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Recent content by Ernest Garcia

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    Bobolink-like birds in upper Austria

    This seems the best fit to the 'description'. Size is often hard to judge.
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    Blackcap and garden warbler

    In the late 1970s I spent three years studying Blackcaps and Garden Warblers, in particular their interspecific territoriality. I never found the territorial songs hard to distinguish. To quote the booklet on these species that I wrote for Shire publications in 1989, "Blackcap songs usually...
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    Any point putting out niger seed?

    My niger feeder was only visited by occasional Goldfinches this winter but for the past three weeks it has attracted a succession of Lesser Redpolls, Siskins and a few Goldfinches every day. Up to ten birds are present at a time. The location is Surrey, England.
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    New boy living in Spain.

    You don't say whereabouts you live in Spain but I can assure you that the Birdlife available there is highly varied and of course figures numerous species that you wouldn't see in Britain (the opposite also applies of course). You do need to get out and about to see a large diversity but if its...
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    Current fuss in North America about eponymous English bird names

    I'd say the problem with Portuguese names is not the eponyms but their idiosyncracy. Quite a few species names give no idea of the wider relationships of the bird in question. For example, and just among storm-petrels, we have Casquilho, Calca-mar, Alma-de-mestre and Roquinho , for Wilson's...
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    House Bunting breeds in Spain

    The Aves Estrecho Gibraltar Whatsapp group reports the successful nesting of the House Bunting at Algeciras, Cádiz, Spain; the town opposite Gibraltar as you may know. A pair was seen feeding a recently fledged juvenile on Friday 8th and Saturday 9th. This is the first known instance of nesting...
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    Gibraltar Bird Report 2022

    Now available online and free to view on the Gibraltar Ornithological and Natural History Society website (www.gonhs.org). As usual it features a Systematic List, Tables of migrating raptor daily counts, and a Ringing Report.
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    Killer whales in Strait of Gibraltar

    I understand that the Orcas take objection to sailing yachts not the launches and catamarans used by whale watchers. The orcas quite seldom come near Gibraltar itself but instead haunt the tarifa area, where the tuna nets are.
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    Slender-billed Gull influx into NW Iberia

    The Slender-billed Gull is rarely reported in Iberia away from its few breeding colonies in Andalucía and the Levant and the nearby coasts. It was a rarities committee bird in Portugal until 2008 but has since become a frequent presence in coastal Algarve. There are few published records from...
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    Putative Baltic Gull Gibraltar

    Two photos of an adult Lesser Black-backed Gull photographed at Europa Point, Gibraltar, on Thursday 16 February 2023. I'd appreciate any comments from larophiles regarding whether it can be regarded as a dark intermedius or as a nominate race, Baltic Gull. For interest, I also include a photo...
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    Mystery raptor, Montagu Harrier..?

    From the description pf appearance and behaviour I would say that they were probably Common Buzzards, members of a species in which there is considerable variation in size (between sexes) and plumage.
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    Bucket list Recommendations required !

    The London Wetland Centre meets all your mobility requirements. In winter it is a good site for Bitterns and, usually, Redwings, and much more besides.
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    Scottish coastal sighting

    This is a Dunnock. Dunnocks are characteristic of dense scrub, including Sea Buckthorn stands such as those at Aberlady
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    GIBRALTAR BIRD REPORT 2021

    This is now available online at www.gonhs.org , the website of the Gibraltar Ornithological and Natural History Society. The Report and its predecessors are free to view. The 2021 Report includes accounts of three 2021 additions to the Gibraltar List (Yellow-rumped Warbler, Iberian Magpie and...
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    Gibraltar in spring (but not migration)

    Have a look at the website of the Gibraltar Ornithological and Natural History Society (www.gonhs.org), which has plenty of current and past information on birds, including free-to-access back numbers of the Gibraltar Bird Report (which I edit) and species lists for other fauna and flora. There...
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