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What's this bird?
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- Lemon Quarter
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What's this bird?
Can anyone help me identify the following bird - I've looked in a fairly big bird book, and didn't find anything that seemed like it.
I saw this bird perching on fence-posts in open farmland, occasionally popping down to the ground for a minute or so, and then back to the fence-post. It wasn't particularly skittish, and I got within about 50 metres of it before it flew a bit further away. It was a solitary bird.
Grey/pink colouration seemed very similar to nuthatch markings, though it was a neater and more streamlined bird than a nuthatch. It had a distinctive "bandit" black mask on its face and a thin neat beak. It was about the size of a wagtail (maybe a bit thinner).
Any thoughts/ideas/suggestions?
I saw this bird perching on fence-posts in open farmland, occasionally popping down to the ground for a minute or so, and then back to the fence-post. It wasn't particularly skittish, and I got within about 50 metres of it before it flew a bit further away. It was a solitary bird.
Grey/pink colouration seemed very similar to nuthatch markings, though it was a neater and more streamlined bird than a nuthatch. It had a distinctive "bandit" black mask on its face and a thin neat beak. It was about the size of a wagtail (maybe a bit thinner).
Any thoughts/ideas/suggestions?
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Re: What's this bird?
zico wrote:Can anyone help me identify the following bird - I've looked in a fairly big bird book, and didn't find anything that seemed like it.
I saw this bird perching on fence-posts in open farmland, occasionally popping down to the ground for a minute or so, and then back to the fence-post. It wasn't particularly skittish, and I got within about 50 metres of it before it flew a bit further away. It was a solitary bird.
Grey/pink colouration seemed very similar to nuthatch markings, though it was a neater and more streamlined bird than a nuthatch. It had a distinctive "bandit" black mask on its face and a thin neat beak. It was about the size of a wagtail (maybe a bit thinner).
Any thoughts/ideas/suggestions?
A red backed shrike perhaps ?
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Re: What's this bird?
I was thinking it might have been a Nuthatch, given the Grey/Pink colouration mentioned, but you seem to think that it was different to that bird -
Image Source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuthatch
The other one based on the physical description might have been a Wheatear, but the colouration doesn't quite suit as much -
Image Source - https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Northern_Wheatear
Cheers,
Itsallaguess
Image Source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuthatch
The other one based on the physical description might have been a Wheatear, but the colouration doesn't quite suit as much -
Image Source - https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Northern_Wheatear
Cheers,
Itsallaguess
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Re: What's this bird?
Thanks for responses. Yes, it was definitely a wheatear. Your photo looks far more like the bird I saw (right colours) than the wheatear picture in my bird book.
Mike, I've seen a red-backed shrike once at Bempton cliffs, near Flamborough Head in Yorkshire.
Mike, I've seen a red-backed shrike once at Bempton cliffs, near Flamborough Head in Yorkshire.
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Re: What's this bird?
zico wrote:Thanks for responses. Yes, it was definitely a wheatear. Your photo looks far more like the bird I saw (right colours) than the wheatear picture in my bird book.
Mike, I've seen a red-backed shrike once at Bempton cliffs, near Flamborough Head in Yorkshire.
Wheatear is a polite version of the name it was commonly known by pr-victorian era which was whitearse because when it flies off from its perch the white tail feathers are noticeable.
Ps try writing the wordarse in a reply and see where you get?!
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Re: What's this bird?
colin wrote:Ps try writing the wordarse in a reply and see where you get?!
Er, wordarse?
Try Fluffy-Backed Tit-Babbler? Penduline Tit? Or a plain old European Shag?
BJ
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Re: What's this bird?
bungeejumper wrote:colin wrote:Ps try writing the wordarse in a reply and see where you get?!
Er, wordarse?
Try Fluffy-Backed Tit-Babbler? Penduline Tit? Or a plain old European Shag?
BJ
I suspect the word аrse was a reference to [expletive deleted]. But I'd settle for a cormorant.
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Re: What's this bird?
UncleEbenezer wrote:bungeejumper wrote:colin wrote:Ps try writing the wordarse in a reply and see where you get?!
Er, wordarse?
Try Fluffy-Backed Tit-Babbler? Penduline Tit? Or a plain old European Shag?
BJ
I suspect the word аrse was a reference to Pink marshmallows. But I'd settle for a cormorant.
Ok so how come you manged to write [expletive deleted] without it coming out as Pink marshmallows?
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Re: What's this bird?
colin wrote:UncleEbenezer wrote:bungeejumper wrote:Er, wordarse?
Try Fluffy-Backed Tit-Babbler? Penduline Tit? Or a plain old European Shag?
BJ
I suspect the word аrse was a reference to Pink marshmallows. But I'd settle for a cormorant.
Ok so how come you manged to write Pink marshmallows without it coming out as Pink marshmallows?
Because my аrse was to your [expletive deleted] as the nuthatch to the wheatear. They only look the same.
Try translate on Вот подсказка . Then look carefully.
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