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Identification help Stonechat
Hi all, I would like some help identifying this bird, it was with a flock of common Stonechats. It was the above eye stripe that caught my attention. The location was St Mary's lighthouse in Whitley Bay, Northumberland.- Tatz13
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Iraq Camp Balad (JBB)
It could have been Richard, but i really cant remember, it was a while ago, and without the aid of photographs I couldn't say for definite. -
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Iraq Camp Balad (JBB)
Ohh wow Richard, that is it exactly :) I have been trying to identify it for the last 6 months :) well done. -
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Iraq Camp Balad (JBB)
This is my present camp, and hopefully my last This camp has another of my favorite birds. It took me lots of research to find out exactly what this bird is but eventually I found it. The Blue Cheeked Bee-eater. These birds are really colorful and fun to watch. I have a camera, but the... -
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Iraq Camp Erbil Kurdistan
Kurdistan is green; it isn’t like Iraq which is barren mostly. The camp backs onto the airport and has quite a bit of swampy ground with small lakes. Here we have Sandpipers, lots of different ones I haven’t seen before, also Plovers Redshanks and curlews, the odd Avocet and I thought I saw a... -
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Iraq Camp Prosperity, Green Zone in Baghdad
Here I met one of my new favorite birds. Prosperity is built around one of Sadam’s wives palaces. It has 1 large lake and one small lake inside. I took a day off and went fishing one morning; Sadam had fish genetically modified for sport. I believe they were a cross between a carp, trout and I... -
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Iraq Camp Kirkuk
Kirkuk is in Northern Iraq just below Kurdistan. Now I have seen lots of birds in places I never thought I would see them since I have been here, but one morning when I was driving to the office along the perimeter road of the camp, through the chain link fence flying alongside me was a bright... -
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Iraq Camp Taji
Ok, where to start? Let me see, I arrived in Iraq August 09. My first camp was camp Taji around 20 miles north east of Baghdad. This area wasn’t very bird friendly, plenty of sparrows everywhere, collar doves and an abundance of black headed gulls. The gulls really surprised me being out in the... -
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Hi from Iraq again :)
Ok lets try this again! I joined the forum with the intention of giving you all a list of the birds i found over here, but due to internet restrictions on the bases i have been on, it never happened. I shall be leaving here in around 4 weeks and i can at last get down to some serious bird... -
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Hi from Iraq
Hi there i am Andrew i am from Whitley Bay in Tyne and Wear and i am currently working in Iraq. I have joined up because i thought some of you might be interested in knowing the birds i spot in the middle of a warzone. I am not sure where to post the sightings yet but im sure i will get the hang...