicon Valley. hunter Jul 2015 #6

Pretty much every bird with a bill that long is able to eat XemaSab Jul 2015 #7

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