# What kind of bird did I see?

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**Created:** [June 9, 2005, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-bird-did-i-see/307553 "2005-06-09T02:55:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Iluvatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/aca169/32.png) [@Iluvatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iluvatar)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-bird-did-i-see/307553/1 "2005-06-09T02:55:19Z")

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I saw two birds I had never seen before today. I was able to identify the first one as a Bobolink. I haven’t had any luck on the second one though. It had a dark head, whitish body with a red patch on its chest. I was looking up at it so I didn’t get a good view of its back, but it looked kind of like the back of a Downy Woodpecker. It’s beak kind of looked like a Zebra finch’s, only more yellow instead of orange. When it flew away it looked like the underside of its wings were also red.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Cockatiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cockatiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cockatiel)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-bird-did-i-see/307553/2 "2005-06-09T03:02:16Z")

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A rose-breasted grosbeak?

[http://halfreycottage.com/images/2004.04.21/rose-breasted-grosbeak-2.jpg](http://halfreycottage.com/images/2004.04.21/rose-breasted-grosbeak-2.jpg)  
[![](http://www.hiltonpond.org/images/GrosbeakRoseBreastedM01.jpg) ](http://www.hiltonpond.org/images/GrosbeakRoseBreastedM01.jpg)

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**Author:** ![Iluvatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/aca169/32.png) [@Iluvatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iluvatar)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-bird-did-i-see/307553/3 "2005-06-09T03:07:42Z")

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> [@Cockatiel](#):
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> A rose-breasted grosbeak?
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> [http://halfreycottage.com/images/2004.04.21/rose-breasted-grosbeak-2.jpg](http://halfreycottage.com/images/2004.04.21/rose-breasted-grosbeak-2.jpg)  
> [http://www.hiltonpond.org/images/GrosbeakRoseBreastedM01.jpg](http://www.hiltonpond.org/images/GrosbeakRoseBreastedM01.jpg)

That’s it! Thanks!