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    Inglorous Bustard? Weymouth

    There were certainly two and I think maybe three (unless one managed to sneak unseen across the garden into the garden next door) With the dull overcast day and them keeping well within the canopy of the apple trees they were remarkably well camouflaged despite strident colours in the detail.
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    Inglorous Bustard? Weymouth

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    Inglorous Bustard? Weymouth

    Yes a classic Gambian bird name! Also a classic tropical bird - dark and drab at first sight but in fact gloriously coloured when you look closely and vivid scarlet underwing when it flies.
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    Inglorous Bustard? Weymouth

    Just watching a pair of birds which appear to be inglorious bustards ( Gambian?) feeding on neighbours apple tree. Presumably escapes from an aviary- wonder if anyone else has seen these and knows where they have come from
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    Dorset bird identification - Common Sandpiper?

    Thanks Valery,I will keep a close eye open for it when i go past the water meadows in daylight.
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    Dorset bird identification - Common Sandpiper?

    Whilst walking along a green lane in mid Dorset at dusk last week I disturbed a starling sized bird from the 3m high hazel hedgerow. It had distinctive narrow 'cranked' wings with pointed tips. It flew in four 'zig zags' with several quick 'flick' wing beats and landed back in the hedge about 30...
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