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Actually I think it's a very color warped version of the plate for Great Crested Flycatcher. The tail feathers and pose are identical, but I have no clue how on earth it ended up so discolored looking when the rest of the illustrations came out perfectly recognizable.
http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?view=entry;cc=audimg;entryid=x-aud0129
--- On Tue, 4/26/11, John Edwards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: John Edwards <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [Ohio-birds] Google Doodle Mystery Bird
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Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2011, 11:00 PM
My opinion is that the blue-throated bird on today's Google Doodle exists only in the mind of the Google Doodler. He may be purposely taking after John James Audubon, who they say often stretched the truth. See the accompanying link about the so-called Carbonated Swamp-Warbler.
http://sibleyguides.blogspot.com/2008/03/audubons-mysteries-carbonated-swamp.html
By the way, if you really want to confuse your fellow birders, start calling birds by the names Audubon originally used. You can find all 435 paintings of "The Birds of America" with their names here.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/User:Mturtle/The_Birds_of_America
Sure are a lot of Prairie Starlings around!
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