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Unusual Birds Gallery
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Find out how to identify birds and download identification tools
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Graphs of regional population trends and distributions
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Lab scientists analyze the data submitted by FeederWatch participants.
See birds well outside their winter range submitted to Project FeederWatch.
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Pennington, NJ, USA
Canada with black and white speckled neck.
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There are three of these on a pond in Texarkana, Arkansas this morning. New to me but gorgeous birds!
Just had one land in the river in front of my house here in southern Ontario. 95% white neck and head with a few small black patches. Flying with about 9 regular Canadian geese.
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