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Birds are challenging.  Some don't always look like their field guide pictures. Individual birds frequently vary a little or a lot from the norm.  Photographs capture one angle at a time.  Artists can make mistakes.  Light arrives at different angles or hardly at all.  Video is another tool for identifying birds.  Video clips can help prepare us for field encounters.  Video conveys a bird’s activity level, how it forages for food, and how it eludes or shows interest in the observer.  In some video clips, you see the bird from every angle and you even hear it call or sing.


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WATCH 720p at IBC		or SAVE video clips		Click pictures to WATCH high-definition (720p) video clips at the Internet Bird Collection. or Right-Click (PCs) or Control-Click (Macs) bird names to SAVE mp4 video clips (with h264 480 x 272 dimensions)

	Anna's Hummingbird video of female type visiting feeder in Arizona USA on 2009-m07-29
	Greater Pewee video of adult looking around then flying in Arizona USA on 2009-m07-30
	Chihuahuan Raven video of immature calling while adult preens in Arizona USA on 2009-m07-29

Rare Pair seen 35 miles SW of Corpus Christi, Texas, at least 1000 feet offshore

Identifying an Eastern Chipmunk is easy,

but a fledgling Eastern Phoebe isn't

I was filming the phoebe when the chipmunk walked into the view.

Another hawk, again not a Zone-tailed, but instead a Harlan's Red-tailed Hawk...

an immature at Mitchell Lake, San Antonio, TX

ID'd from video recorded hours after the event (morning of 29 November 2008)

not a Zone-tailed Hawk, not a Red-tail, and not even a Harlan's Red-tail...

Instead, it was an immature White-tailed Hawk at Mitchell Lake, San Antonio, TX

ID'd by MMS from video shot 3 days earlier (3 May 2008) during the Audubon Sanctuary's Bird-a-thon!

The 4th really southern flycatcher reported for Texas in 3 months

Piratic Flycatcher at a Pollywog Pond mulberry tree (near Corpus Christi)

Discovered on 3 May 2008 by Gene Blacklock just in time for Sunday crowds

Sandia Crest, New Mexico, Elevation 10,678 feet, Temperature 10°F, Wind Chill -39°F

Rosy-Finches around the Crest House Gift Shop and Restaurant on 8 January 2008

one HDV 1080p clip slowed to 1/10 speed - all others resized to 640 x 480p (DV resolution)

Some rare and uncommon swimmers for central Texas

Black Scoter, Common Goldeneye, Horned Grebe, and an odd Eared Grebe

Lake Pflugerville sketched onto a Google Earth image of NE Austin

Knocked out of the sky by Tropical Storm Erin?

Long-tailed Jaeger taped 18 August 2007 near San Antonio, Texas

Interrupted (perhaps) on its flight from the Arctic to high seas off of South America?

Discovered by Martin Reid on 17 August 2007 at Braunig Lake in Bexar County, Texas

66 samples of Iridescence

HUMMINGBIRDS IN SLOW MOTION

27 species from California, Texas, Louisiana, México, and Guatemala

Birds showing various degrees of head molt

FEBRUARY FORSTER'S TERNS

Note the dark carpal bar on some

Striking plumage in a young hawk

THREE CLIPS OF A SINGLE HARRIS'S HAWK

Full frames using Flash

28 Texas rarities from all parts of the state since March 2002

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