Back Capped Or Hybrid Chickadee In Great Smoky Mountains

Video: Back Capped Or Hybrid Chickadee In Great Smoky Mountains

Back Capped Or Hybrid Chickadee In Great Smoky Mountains

This Chickadee is having a great time and there is a special guest appearance at the end you'll want to stick around for. Positively ID'ing this bird is a bit of  a challenge - I am not an expert birder by any means. Here is a great resource on Chickadee identification.  This bird is at 4000 feet elevation in the Great Smoky Mountains where the Black-Capped Chickadee is know to replace the Carolina Chickadee or to possibly coexist. This is a bit of a rough looking bird (in a nice way) with a large messy bib and is likely the Black-Capped Chickadee or perhaps a hybrid?

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Huge Eurasian Collared Dove in Florida

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Huge Eurasian Collared Dove in Florida - may be a hybrid or "mutant"

This pair of collared-Doves are lighter and a lot larger  than I've seen in the backyard before. See for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfiFOn84PAc 

which shows a typically grayer and smaller Eurasian Collared Dover in our yard last winter. These may be hybrids or descendants of breeder's birds in Florida. The larger one is probably a male and he towers over a mature male Common Grackle which is a good sized bird. These big Doves are a bit slow and need to watch out for our resident Red-Shouldered Hawks! What a meal they would make....

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