A Townsend's Solitaire drinking

A Townsend's Solitaire drinking in Texas. These are long-tailed gray birds of the high western mountains, descending in the winter to lower elevations where they feed almost exclusively on juniper berries. Look out for their white eye ring, white outer tail feathers and buffy wing patch.

Video recorded by Timothy Barksdale/Macaulay Library/http://macaulaylibrary.org/video/402422.

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