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  1. 3Italianbirders

    Various Yellow Wagtail subspecies, Italy April 2023

    I am finally getting around to posting some photos of the various subspecies of Yellow Wagtail that we saw during the Easter break on Ventotene island, off the coast south of Rome. We have ideas but some look like intergrades of some sort and additional opinions would be very welcome. 1 and 2...
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    A week in the north-east of Italy (Lammergeier galore)

    We spent 8 days in northern Italy, 3 in the north-east in the Udine area and the remaining ones in the Val Venosta, a bit of the Trentino-Alto Adige region where we had only spent a few hours two years ago. The Udine bit was never going to be too birdy, as we had family engagements there, but we...
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    Spring migration on Ventotene island at Easter

    We spent the Easter break on the island of Ventotene, off the coast between Rome and Naples, a famous migration hotspot as are most of the other small islands along the western coast of Italy, in the Thyrrenian sea, all belonging to a monitoring and ringing project. Somehow we had never managed...
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    Common Gull? Tuscany, Italy mid-March

    Hello all, We went on a pelagic trip off the coast of northern Tuscany last week, and among the birds we saw there was the gull below, which we took as a 1st winter Common Gull, as it was thus identified by the guy who organised the trip. We usually don't see many Common Gulls in Italy. They do...
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    Alpine Choughs at lunch in the Dolomites

    I thought I'd share this video and a few pics I took while on a brief skiing trip to the Dolomites. Alpine Choughs were by far the most common species, with other alpine specialties like Snowfinch and Alpine Accentor. Also seen were Carrion Crow, Raven and Great Tit, with more common species...
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    The Falcon Thief by Joshua Hammer

    I highly recommend this book. It's a true story of an egg thief and it shines a light on the big money behind falconry and the trade in endangered species. Written like a crime story but gives all the background on all the relevant issues. Anyone else has read it?
  7. 3Italianbirders

    Montagu's Harrier disappears as UK breeding species?

    A friend has just sent me this article: https://www.birdguides.com/news/montagus-harrier-disappears-as-uk-breeding-species/ Terrible news. Does anyone have more info?
  8. 3Italianbirders

    Birding the Italian extremities in early Autumn: September - October 2022

    Part 1: Sicily, September 19-24 In the summer, for various reasons, we hadn’t been able to get away, so we jumped at the chance to join a guided 5-day trip in Sicily, exploring the wetlands of the western coast and a mountain area in the interior. Then, less than two weeks after we came back we...
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    A botched February ski trip remembering the Autumn

    This post is mostly an excuse for writing up about our weekend (in October 2021) in the Dolomites (same place as last summer) for the annual meeting of EBN Italy. I had started working on a brief report when we came back but then somehow it fell by the wayside. 🙄 So, first the botched ski trip...
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    A week in the Dolomites - late June 2021

    First of all apologies for the lateness of this trip report, which was almost ready weeks ago, but somehow I kept on postponing the final touches. Like last year, we had decided not to book any holiday in advance because of Covid-induced uncertainty. The original idea of the French Pyrenees and...
  11. 3Italianbirders

    Reed or Marsh Warbler? Tuscany, Italy, late May

    Hello all, I first posted this photo in another thread, labelling it as a Reed Warbler, as they were singing everywhere. But now we are having second thoughts and a bizarre idea: what if it was a Marsh Warbler? It's rare and very localised in central Italy, but not impossible. We didn't see it...
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    where to move our feeders?

    We have always kept our feeders at the back, in front of our garage (where we keep the feed) and they have always been very successful with up to 20 species throughout the cold season and 80-100 birds (mostly Siskins) on the coldest days. You can have an idea of what they were like in my spring...
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    Abruzzo and Gran Sasso National Parks, Italy, July 2020

    We spent 5 days in Abruzzo, a region in central Italy with three National Parks and a couple of regional ones. It also happened to be one of the areas in Italy that had been less affected by the COVID pandemic and thus presumably safer, although we weren’t planning to spend a lot of time in...
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    Birding in Southern Tuscany and thereabouts

    New thread! Same species, albeit with some nice mammals. Also an expedition is planned for tomorrow in a neighbouring region, so something new should crop up. The usual afternoon drive, with a couple of hours spent stationary in the middle of a field produced more or less the same species of...
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    a birding holiday in 2020?

    We usually go on holiday in mid-June, having to wait until the schools close on June 10. This year it would have been different anyway as our daughter has exams and we would have had to go later in July or August, terrible months for birding, unless we travelled very far - Australia had come to...
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    it was in my salad

    Found this in my bagged salad (I know I shouldn't). I thought it would be easy to identify because of the heart-shaped leaves and the red stem, but I failed to find it on my plants book and on two different apps, PlantSnap and PlanNet (in my experience both are pretty useless). Can anyone help?
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    High winds kill thousands of migrating birds in Greece

    Anyone seen this? Or anyone in Greece can confirm?
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    what is this? (from the paper) Peacock? Or a fake? Venice, Italy

    there is an article in the Guardian about "wildlife" supposedly coming back to Venice because of the lockdown. The first picture is the one attached below with the caption you can see. "seabird" seriously? it looks like a cross between a grebe and a peacock!!!! Do peacocks even swim? Ideas? :eek!:
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    Birding in the time of Coronavirus

    So we are stuck. We can go out within the precincts of the town council only to buy groceries and/or medicines, or other necessary errands such as going to the bank or the post office. We are as yet unsure if going for a walk, provided we keep our distance from other people (as we have been...
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    A weekend in northern Tuscany

    We spent an enjoyable weekend (again without the offspring) with some of our fellow EBN Italy members in the area just north of Pisa, at the northernmost tip of Tuscany. We got up at 3am on the Saturday morning in order to meet the others at Marina di Vecchiano at 7am for a bit of seawatching...
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    Half a day in Torrile, Parma, with herons and ducks

    Not much going on birding-wise in the past couple of weeks, so being in the northern city of Parma on non-birding business we grabbed the chance to visit the nearby LIPU flagship reserve, Torrile, where G had been eons ago but that I had never visited. The reluctant teenager refused to join us...
  22. 3Italianbirders

    Sardinia and Corsica 9-22 June 2019

    This year we went for what our daughter called an “almost normal” holiday ;). We had had a very busy spring and didn’t want to drive thousands of kilometres like we did in Spain last year and in Scotland two years ago, nor could we face the hassle of flying - renting a car etc. We opted instead...
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    Our Local patch with Black-headed Bunting (and more)

    We made a flying visit to our local patch yesterday afternoon, since G had seen twice a Black-headed Bunting and when we had gone together it had failed to materialise. This time it was there! Singing from a wire, not very close (definitely not like this one a couple of years ago), and in...
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    Lake Neusiedl, Austria, April 17-26 2019

    We had been eyeing the calendar for a couple of years, as you don’t always get an Easter break in the second half of April, which even if it’s not the peak of the spring migration, can still be pretty good compared to most Easters. On top of this there was an Italian national holiday, April...
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    World Press Photo and falconry

    I had a look at the winning pics of this year's World Press Photo awards and couldn't believe my eyes as the first prize in the "Nature" category is a story about falconry. While the first three photos are about the decline of Saker falcons in Mongolia, all the others depict falconers with...
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