Help ID this little bird

[kach22i]

Not a Tit, Woodpecker or Kingfisher, I don't know what it is.

What is it?

The pictures taken inside of the old garage are of the baby almost ready to leave the nest (nesting in my hanging hovercraft cover).

The pictures outside are not a very good representation, the head is large with a long bill, and there are twin black and white checkered tail feathers.

The bird is very cool and hops around very close to me most of the time. This morning other birds were very aggressive towards it and so it was more shy than usual. Also I almost closed the garage door on it as it flew past me which spooked both of us.

Baby:


Adult:

[nineoneone]

looks kinda like a Brown Thrasher.

[kach22i]

Originally posted by nineoneone
looks kinda like a Brown Thrasher.

Close guess, but it's not, the pictures I took make it look like one though.

The head appeards to be almost as large as the body, like a short legged Road-Runner.

The head and tail are larger on the adult than on the baby.

[dhoward]

Looks like a mockingbird to me. Large white markings on it's wings?

[masraum]

it's a wren

too small to be a thrasher or mockingbird, but may be too big to be a wren. Hard to tell from the photos. We just had a nest full of baby wrens hatch and fledge about 1-2 months ago on our back porch.

brown/rufus colored like a wren, tail sticks up like a wren, and the body shape is like a wren. Also, the way the baby in "perched" is more of a wren thing, leaning forward or standing on the side of something, where thrashers and mockingbirds stand up on top of stuff.

wren
house

Carolina


thrasher


mockingbird

[kach22i]

Originally posted by masraum
it's a wren

I think you might be right.

This picture of a Carolina Wren looks like the young one. I think their heads get a little larger and squarer when they get older.

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~barke042/Wren.php


I'll get my wife's opinion and a better picture of the parent bird.

We don't get these birds this far north (Michigan), at least I've never seen one before.

[sammyg2]

"Help ID this little bird"

I recognize that bird. His first name is Jim, can't remember his last name right now.
Glad I could help

[austin552]

Yes it's a Wren. We have Thrashers all over here. They make some bizare noises and run across the yard.

[masraum]

Originally posted by austin552
Yes it's a Wren. We have Thrashers all over here. They make some bizare noises and run across the yard.

Yep, thrashers make a racket.

Wrens have an amazing "voice" especially for such a small bird. Very loud and clear.

[kach22i]

Originally posted by masraum
Wrens have an amazing "voice" especially for such a small bird. Very loud and clear.

We noticed the new bird call a few weeks ago. My wife finally connected the dots last night. New bird, new call, but it's a pretty bird call.

[Ned nyna 11]

It's a Carolina Wren.

A particularly noisy bird!

[kach22i]

We were getting up extra early for the past couple of weeks because of these noisy but wonderful little birds. Saturday I spotted over a dozen gathering on a nearby lawn fluttering about, all the youngs ones - the parents had left.

I told my wife we might be able to sleep in Sunday because the birds were ready to leave, and we did sleep in, until 10:00 AM which we almost never do.

The birds were almost all gone Sunday. Maybe a half dozen left on the whole block, the slience was welcomed.

Empty nest (see pictures); my wife told me to close up the hole in the garage wall and seal up the underside of the door opening, once was enough.

[TerryH]

I happened to look up yesteday while cleaning the yard and took a double-take. We get the occasional falcon, but they are loners.

What do you call a handful of parrots? Gaggle, flock, herd... flaggle? Beautiful birds for sure.

[kach22i]

No gatherings of parrots in Michigan, can't help you on this one.

[masraum]

Originally posted by TerryH
I happened to look up yesteday while cleaning the yard and took a double-take. We get the occasional falcon, but they are loners.

What do you call a handful of parrots? Gaggle, flock, herd... flaggle? Beautiful birds for sure.

San Francisco has a flock of Conures. I saw a PBS show on them back around Memorial day.
the show


When I was about 4 in Florida, we used to have a flock of Parakeets that came through once or twice a year. There were hundreds, maybe a few thousand. Mostly the yellow/green ones, but some of the blue/white ones too.

[TerryH]

Came across this....

"Someone wrote to me recently asking what a group of parrots is called. My first reaction was, "a flock of parrots." That is the most common reference to them, but did you also know a group of parrots is called a pandemonium? It tells you something about the noise a wild flock of parrots can make because the definition of pandemonium is "wild uproar or noise!" (Source: American Heritage Dictionary). You can also call them a company of parrots.

Here are some other interesting names for groups of birds:

A flock, a flight, a pod, or a volery of birds

A murder of crows

A dole or flight of doves

A brace, bunch, flock, or team of ducks

An aerie or convocation of eagles

A gaggle of geese

A colony of gulls

A cast of hawks

A charm of hummingbirds

A band of bluejays

A watch of nightingales

An ostentation of peacocks

A bevy or covey of quails"