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How to Know the Birds: No. 17, Grackles in the Blink of an Eye

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On a sunny afternoon a couple of weeks ago, we were at a truck stop on I-70 in eastern Colorado. It was a solid two hours from home, what with the Friday evening rush in the Denver metro region still to come. The establishing shot:

You know the saying. “You’re never not a birder.” So I hopped out of the vehicle and prepared to conduct the field work for a quick eBird checklist, area count protocol. The first birds:

One in particular was endearingly pathetic, and I made this video:

If iNat accepted videos, I seriously wonder if the top three choices would be American Dipper, Pallas’s Dipper (of Asia), and genus Grallaria (the antpittas).

Here’s additional footage of the bird:

Okay, maybe not a dipper after all, but Grallaria is still looking good, and I’m especially liking iNat’s “rails and crakes” entry. This sure brings back memories of Matt Daw’s clip of the Rufous-necked Wood-Rail scampering across the clearing at Bosque del Apache.

Here’s a still:

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Source: http://blog.aba.org/2019/09/how-to-know-the-birds-no-17-grackles-in-the-blink-of-an-eye.html


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