The most recent "amusing" bird mis-ID I've seen was a Discovery 
Channel program which included a segment on Macaws. The program 
was talking about the threats to Scarlet Macaws but showed video of 
Red-and-Green Macaws at a clay lick. The other parrot species at the lick 
indicated it was probably filmed in Peru. Then, suddenly, we WERE 
looking at Scarlet Macaws -- flying into some trees at what looked like 
Carara National Park in Costa Rica -- and then again, they morphed into 
Red-and-green Macaws once they reached the branches and started 
preening each other. This flipping between the two (similar but not 
identical) species, as well as sites with different background birds, went 
on for about 20 minutes. To a birder it was pretty disconcerting!

Particularly bad when the credits list various biologists as technical 
experts. Guess they really never saw the finished product!

Gail Mackiernan
Colesville, MD



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