{"id":14,"date":"2007-06-10T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-10T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2007-06-10T15:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-10T15:05:00","slug":"need-help-iding-this-bird-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/need-help-iding-this-bird-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Need help ID'ing this bird"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve been absent from this blog way too long. I’ve been very focused on building my business since the first of the year and devoting as much time & attention as possible to it. I’ve been able to update some photos on my BirdCam Photo Gallery but my beloved site has become woefully stale.<\/p>\n

I’m back… and have a lot of photos to add but also some birds I’ve observed and some fun and unique behaviors that I’d like to share. I also need your help! I need help ID’ing this bird.<\/span> I photographed it 24 May 2007 at Lake Hefner, Oklahoma City. At first it appeared to be a Western Kingbird, a familiar — though not as common as the Eastern — species in Central Oklahoma. But I then noticed this bird’s eye ring and started to take photos, trying to get as much detail as possible on an overcast, low-light day.<\/p>\n

What do you think this bird is? A Western Kingbird hybrid, has been one opinion. But what is the other parent? The pale base of the bill, in addition to the eye ring and the color on the bird’s back don’t match the Western Kingbird. My mentor Jim Arterburn is sending the photo to experts around the country to get some input but one response was “juvenile Western Kingbird,” an opinion that Jim and I don’t share. For one thing, this would be the earliest breeding record in Oklahoma for this species (to have fledged by 24 May) but also juveniles have pale bellies with only a hint of yellow. This one has strong yellow on the underside.<\/p>\n

So help?!! I’d appreciate your input!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been absent from this blog way too long. I’ve been very focused on building my business since the first of the year and devoting as much time & attention as possible to it. I’ve been able to update some photos on my BirdCam Photo Gallery but my beloved site has become woefully stale.<\/p>\n

I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}