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Thread #147033   Message #3405989
Posted By: Genie
17-Sep-12 - 03:25 AM
Thread Name: BS: Bird identification question
Subject: BS: Bird identification question
Do western meadowlarks ever have a cream-colored speckled breast? Or is there another bird about the same size, with a medium-long pointy beak, that hangs out in the Pacific NW of the US?

There was a bird like this in the tree above me in Portland, Oregon, today, and I could see it mostly from underneath and a little from the side.   It was about the size of a robin - maybe slightly larger - definitely with a spotted/speckled pale yellow or cream-colored breast and a beak much like the western meadowlark's or maybe slightly longer - and I'm pretty sure the back and head were not brightly colored either, though I could not see the back very well. I'd say the head was sort of brown and speckled too.

Anyone have a clue what bird this might have been? It was quite pretty, though not at all flashy.

Genie