[EBB Sightings] Mystery Bird at Children's Fairyland

Google Image Search is pretty unreliable since all it can search for are websites with an image and the desired text on the same page, and it has no way of knowing what's depicted in the image.  If you are looking for photos of a particular bird species, I would start with:

http://mangoverde.com/birdsound/index.html  (use the search box at top or the family list on the left)

or

http://www.flickr.com/groups/birdguide/ (use the species indices part way down the page)

Here are some vetted photos of Saffron Finch from those two sites and another:

http://mangoverde.com/birdsound/spec/spec202-177.html

http://www.flickr.com/groups/birdguide/pool/tags/Sicalis%20flaveola

http://www.arthurgrosset.com/sabirds/saffron%20finch.html

It's a South American species that is popular as a caged bird, so in all likelihood the Lake Merritt bird is an escapee.  Still, an interesting find and nice photos.

Glen Tepke
Oakland


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Hilary Powers 
> Bob Brandriff wrote:
> > Great pictures Hilary.  With the reddish crown, looks like a Saffron
> > Finch to me.
> 
> Yes - a Google image search on "Saffron Finch" gets a lot of pix that 
> look a lot like this little guy - plus what looks like a mislabeled 
> goldfinch and another bird that's all dark red....
> 
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