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Most misidentified birds in your area
It probably makes a difference if people are doing the list in the field with an app (or making proper notes in a notebook) or if they try to compile the list later on from memory. The latter is where the mistakes are more likely to slip in.- Andrew Whitehouse
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- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Most misidentified birds in your area
Woodpigeon is an interesting one. Around my way, they're generally extremely common and one of the first birds I see if I go birding. But at this time of year (November - December) they actually become quite scarce and, although there are a few around, it's easy to miss them. For example, I've...- Andrew Whitehouse
- Post #37
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Most misidentified birds in your area
Strangely enough, I saw a Black-throated Diver at Girdle Ness today - my first for a couple of years. Mark had some Twite as well, so it was a good day for some local misidentification specialities.- Andrew Whitehouse
- Post #32
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Most misidentified birds in your area
When I lived in Islay and worked at the Wildlife Information Centre, visitors would regularly report small parties of Corncrakes wandering about along the roads, at around the same time of year as lots of juvenile Pheasants were about.- Andrew Whitehouse
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- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Most misidentified birds in your area
Think most of your Ebird LBB records during the winter come from November 2015, when at least a couple seem to have been around. One of my records is from then as well. I thought about adding skuas, but agree that this is a more generally difficult group without locally specific elements. I...- Andrew Whitehouse
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- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Most misidentified birds in your area
People obviously misidentify birds sometimes and there are some well-known species pairs or groups that are pretty hard to get right. My interest in this thread is not necessarily in general cases of hard identifications but in locally specific errors that regularly occur in particular places or...- Andrew Whitehouse
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