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    Identification needed...South African bird

    I think you're right....I just looked up images of the juvenile L B E on google, I think you are spot on. The Swallow tailed one is similar, but I reckon you are right. Thanks to both.
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    Identification needed...South African bird

    Hello, I thought of this but The Little Bee Eater should have a black bib above the cinnamon-coloured underparts and the yellow throat????
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    South African Plover, id reqd. please

    Hello, can anybody tell me what is this (attached) bird that I photographed 2 weeks ago in the West Coast Nature Reserve, between Cape Town and Langebaan, Western Cape Province? The closest I can come up with is a Kittlitz's Plover, or maybe a Snowy Plover....But I'm far from sure re either...
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    Other South African bird....id requested?

    Hello, can anybody tell me what is this (attached) bird that I photographed 2 weeks ago in Pillansberg Nature Reserve, about 2 HRS from Pretoria in Gauteng Province (South Africa)? My best guess is a Southern Grey Headed Sparrow. Thanks, Andy
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    Identification needed...South African bird

    Hello, can anybody tell me what is this (attached) bird that I photographed 2 weeks ago in Pillansberg Nature Reserve, about 2 HRS from Pretoria in Gauteng Province (South Africa). From my book I think it might be an Olive Bush Shrike, although the bill looks a bit to thin, and the eye stripe a...
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    Somerset Birding

    I have a leser spotted woodpecker in my back garden! (Portishead BS20, North Somerset, up around the top of the hill). We have some very large mature trees, oak, ash etc.....and I have feeders on them. The woodpecker really likes my nut-feeder. I've had a green woodpecker before, and a greater...
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    Help id'ing gull. Somerset, UK

    What could these gulls be? I'm not good at identifying gulls, even with the aid of the RSPB website: At Nailsea Reserve a week or so ago, were a few Little Gulls. Also some very similar size, similar-looking gulls, also with the classic wintertime black "ear-patch" of the Little...
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    Somerset Birding

    REPLY TO OBM ABOVE: HELP no longer needed with White Egret ID Somerset levels please. Looking NORTH on Shapwick Heath 100 metres east of the footbridge, about 200 metres west of the car park where you could walk east to Ham Wall, a large white Grey Heron shaped Egret. Larger than a Little...
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    Somerset Birding

    This morning 2 purple Sandpipers at Battery Point Portishead, on the rocks by the lighthouse at high tide. This is the first time I have seen this sepcies, they are lovely birds
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    Somerset Birding

    Re the above....Sorry, I've just been advised to check, and actually it wasn't a mandarin but a Drake Wood Duck. Stil, Ive never seen one of them wild in the UK either.
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    Somerset Birding

    What could these gulls be? I'm not good at identifying gulls, even with the aid of the RSPB website: At Nailsea Reserve today were a few Little Gulls. Also some very similar size, similar-looking gulls, also with the classic wintertime black "ear-patch" of the Little Gull.....However, whilst the...
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    Somerset Birding

    Anyone seen any sign of waxwings in the Bristol or North Somerset area this winter?
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    Can u help identify?

    Friends I ws up in Llanberris pass last week, rock-climbing with a mate. We disturbed a bird that flew off with a strange call....sort of staccato 'clack, clack, clack' not like an ordinary bird call at all. Only glimpsed it as it flew off as I was trying to stay on the rock face...It appeared...
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    Southern African Forum

    Hello, I'd just like to say how pleasing it is to have a South African forum. Last year I went to SA for the very first time, and stayed with relatioves whom I'd never met before. Apart from them being all wonderful people, I was so impressed by the birdlife. When I was in Pretoria I was amazed...
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    Somerset Birding

    Thanks for the above, I'd gone at low-tide, I didn't realise that high tide is the best time. Are they a particularly shy bird?
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