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  1. MJB

    Bird Life In My Area (and the odd animal)

    I've been fortunate enough to have been up most of the dolinas in the Vysoké Tatry, as far as the Polish border on one occasion, having been granted permits to drive up the forestry roads and tracks and entrusted with the keys to the locked barriers. It is indeed bear country: on one memorable...
  2. MJB

    Bird Life In My Area (and the odd animal)

    Czechia is now the official name in English and German, I understand. Re the separation of Willow and Marsh, the difficulties are not confined to your area, but are part of the clinal pattern of plumage differences from west to east, and also from UK to mainland Europe. British bird ID books...
  3. MJB

    Bird Life In My Area (and the odd animal)

    Note that article that you cite has a comment (from Tony Morris) about the reliability of the ID characteristics mentioned in it. In my experience, Willow Tits are not at all easy to separate in Slovakia or Czechia. Tony Morris states: "The best feature of separation is the pale base to the...
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