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Recent content by RayMurray

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    Olympic Birding List

    Black Skimmer feeding in background to rowing medal ceremonies. Ray
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    Olympic Birding List

    Also lots of Neotropical Cormorants at sailing - flocks of them. Also some terns there - not a clue. Think I have an ID of the rugby hirundine - Brown-chested Martin ?? - screen-grab attached. I'll look forward to finding a Burrowing Owl - doubtless clobbered by a golf ball! Ray
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    Olympic Birding List

    I know we're not all out there in the field - some of us are stuck indoors watching the Olympics on TV. So why not combine both? My list so far is: Snowy Egret at the rowing. Southern Lapwing at the Rugby (even discussed by the commentators!) Some hirundine at the Rugby - but just blurs...
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    Birds of Peru, Schulenberg, et al. Rev. Ed. 2010, Quick Index

    Here's an Excel Trip List I've made to deal with the taxonomic sequence and the issues caused by Schulenberg et al. not using the IOC sequence for the plates. Hope it helps when you do your daily diary. Should be self explanatory. Ray
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    Which wheatear? Turkey.

    Immature Black-eared - subsp. mealnoleuca - older than 1st-winter but not adult
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    Which sparrow ? Sweden

    If you're puzzled about the name - in a village on the shore of Lake Maleren I know well, to the west of Stockholm, Tree Sparrows nest under the roofs of many houses. They are also the urban sparrow in eastern Asia.
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    Gull, St Abbs, Scotland

    Adult Lesser Black-backed R
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    Willow Warbler or Chiffchaff.

    Juv Willow and adult Chiff in heavy moult. R.
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    Do people still use a birding journal or is there a digital option?

    BirdTrack is fairly straightforward - you have to define a site using a Google Maps link, Once that site is in your system you can add records as 'casual' or a 'list' - it opens to a list that you either tick or proved a count. Each new site needs defining. You can download your records at any...
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    Common or Lesser Whitethroat? (France)

    Common Whitethroat pale legs - rufous fringes to tertials - eye ring. Head patter Lesser-like though - but clearly Common.
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    UK, Devon. Coal Tit with Melanism ?

    Here is another - taken also in January - the ringers reckoned that the outer contour feathers had been lost revealing the black, fluffier insulating feathering underneath
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    Black kite or Marsh harrier

    Buzzard - no sign of a Rough-legged
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    Birding Peru

    We are currently looking at options for the Cusco - Manu part of our trip. The company we are considering is "Peru Birding Tours", ran by a fellow called Omar Diaz. They offer more days for less cost than some competitors. So how is that possible. The only posted trip reports are all...
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    Jaisalmer birds

    Surely a Tawny Eagle - the vulture would have a white tail.
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    Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata)

    eastern Spotted Flycatchers I came upon this bird - image attached - in the mountains above Kyrenia in North Cyprus in October. It was so unlike the Spot Flys seen in western Europe that I was flummoxed for a while. I gather that it may well be a neumanni, the eastern race that is...
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