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My wife called me out to the yard to listen to a strange bird call one like Ive never heard before . I have lived here in Ak. all my life and I have never seen a bird like this .I think that maybe someone has lost this bird.So I was wondering if someone out there could ID it. [img][image] http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/49thunter/DSC08948.jpg[/img][/image]
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Looks like a ptarmigan to me.
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Never seen a ptarmichicken like this maybe a high bush variety
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I'm pretty sure it's a Downy Breasted Fluffy Feather. Or some kind of sap-sucker.
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Ummm....bobwhite quail.....where it was shipped from....I dunno <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />....
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Ya I was thinking that it could very well be a bobwhite quail.Not having heard one before I thought it was one of the neatest birds I have ever heard.
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well if it was a Bob white, it's call would let you know, mimic it's call while saying bob white, if it fits that's it, sure looks like one to me.
I certainly can't see the ptarmy in him.
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It is common to stock them for canned hunts....and they escape. If I were you, I get him while he is plumped and farm fed....good eatin' and he won't live through the winter, anyway!
Send me some feathers, if you decide to clock him...
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It is common to stock them for canned hunts....and they escape. If I were you, I get him while he is plumped and farm fed....good eatin' and he won't live through the winter, anyway!
Send me some feathers, if you decide to clock him...
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Very obviously, a Bobwhite Quail. Male to be exact. And if you got that close to take a pic, then it was a pen raised one. Quite a tasty treat too, battered and fried!
And the call would sound like" Boooob...Bob White!" (Bob lower pitched, White much higher)
Are you serious you didn't know that?
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Pugs, she is now a gun owner. By the way HG, did you ever shoot your rifle after you lowered the scope and how did you like it that way? miles
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Pugs, she is now a gun owner. By the way HG, did you ever shoot your rifle after you lowered the scope and how did you like it that way? miles Yep! I knew that and it wasn't an overnight transformation to our side but glad she's here!
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Click this link...look to the left of the page and click "song" to see if this is what you heard. That pic is a Male Bobwhite quail. Since it had to be pen raised, if you have toothy critters about, it wont last long. http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i2890id.html
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Loooks like every Bob White I have seen. And he is begging to be fried up!
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Yep, and make some biscuits and gravy to go along with the tasty little bugger.
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Yep, it a Bob White alright. It has been so long since I have seen one of those little things around my place, that I have almost forgotten what they look like. When I was a kid, we had two coveys that lived in our yard. Now, I will go all summer and maybe only hear one or two. It is a shame. I understand that they are making a comeback in some places and maybe they will in mine as well.
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They are coming back some...but with the rise in coyote population here in the south, snakes that eat them and their eggs (which have always been here), and most important the way we forrest and our agricultural changes...they wont be back in huge numbers. It takes very specific land managment to keep them up.
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Heard him across the street in the neighbors yard. If it returns to my yard I may have to take him out in Defence of Life and Property . Maybe a 8 or 10 in. cast iron skillet will do the trick. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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We use to have Bobwhites here in Ohio in somewhat limited numbers, but after the terrible Winter of 1977-78 when we got that huge snowstorm that dumped a couple of feet of snow on everything, the Bobwhites disappeared and have never really returned. That storm pretty well marked the "finis" of the wild pheasant hunting too... at least in S.W. Ohio where I live. It use to be sooooooooo much fun to go out with the Model 42 Winchester (the .410 version of the Model 12) and the various hunting dogs I owned when I was in my 20's and 30's... and knock down a half dozen or so quail for dinner. Talk about "yummy" eating... WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Even better than pheasant!!! But those days are "gone" now... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> Quail hunting sure was fun. When the covey flushed (and sometimes scared the tar outta you), you had to learn to pick out ONE INDIVIDUAL BIRD and shoot it first, then go to a 2nd. individual bird if you had time after a covey rise. It took me a while to learn that "lesson". At first, I'd shoot at the whole covey... (aka "covey shoot")... and never hit a @#%$#^@ thing. Buttttttt, after a while, you "learn"... or you go "quail-less". <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> To you guys and gals who still live where there is "huntable" numbers of wild quail... I envy you. It's the best upland game hunting in the world... and the eatin' ain't "bad", either! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Strength & Honor... Ron T.
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Did you click the link I posted to listen to the call?
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