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  1. Farnboro John

    Most misidentified birds in your area

    Indeed but conversely, I am aware there are guides who not only keep their stakeouts quiet but specifically ask their clients to do the same, so absence of data from some places may not be the same as absence of birds..... If a place is a top hotspot there must be a reason for that and it may...
  2. Farnboro John

    Most misidentified birds in your area

    I believe what you say but just for the record, do the guides contribute to ebird or are foreign tourists being guided (or not) the only source of data? John
  3. Farnboro John

    Most misidentified birds in your area

    Concur, though if you can't specifically remember the bird (and I mean you have to be able to conjure the sighting with your mind's eye) you shouldn't list it. John
  4. Farnboro John

    Most misidentified birds in your area

    Depends where you go, hard to miss Pheasant at Hillswick I'm afraid. John
  5. Farnboro John

    Most misidentified birds in your area

    You might think so.... the trouble is that a Magpie is not just a vagrant but a big bird that British birders know well and are accustomed to semi-ignoring. That means that as they drive past a Lerwick garden and see a flash of black and white out of the corner of their eye they think "Magpie!"...
  6. Farnboro John

    Most misidentified birds in your area

    The Shetland Magpie story is slightly different from most of those as it involves experienced birders (and some Shetlanders) keen to add a vagrant Magpie - that they know doesn't occur on Shetland - to their Shetland lists. Most of us, including me, have now done so, but it did involve twitching...
  7. Farnboro John

    Most misidentified birds in your area

    Great Black-backed Gulls round here: reported over many years far more than they actually occur. Plenty of Lessers in different shades of back! John
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