Comments on: Spotlight On…

By: nature

nature — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:44:30 +0000

Great guesses! Congratulations to Neil who correctly guessed Gavia immer, the common loon. There's a great entry for them on Cornell University's All About Birds (a site we use frequently here at the Naturalist Center). I highly recommend playing the audio file of their call to startle your coworkers. We'll have a new guess the specimen game up on Tuesday, but in the meantime won't you tell us Who Pooped?

By: Craig Rosa

Craig Rosa — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:24:47 +0000

(specifically, the California Clapper rail (Rallus longirostris obsoletus)

By: Craig Rosa

Craig Rosa — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:49:21 +0000

I am going to say – Clapper rail.

By: Brennan

Brennan — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:35:41 +0000

Red Shouldered Hawk

By: Lorelei

Lorelei — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:50:26 +0000

Either a Bald Eagle or an Osprey?

By: eileen

eileen — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:57:07 +0000

Tough one! I’m guessing it’s a sea otter. That looks like close up fur?

By: Dani

Dani — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:42:01 +0000

Could it be a bald eagle? I don’t know about the mouth adaptations, but I know that mercury poisoning is a serious threat to bald eagles, and that bald eagles have brown feathers with white spots when they’re young.

By: tim vogel

tim vogel — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:35:19 +0000

My guess is the osprey!

By: Andrew Wolf

Andrew Wolf — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:29:57 +0000

It’s a brown pelican. DUH

By: neil

neil — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:17:11 +0000

Gavia? Maybe G. immer?