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Birders

csziggy

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3. How close to the coast are you? How about one of the shorebirds?

Reply to hunter (Reply #2)

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 11:25 PM

Jun 2015

I wonder if it could be one of the sandpipers, a whimbrel or a curlew? Whimbrel and curlews have "absurdly long and slightly curved" bills.

But they don't tend to be as dark as starlings.

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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