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WARNING - slighltly gory shot.....






















But, I'll pick the low-hanging fruit with a Black Vulture....

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Here's a Y bird - Lesser Yellowlegs from Port Aransas, TX

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And as far as I can tell, there are no Z birds at all that qualify for this challenge.

So I say we start again, but this time we change the rules again.

This time you are handing off your bird name to the next person. The next person must post a bird whose first name begins with the last letter of the last name of the preceding species.

So, if I post

Resplendant Quetzal
the next bird must start with L, like
Little Blue Heron
which must be followed by an N bird light..
Nankeen Night-Heron
followed by another N bird, etc.

I'm not sure how long we can keep this up? Some letters may kill the cycle.

So, I'll start us off with an A bird

Andean Emerald from Ecuador

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Now someone follow with a D bird....
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Fun idea, Chris! I'll pick it up with a

Double-crested Cormorant

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Trumpeter Swan

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How about a female Eastern bluebird

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Dunlin

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Trying to find a bird that doesn't end in D....

Northern Cardinal

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Little Blue Heron
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A Northern mockingbird

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Dickcissel

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Least Sandpiper

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Red-shouldered Hawk

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Kelp Gull

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One unanticipated problem with this "game" is that is seems there are some really common letters to end bird names (D, R, L, N, etc).
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Least Grebe
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Eared GrebE - ooh, ooh, do I get extra points for starting and ending with the same letters??

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Eastern Meadowlark

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Kirtland's Warbler
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Red-winged Blackbird
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OK, Time out.....

It seems I overlooked the fact that most bird names end with just a few common letters which means we are pretty much repeating the letters over and over.

Let's change it up.

Your bird name must be a multi-word name (no Killdeer, Emu, Dunlin, etc).

The bird you post must have two (or more) parts and the next person must post a bird starting with the FIRST letter of the LAST part of the previous bird's name.

So......

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher could be followed by Franklin's Gull, which could then be followed by Greater Ani, then maybe Allen's Hummingbird, etc.

This should spice things up a bit more.

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So going off the last bird posted (Red-winged Blackbird), I need a B bird......

another Ecuadorian bird, Buff-winged Starfrontlet

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OK, I'll try.

Sandhill Crane

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Carolina Wren

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Wandering Tattler (Taveuni, Fiji)

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Tufted Duck:

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Dusky Flycatcher - Colorado.

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Florida Scrub Jay

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Scissor-tailed Fly Catcher
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Here's a Fawn-breasted Brilliant (great name for a less than spectacular hummer)

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Pterodactyl...

Sorry, I mean Brown Pelican

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Palm Warbler

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White-crowned Sparrow

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Scarlet Macaw

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Mediterranean Gull
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Green Breasted Mango

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Mountain Bluebird
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Starry Flounder. Oops, wrong forum ;)

Bald Eagle

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Eastern Kingbird

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herper79 wrote:Mountain Bluebird
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I'm not the best on birds, but I'm pretty sure those are Western Bluebirds.

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I think you're right. I need a book lol
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herper79 wrote:I think you're right. I need a book lol
He's right. I wasn't going to say anything, but the thread just hit a snag out here with K... we only have Killdeer that starts with K in the Bay Area. Maybe some one has a Kentucky Warbler to post :roll:
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Kalahari Scrub-robin
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Snowy Egret

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Eastern Bluebird

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Blue Bunting

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Black Oystercatcher
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Orange-crowned Warbler

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Wood Stork(s)

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