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  1. François Doyen

    Brabant Netherlands - Tree Pipit or Meadow Pipit...?

    It's not a pipit but a Yellowhammer
  2. François Doyen

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    looking at picture the names makes much more sense. My favourite change by far would be Western for Starry night.
  3. François Doyen

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    no I can't, based on your picture I see two with red on their back and the ones that looks the most like a starry night is the only one with a grey belly or maybe the one with a brownish back
  4. François Doyen

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    Maybe if people claiming it's a problem would bring some evidence that it actually is there wouldn't get so many people against it. Can't really prove something doesn't exist. Without evidence of it, changing ALL the eponyms will always feel like people pushing their own preference on everybody...
  5. François Doyen

    North Macedonia - Water or Tawny Pipit?

    Bill seems way too small/thin for any tawny pipit
  6. François Doyen

    eBird and Birding on the move

    Have you tried using observation.org ?
  7. François Doyen

    2016 - World Yearlist Record Attempt

    Dartford Warbler & Cirl Bunting are vagrant too. Fulmar is also more or less impossible Don't know what the situation is with Pigmy Owl in the Netherlands (no new from Belgium either) Very few Ring Ouzel and House Martin yet. (even blackcap might not be easy. I'm still waiting for my first but...
  8. François Doyen

    2016 - World Yearlist Record Attempt

    Well you can hide your sightings either just the exact localisation or hide them completely from normal users but the precise record is still there for conservation. Some species are automatically hidden (like Fox in Belgium). Hunters know about the birds too. And if it's an area you visit...
  9. François Doyen

    2016 - World Yearlist Record Attempt

    Can you put the exact tree, reedbed, field for every sightings like in Observado/Waarneming or just a list of sightings made at one single place? Because at local level it might be more important to know where exactly in a marsh have you heard a bluethroat than knowing you've seen 2 woodpigeon...
  10. François Doyen

    Best Spring Migration Places in Europe

    Breskens is a great spot with S/E wind. There are some great pictures of migrating birds here : http://www.pbase.com/thomasluiten/vogels_op_trek__birds_on_migration
  11. François Doyen

    Eagle Owl sites in Belgium

    If the Olloy spot is the same as 5 years ago then it's a good and easy spot! Nice area too with plenty of red-backed shrikes, black stork,...
  12. François Doyen

    Hazel Hen in Ardennes?

    There are probably a few left but it's more or less impossible to see. Many Belgian birders have never seen one. For woodpecker August isn't really the best time of year. Black Woodpecker are present everywhere and have lage territories and often fly across open space between forest (or over...
  13. François Doyen

    White wagtail? West Yorkshire, today

    I'd certainly not make it a pied wagtail here in Belgium with that rump
  14. François Doyen

    'Dead cert' species within 5 minutes of leaving your house

    Here in Belgium at the moment : Common Buzzard, Kestrel, Black-headed, common, lesser black-backed & Herring gull, Woodpigeon, Eurasian collared dove, Green & greater spotted woodpecker, Wren, dunnock, robin, blackbird, goldcrest, blue & great tit, Jay, Jackdaw, carrion crow, rook, magpie...
  15. François Doyen

    Wigeon

    It's impossible to ID it with certainty with this single picture lacking key criteria while others could just be artefact. The bird could be Eurasian, American, hybrid between the 2 or with Chiloe. Even if you find after reading an article that 1st w American wigeon is the best match that is...
  16. François Doyen

    Pipit spp, Worlds End , Wales ,UK , in May

    I think we just need to study the food British and Icelandic meadow pipit like the most and the possible small difference might prove and explain the difference in supercillium? :)
  17. François Doyen

    Examples for explaining bird’s sexual selection by Demand-raising-beauty Theory

    If they can't see that Zooplankton then for the female it indeed must look the same as the crest! ;)
  18. François Doyen

    Baikal Teal, Diksmuide, West Flanders

    The site is not open to the public but there's an hide on the south side of the reservoir. https://www.google.be/maps/@50.984136,2.83312,3a,75y,28.29h,67.27t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s0d-7mQzlte-YqIWtSEhNPw!2e0?hl=fr Sadly you can't see the whole site from the hide and the bird seems to be most of...
  19. François Doyen

    Birding around Liege

    The wallcreeper hasn't been found at all this weekend. :(
  20. François Doyen

    Examples for explaining bird’s sexual selection by Demand-raising-beauty Theory

    Yes I've understood that but why do goldeneye micmic these snow island? Do they breed on them?
  21. François Doyen

    Examples for explaining bird’s sexual selection by Demand-raising-beauty Theory

    Why would common goldeneye micmic snow island? What is the link between snow island and goldeneye?
  22. François Doyen

    Birding around Liege

    a Wallcreeper is in Liege at the moment. It spend the whole winter here. It was reported by non birder earlier but wasn't found by birders. It was then reported again today and finally found 800m from the building where it was reported! Here's the spot where it was found by birders ...
  23. François Doyen

    Birding around Liege

    I just looked at the woodpecker sightings near Liege. map of black woodpecker This area just south of Liege seems very good for it There's also some sigthings of middle spotted woodpecker there but they don't seens numerous there (most sightings come from feeders in winter) Both species...
  24. François Doyen

    Snowy Owl - Get ready Belgium

    Considering what happen in North America and the spot where this bird was found there's little doubt it came on a ship from North America. It already happened during the winter 2001-2002 when several snowy owl arrived in Europe (including Belgium) onboard ships from North America!
  25. François Doyen

    New year in Belgium and Netherlands - hoping to see Geese spectacle

    They're widespread in Belgium but they often have large territories and are usually not easy to find. Never looked for them in that part of Belgium so I don't know what are the best spot for them. You can check the map of the latest black woodpecker sightings and click on the red square to see...
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