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    Bali, late May 2011

    ID Confirmation for these 3 please. 1. Yellow-vented Bulbul 2. Scaly-breasted Munia 3. ? Brown Shrike - or is it too late in the year for this?
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    ID Help, Costa Rica

    Many thanks. The illustrations in my field guide show much more buff and much less black on the throat than my photos do, but everything else matches and I'm sure you're right.
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    ID Help, Costa Rica

    Dredging through some (bad) old photos under lockdown. Any ideas on this bird? Seen in hotel garden near to cloud forest, Monteverde, c1,400m a.s.l. in January.
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    NewsMap Lite not working?

    Yes, I've also had this issue for a few days now when viewing on both an iPad (safari) and a Windows 8.1 laptop (Firefox.) Wondered if it might be due to adblockers on the laptop, but I've nothing like that on my iPad.
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    3 from Tobago, poor photos.

    Thanks for the replies. Niels - I cannot be sure the bird was flycatching and Kratter's explanation of a mating display is eminently plausible. The hops/flights were quite "flappy" and with a twist and a flared out tail, and were always the shape of an upside down water-drop. Not sure if any...
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    3 from Tobago, poor photos.

    3 for confirmation / ID from SW Tobago. Apologies for some very blurred images. 1. Is the egret a tricoloured egret? The dark breast is confusing me. My field guide(s) seem only to show side on views. This was in a pond/creek on a golf course, but there were mangroves less than 50 yards away...
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    Woodcock

    Thanks folks, I'll keep trying. The firebreak I'm sitting in is set lower than the surrounding woods so I'm only seeing a slice of sky. I'll try somewhere with more of a panorama - although the precise spot I'm using has been recommended by knowledgable locals.
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    Woodcock

    This is a bird I've never seen And I've been making some effort to do so this year by visiting a wood at dusk which local birders tell me is a good place for them. I have a few questions. Firstly, the wood in question is normally very damp, but we've had little significant rainfall in the...
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    QE2 Reservoir Surrey - Access?

    As an identical question posed in the Surrey forum by another poster has had no response, can anyone tell us if access is possible to the QE2 Reservoir in Molesley / Walton-on-Thames? Thanks
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    Swift gone already 30th July 2011

    And also still here in High Wycombe - not too far from the OP's location in Berkshire. What most prompts them to leave? Change in daylight length? Food supply? Drop in temperature - we've just had a very warm spell around here though, but it's ended today? Or is it just when they've finished...
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    What sort of Sunbird is this?

    I'm no expert, but believe that's a Purple-rumped Sunbird (Nectarinia zeylonica)
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    A few more from Sri Lanka

    The intricacies of splits/shuffles are as yet beyond me. Am I right in deducing from Opus that the Sri Lankan minivet would therefore be Orange Minivet? I am struggling to find info on the possible split of the Hawk-Eagle. Which would the Sri Lankan bird be?
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    Sri Lanka ID help/confirmation

    Thank you Rockfowl. I didn't think there was enough in the pipit photo for a confirmed ID, and I'm annoyed at myself for not ID'ing the stilts as I have seen them several times in SE Asia.
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    A few more from Sri Lanka

    Many thanks!
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    A few more from Sri Lanka

    A few more (bad!) photos from Sri Lanka, Jan 2011 for Id please. Locations were as follows... 5 - Wasgamuwa Nat Park 6a & b - Up high - Above 1100m asl on the pass between Nawalapitiya and Kotagala. Not sure if the bird in 6a is also in 6b. 7 - Somewhere in the lowlands just inland from Galle.
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    Sri Lanka ID help/confirmation

    Some photos from a cycling trip to Sri Lanka in January 2011. Any help/confirmation of ID's gratefully received. Locations and my guesses are ... 1 - Sigiriya - ? Paddyfield Pipit 2 - Near Bakamuna - ? Crested Serpent Eagle 3 - Polonnaruwa Tank - ? 4 - Wasgamuwa Nat Park - ? Grey-headed Fish Eagle
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    Twelve hours in London?

    On the hotel front, my aunt & uncle had an overnight layover at London Gatwick on Saturday evening en route from Scotland to Cuba (flight to Cuba early Sunday.) They stayed in a pod hotel called Yotel inside Gatwick - and gave it a strong recommendation. There is one at Heathrow Terminal 4 I...
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    Turtle Doves - Glen Clova - How likely?

    Yes, I really thought not. I live in leafy Buckinghamshire and have never seen a turtle dove despite visits to sites formerly good for them. I'll have to put this sighting down to collared dove and wishful thinking!
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    Turtle Doves - Glen Clova - How likely?

    Got a bit of enforced free time just now & going through some old scraps/notes etc. and found one referring to a possible turtle dove sighting on a bike ride up Glen Clova. Maybe one for Delia this as it's her neck of the woods - but is this possible? Have any sightings been reported in this...
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    Javan Munia Drinking

    A fairly common & widespread bird on the island, but much less so than Scaly-breasted Munia.
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    1,000 "different types of birds" Brownsea I., Dorset!!! (BBC News)

    I think you're right Allen. The version I read at lunchtime definitely mentioned a 1,000 different types of birds & didn't mention the sika deer!
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    1,000 "different types of birds" Brownsea I., Dorset!!! (BBC News)

    See last paragraph! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/8693720.stm Think I'd better get down there this weekend and boost my life list!!
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    Warbler ID, Devon, UK

    Doh! I don't think I'll ever get those warblers sorted out!! In my guidebooks chiffchaffs are much greyer/greener birds than this redder/browner one. Thanks all.
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    Warbler ID, Devon, UK

    What kind of warbler is this please (& why)? Seen at Slapton Ley, Devon a couple of weeks ago. Hoping it might this be a Cetti's Warbler - there was definitely one singing in the vicinity but I didn't see this chap sing from this perch. Sorry the photo is rather blurred.
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    Status of Muscovy Duck on the British List.

    Thanks for an exceedingly full answer Steve, although I don't quite understand why the Camridgeshire (Ely) population doesn't constitute a viable self-sustaining population and therefore qualify for C1. Did it come close? Not that the Yorkshire individual would be part of that C1 population...
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