Best For Birds

I was watching an episode of The Most Extreme the other day, and I remember seeing a cute little black bird they were talking about. I don’t know the name of it though.
The episode was 72, Bodysnatchers, and it was in the section with the cuckoo, because the way they saved these birds from near extinction (there were only five at the time scientists came in) was by putting their eggs in other birds’ nests. I think the bird lived in New Zealand.

Does anybody know what the name of the bird is? (A picture link would help, seeing as I remember what it looked like.)

Was it the chathem island black robin.

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Scott Leder
http://www.articlesbase.com/sports-and-fitness-articles/sports-software-the-lesserknown-benefits-of-online-registration-for-organizers-and-participants-707702.html

i live in israel , and just before winter comes to our area we have a large bird migration from europ or russia i think , and it’s a time when allot of birds stop to rest on my big Ficus tree before they cross the border to sinay peninsula and to africa.
this year a unike bird hes honored me with her presence with a loud twitt just like a dog barking or a angry duck .. i add the link to the video i took …
tnx in advance

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kXdbhXDx1I

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i live in israel , and just before winter comes to our area we have a large bird migration from europ or russia i think , and it’s a time when allot of birds stop to rest on my big Ficus tree before they cross the border to sinay peninsula and to africa.
this year a unike bird hes honored me with her presence with a loud twitt just like a dog barking or a angry duck .. i add the link to the video i took …
tnx in advance

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kXdbhXDx1I

I’m afraid that, living in England, I don’t know much about the birds of Israel, however from your video I would say that the birds in your tree (I assume those we can hear are the ones we see flying at the end of your video) are possibly some kind of crow - their flight profile is very similar to that of the fan tailed raven, which I know are present in Israel.

I’ve included a link to Wikipedia’s page on Israeli birds.

what do you think this bird species is:
http://www.albury.net.au/~tim/ChEbird1.JPG

Regent Honeyeater

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Simplest way is to dye the wing feathers , with a vegetable dye(but this has to be done every 4-6 months)or with a Felt tip marker Pen.

I also use what are known as split rings , these can be bought in various colors and can be applied quite easily by an experienced person.

I f you are not sure , then go for dyeing.it is much easier and safer but do not buy toxic dyes.

what bird lives in upper Sonoran Desertscrub, it is small like a verdin, kinda long tail, makes a raspy phhhhsssssss sound?
i didnt get the best look at it, but it was gray and had a lighter underbelly, i didnt get to see much else. im thinking the black gnatcatcher is the one though
i mean the black-tailed gnatcathcer

It could be a gnatcatcher, what color was it?
Except for the long tail, it might be a kinglet.
Try this site to listen to vocalizations of the gnatcatcher to see if it was what you heard:

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Blue-gray_Gnatcatcher/id

(The black-tailed gnatcatcher is also a Sonoran species-but the bird site didn’t have an example of their call).

Lots of these birds here in Maryland
The birds are the size of a sparrow. Soft grey and a smooth feathered bird (it is not a sparrow that has rougher feathers) kind of dove colored. On its eyes are 2 black stripes that are horizontal. Any ideas please?

That’s a little vague, the only one I can think of that’s smooth grey is a dark eyed junco, but cedar waxwings match the eyestripes more closely.

I suppose you only saw it in your yard or something, not particularly upclose, some other colors (breast color, head color), song description, foot shape, tail shape, behavior etc can give hints.

If the stripe is not that particularly prominent and the tail is long and thin with white that bobs up and down all the time, perhaps a mockingbird?

google all those up and comment if I got it or ya have more info.