Bird Identification

cut throat finch

Nope not it...

I can't find it anywhere....There's only 10,000 species of birds in the world, lol!!

Where did you see the bird?

kinda looks like a backyard breeder had a cut throat finch and crossed it with something else

yes -- it seems a very small bird for the size of the beak

Join the forum on this site and let them have a stab at it... http://www.whatbird.com/

My initial guess is immature sapsucker

I also thought it was a red-naped sapsucker juvenile but the beak seems more crow-like so not sure

not the right beak for a sapsucker, or markings...

Try here

http://www.worldbirdnames.org

There are photos under the family links section under the IOC Lists tab

Where was this taken?

~Michel Soucy

Thanks everyone checking your links now!

Judy lives in Florida, I'd bet Florida.

If you're on Facebook, you may want to post it to https://www.facebook.com/groups/floridabirds , someone may be able to help.

~Michel Soucy

best guess is a male juvenile yellow-bellied sapsucker or red-naped sapsucker, the are brown first year

I'd say it's either an escapee or a bird that has been tossed out of it's normal range. It isn't any of the woodpecker tribe - a seed eater of some sort.

yes, the conical beak suggested to me something in the cardinal/grosbeak sort. Or as Maggie suggests the beak is crow-like

So this has been driving me nuts as I am pretty good at ID'ing birds. I agree the beak is not a woodpecker and in searching internet believe it to be a "black-spotted barbet" native to South America, although in looking at your pics there is a band or something on it's one leg so believe this to be an escaped pet.

Very good, Marie. That looks like it: http://www.bing.com/search?q=black-spotted+barbet&src=IE-SearchBox&FORM=IENTTR&conversationid=

omg,Marie and Kip, bravo.. that's it for sure!

Thanks everyone for helping . Kudos Kip,,don't know how you found this,,,I spent hours trying yesterday, This is one of the most energetic ,playful sassy bird I have ever seen,

Was wondering what the blurry bit was by the leg... would have been good info to know you tried cloning out a band - more likely to be an exotic pet with that.

Kinda don't feel bad for someone losing a pet like this - bet he's happy to be flying around outside!

Yes, that blurry thing was a Cube shaped ID on its tiny leg. I tried cloning it out but it was very green,very large and I could not clone it out without leaving that blur, I use the retouch tool in iPhoto,,,Is there a better tool or are they all about the same?

So apparently, then, an escaped pet in Florida. Not, as I supposed, maybe migrating up from central or south America, then.

Kip, its the newest edition to one of the exhibits at Zoo Miami, The bird was so new none of the employees could id it either, So glad you found it.. I have updated the keywords on each image, This afternoon I will try again to clone out that band around its little foot , Do you or anyone know if some tools are better than others? I use the iPhoto retouch tool It works on some images better than others, I had a trial program with pixelmator that expired, This program had a "Heal" (?) tool, ,,,are all of these tools basically the same or do some have better capabilities than others?

Ohh, I see.

If Marie above had not first id'd it as the way she did, a barbet, I would have had no idea. My hardcopy Guide to North American Birds lists no barbet its index, and the closest I could get in it picture-wise was, as suggested above, a sapsucker, which the yellow-bellied might resemble as a juvinile.

Re: photoediting, online free Gimp photoeditor might do it. I use to do my retouching using it. I've heard it said it's on a par with Photoshop.

Right now for retouching I just use Microsoft Paint, which will clone, that came with my desktop which for my purposes seems to do fine.

Thanks Kip!