Help identifying a dead bird.

[Waldo1]

It's not dead. It's resting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnciwwsvNcc

And now I have to dig through my CD anthology of Monty Python's syndicated episodes and re-watch (yet again) the Dead Parrot Sketch. Then I'll go for The Cheese Shop and probably just grab a bottle of Maker's Mark and watch The Meaning of Life. "Better get a bucket..."

[Great-Kazoo]

And now I have to dig through my CD anthology of Monty Python's syndicated episodes and re-watch (yet again) the Dead Parrot Sketch. Then I'll go for The Cheese Shop and probably just grab a bottle of Maker's Mark and watch The Meaning of Life. "Better get a bucket..."

You gonna invite the piranha brothers over ?



He nailed you head to a coffee table?

[Duman]

It’s a swallow. I’ll leave it to the crowd to decide European or African.

[BPTactical]

It’s a swallow. I’ll leave it to the crowd to decide European or African.

Well one thing for sure, it has no airspeed velocity.

[hatidua]

That's not a bird at all, it's just a whole bunch of untied flies. Toss in some hooks, a bit of thread, a vise and some knowhow and it's 500+ flies.

[th3w01f]

We were learning towards flicker as well but it doesn’t have any color. If they’d just left the head it would be a lot easier. I agree that the feet don’t look any a raptor of any sort.

[Bailey Guns]

Dead Bird Lives Matter

[Gman]

Dead Bird Lives Matter

Seems a bit contradictory. The organization Bird Lives Matter (BLM) should get support without people even understanding what they're contributing to.

[Hummer]

That, unfortunately, is a Common Poorwill. And not so common anymore. The brown and black patterned primary wing feathers and the complex mottling of the gray-black-white back, rump and tail feathers helps identify it. Look at the white tips to the outer tail feathers, often easily seen when the bird flushes from the ground. The description of it's small feet is also apt, but poorwills aren't anything close to a 2.5 lb. grouse. They weigh ~1.8 oz. Poorwills are noctournal aerial insectivores related to swifts but they roost on the ground or on fences during the day and fly at night. Thus they are easy prey to free-roaming and feral non native cats. Cats which would be responsibly keep indoors only.

Poorwills eat their weight every night in mosquitoes and other flying bugs. They are so named because their call is easily identifiable: poor-will, poor-will. They are a stocky, short-tailed bird, 7.75" long, with a 17" wingspan and very broad wings. I have found poorwills from the desert, prairie, farmland, to ponderosa pine and even in rocky alpine tundra areas. But they are not numerous and are one of the many bird species experiencing a population wide crash.

Btw, I think flicker was a good guess, and poorwills are sometimes mistaken for small owls because of their large black eyes, short tail and short decurved bill.


https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/...rwill/overview

[th3w01f]

@hummer. That looks like what it is. I’d never seen or heard of those.