Help in ID

[brighamr at freeway.net]

All,

I will obviously be checking the area for this bird
tomorrow. I got word from Mike Overway tonight that he was birding this
location Sat at 11:30am, but did not see the ibis. There are a number of
wet depressions in the vicinity that I will be looking over as well. This
is less than 1 mile south of where the 3 White-faced and single Glossy
were photographed May 7 this year on the Kalamazoo River.

Rick
Brigham
Douglas

> Rick and Mich-chatters,
> 
> Sena has sent me the photo, and in my opinion it is clearly an
ibis, either Glossy or White-faced. The bird is not close enough in the
photo
to
> be identifiable to species, but hopefully it can
be refound and
> photographed at close range. Quite an amazing
bird to be in Michigan in November!
> 
> Allen T.
Chartier
> amazilia1 at comcast.net
> Inkster, Michigan,
USA
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From: brighamr at freeway.net
>   To: Sena Mulder
>   Cc: mich-chat at envirolink.org
>   Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 8:40 PM
>   Subject: Re:
Help in ID
> 
> 
> 
>   Sena,
>

>   Very interesting bird. I lead a Capital Area Audubon field
trip
through
> Allegan County today and this was one of our
stops. However,
> unfortunately, there weren't any birds like you
described there today. It is a productive field, though. Today at this
site we had 160 Sandhill Crane, a mixed flock of 200 Herring and
Ringbilled Gull with a couple Bonaparte's. This is also the corner at
which 11 Franklin's Gull were last week. I am curious to see your photos
also. Hopefully you can find a way to post them.
> 
>  
Rick Brigham
>   Douglas
> 
>   > Yesterday
around 4pm I was in what I believe is Allegan County, not
> far
from
>   > Saugatuck/Douglas, on the corner of 128th Ave and
62nd, st, scanning
> the SE
>   > field for whatever
might be there when my specs ran across 2 large
> birds with
extremely, and I do mean extremely, long down curved bills. I have seen
>   > a whimbrel before in Florida but it looked like the bill was
even
> longer than that. I have a picture, not very clear, but it
does show how long
>   the
>   > bill was, the size of
the bird, and its gooselike neck. It does not,
> however, show any
markings. The bill was joined with the head, not stuck on
>   >
like a toothpick. It was walking, although not rapidly, around the
> water area probing, but not deeply, into the mud. I don't have any
place to
>   post
>   > this picture to help secure a
positive identification. Any
> suggestions?
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