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Re: Unknown bird
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Sameer Apte <[log in to unmask]>
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Sameer Apte <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 8 Jan 2015 11:50:25 -0500
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Dillon,
Watch for white flashes on the Snow Buntings when they fly. The Longspurs and Larks will lack those.
Good birding,
Sameer Apte
On Jan 7, 2015, at 9:15 PM, Brad Jackson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Sounds like Horned Larks, at least that's likely what they would be around here. (Western Ohio to Central Indiana)Dark ones could be Lapland Longspurs, but often those are more in the middle of fields. If there is snow cover, it could be a mixed flock of Horned Larks, Lapland Longspurs, and Snow Buntings!!
> Good Luck!
> Brad JacksonFishers IN
> 
> 
>     On Wednesday, January 7, 2015 7:38 PM, Dillon Nott <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> 
> With me being a young birder, and not as experienced as some of you, I've
> seen some small gray brown birds on the side of the roads with the snow and
> salt. I know these aren't Juncos, but I'm not sure if there Snow Buntings.
> I've never seen one, possibly. But there a tiny bit bigger than a House
> Sparrow, on the side of roads in small flocks of 7 or so, and are
> white-gray-brown. I can't get good observations on them because I'm always
> in the car when I see them. Are these Snow Buntings?
> Champaign County-Woodstock
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