In NJ I’v seen birds that look like Canadian geese with shorter necks. What are they?
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There are many subspecies of Canadian geese.  The Greater or Lesser Canadian Goose are two I am familiar with.  The Lesser are more robust and have a shorter neck.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Goose
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I was right! It's a FLICKER !\n\nIt's a kind of woodpecker, also known as the yellowhammer.\n\nThat was really a good description.\n\nI guessed flicker, then I checked out your pic!\n\nCOOL!\n\n;-)
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It looks the same on the east coast as it would anywhere else.\n\nReally, it looks like a prairie dog.\n\nhttp://www.hempology.com/textbook/images/pics/gopher.jpg
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Its a marsh bird, in the rail family rallidae, people often mistake it for a duck as it is able to swim like a duck (duck family is anseridae). Coots lack webbing  but instead they have lobed toes which helps them padle along. http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/American_Coot_dtl.html
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Could be bullfinches, except that bullfinches have red breasts as well. Not sure if they have duller winter plumage, but that could explain the difference.\n\nDo they look anything like this?\nhttp://www.birdsofbritain.co.uk/bird-guide/bullfinch.htm
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The Pink-footed Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus) is a goose breeding in Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard. It winters in nortwest Europe, especially Great Britain. The Svalbard-population winters in Belgium, The Nederlands and Denmark.\n\nIt is closely related to the Bean Goose (Anser fabalis). The Pink-footed Goose has the bill short, bright pink in the middle, and the feet also pink, which is diagnostic.\n\nThe upper wing-coverts are nearly of the same bluish-grey as in the Greylag Goose.
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No.  You have to eat the goose.  The WHOLE goose.  And only a Canadian one will do.  Feathers too!
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There are several.\nhttp://birding.about.com/library/weekly/aa060797.htm
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Here is a site that may help you. See if the pic of the grouse eggs matches your description.\n\nhttp://www.ronausting.com/birds/rgrouse.html
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Xantus's Hummingbird\nZone-tailed Hawk\nBonaparte's Gull\nCrested Caracara\nDunlin
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Probably great-tailed grackles. They're like huge blackbirds, very noisy and aggressive. Here's a photo and a link to their distribution map. I usually see them when I'm in Arizona in the spring.
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There's a good bird silhouettes picture with 10 or more birds included at:\nhttp://www.birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds/Birding123/IdentifyingBirds/idSilhouette.html
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That sounds like a smart ass anwser to me. Actually that was what I would have put. It's Canadian Goose. Named for the country of Canada.
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True, they don't exactly have a "National" symbol like the US, but here are animals Native to Ireland, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irish_Mammals, http://www.irelandseye.com/aarticles/travel/nature/index.shtm.
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Yes they do. Look out below.\n\n*edit* I grew up in Wyoming along a migration root for Canadian Geese. There were some species that would winter in our lakes as well so we had geese year round.\n\nI can tell you that they poop in flight because through the years many of my friends and myself had our cars dive bombed while driving. A few had the misfortune to get hit themselves.\n\nIt doesn't hurt, goose poopie is soft, like a grey green pudding. It's just embarassing, especially when it's 10 degrees outside and it literally becomes a "steaming pile" on your head.\n\nElaborate enough for ya?
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Its called "Cigua Palmera", Its a cute little bird that goes around in palms.
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because there are more geese on that side