Originally posted by ramiot Pictures taken yesterday...
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Cardinal à poitrine rose femelle.
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#3 Chardonneret jaune.
#4 Le Pic flamboyant
5 Bernache du Canada ou Outarde.
Translation:
1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak female
Pheucticus ludovicianus
2 Chipping sparrow
Spizella passerina
3 American Goldfinch
Spinus tristis
4 Northern Flicker
Colaptes auratus
5 Canada Goose
Branta canadensis
I never knew until now that, in Quebec, Canada Goose is called outarde, which, in France, refers to bustard (Otidae). Just another example of an Old World name applied to an unrelated species in the New World, e.g., buzzard, hawk, warbler, bunting, sparrow, blackbird, oriole.