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Eurasian Curlew or Far Eastern Curlew (1 Viewer)
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rockfowl
Mark Andrews
A Eurasian for me, very white, especially rear flanks, streaked not spotted and white rump just visible, also the rather greyish cast rather than brown upperparts. Far-eastern does winter in small numbers on the Gulf of Thailand, usually a handful at the Pak Thale.
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I agree with Eurasian. And I think it's clearer if the photos are brightened up.
(I'm not picking on you, Transform, but I often wonder why people don't adjust their photos to get the best view possible before posting. This isn't a photo site, so their are no bonus points for putting up a completely unadjusted photo: the point is to post a photo which is most likely to get the correct ID.)
(I'm not picking on you, Transform, but I often wonder why people don't adjust their photos to get the best view possible before posting. This isn't a photo site, so their are no bonus points for putting up a completely unadjusted photo: the point is to post a photo which is most likely to get the correct ID.)
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Thanks for your help - very late, I forgot about it!
transform777
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Thanks for your help - very late, I forgot about it!
transform777
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Thanks for your help - very late, I forgot about it!
Blast from the past!
Rockfowl - if you get a contact from this thread, then I hope you and yours are well. I guess it's not a great time to be a bird guide for China.
Here in Nara, for us ordinary locals, it's great to have our Unesco World Heritage attractions fairly quiet with no Chinese visitors, but obviously the opposite for businesses. The tourist numbers had increased sixfold over the last ten years, making it completely different from when we moved here twenty-five years ago, and Chinese was heard much more than Japanese in Nara Park - the deer and the space were great for Chinese (also Malaysian, and related) families with kids.
It's nothing to do with the Chinese being Chinese, just the physical numbers of people.
I remember Paris thirty or forty years ago, when the French complained about coachload after coachload after coachload of Japanese tourists in front of the Louvre and Pompidou, so locals couldn't just walk in as they used to. So what goes around comes around, or Karma as they call it.
But it's a bit too quiet these days; it would be great if the world calmed down and the Chinese visitors/guests came back.
Rockfowl - if you get a contact from this thread, then I hope you and yours are well. I guess it's not a great time to be a bird guide for China.
Here in Nara, for us ordinary locals, it's great to have our Unesco World Heritage attractions fairly quiet with no Chinese visitors, but obviously the opposite for businesses. The tourist numbers had increased sixfold over the last ten years, making it completely different from when we moved here twenty-five years ago, and Chinese was heard much more than Japanese in Nara Park - the deer and the space were great for Chinese (also Malaysian, and related) families with kids.
It's nothing to do with the Chinese being Chinese, just the physical numbers of people.
I remember Paris thirty or forty years ago, when the French complained about coachload after coachload after coachload of Japanese tourists in front of the Louvre and Pompidou, so locals couldn't just walk in as they used to. So what goes around comes around, or Karma as they call it.
But it's a bit too quiet these days; it would be great if the world calmed down and the Chinese visitors/guests came back.
