Just a question

[Lisa Carp]

I do not know if it's appropriate to put this here but it does make you think!

NY Times Crossword Puzzle today.

5 letters-ground dwelling songbird.

Hubby & I did not get the answer right.

Lisa Carp

Superior

[Charles Hundertmark]

Junco comes to mind.

Chuck Hundertmark

Lafayette

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[Ira Sanders]

I suppose Robin was the wrong answer. 

Ira Sanders

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[Charles Hundertmark]

Raises an interesting question about the meaning of "ground-dwelling". It occurred to me after suggesting “junco” that robins frequently feed on the ground and in that sense might be considered “ground-dwelling.” When I was thinking of possible answers, I was thinking in terms of ground-nesters, but “dwelling” could have different meanings. 

Chuck Hundertmark

[Richard Trinkner]

Keep in mind that this is the NY Times crossword, not the Sibley crossword. :-)  Expect some imperfections when it comes to avian clues.

I know the answer and do typically see this bird on the ground. In fact, I'm not sure I've ever seen it off the ground when not in flight. I've seen it nesting on the ground in the Colorado tundra.

Richard Trinkner

Boulder

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[DuWayne Worthington]

I would vote for quail then.

DuWayne Worthington

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[Joe Kipper]

Pipit?

Joe Kipper,

Fort Collins

[William H Kaempfer]

Joe, I think you’ve got it (given Richard’s clue).

 

Lisa, what fun.

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[Doug]

Sorry. Forgot to sign.

Plover?

Doug Schoch, Centennial, Arapahoe County

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Pipit?

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[Doug]

Plover?

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Pipit?

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[Doug]

Not sure why I thought it said 6, but clearly not plover...

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[Lisa Carp]

Yes Joe, pipit it is!

Next time they are out at Lagerman Res I'm going to give them a piece of my mind

& tell them to get in a tree!

L.

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[Joe Roller]

The puzzle was in the SUNDAY, Sept 13, New York Times, not todays.

The "cross clue" is "dangerous fly" and the 4th letter of that fly is the last letter

of the bird's name.

What do you think the fly's name is?

Joe Roller, Denver

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[Sebastian Patti]

tsetse

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Sebastian T. Patti
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[Joe Roller]

Yes!

Joe Roller

[Sebastian Patti]

Or if this were Jeopardy!  . . . What is tsetse????

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[sm...@q.com]

I think it is an abbreviated giggle or more refined chortle…

 

Cheers,

Steve Stachowiak

Highlands Ranch, CO

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[Elena Holly Klaver]

Well, on the subject of puzzle questions and other not-quite-cobirds topics, I was part of an educational webinar on heavy equipment and machinery for interpreters, and there was a picture of a big truck with a crane, and a picture of a great blue heron.  As in English, the words in Spanish for a metal crane and the bird are the same, but I had to let the webinar teacher know that he wasn’t showing a picture of a crane, not Antigone canadensis.  He said he searched for images of cranes, and that was what he found 🙄

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 (Arapaho), Cheyenne y Ute, según el 1851 Tratado de Fort Laramie, y que el estado de Colorado al este de las Montañas Rocosas es territorio de muchos pueblos indígenas. 

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[Karl Stecher Jr.]

A tree pipit (which I have seen on Attu) apparently nests on the ground, but sings from low branches of a tree!

 

Karl Stecher

Aurora/Arapahoe

 

 

 

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[Ann Reeves]

Any letters?  Song bird is throwing me off! 

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[Erik Hendrickson]

With a strange contortion, I can link pipit with a potential predator - black-footed ferret?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meeteetse,_Wyoming