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  1. Michael Frankis

    I recorded a night bird call...

    Hi Dino, Welcome to BirdForum! I think it can be done if you convert the attachment to a .zip file, which can be attached. Sorry, no idea how to do this! Michael .
  2. Michael Frankis

    Capital Letters??

    It is done for two reasons: First to avoid confusing the general with the specific, e.g.: "There are three common terns in Northumberland, Sandwich Tern, Common Tern and Arctic tern, and five common gulls, Black-headed Gull, Common Gull, Herring Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull and Great...
  3. Michael Frankis

    Pigeon applause

    Hi Phil, Welcome to BirdForum! Checked in Birds of the Western Palearctic, it is at the bottom of the flap Michael
  4. Michael Frankis

    Another Warbler to ID...

    Hi Kush, That's a breed of domestic chicken - seen them in my local park children's zoo ;) Michael
  5. Michael Frankis

    Garden observations

    Would be nice to hear a recording of them, but they look bull-headed enough to be Willow Tits. Bit odd that I can't see the pale secondary panel though (tho' this is very inconspicuous to invisible on juveniles) Michael
  6. Michael Frankis

    Birding in Grand Teton and Yellowstone?

    Hi Tim, Never been there, but hope you have a great trip! August isn't the best time of year for a lot of birds as they're moulting and tend to keep a low profile. Best places to look for interesting birds will be muddy lake margins for migrating shorebirds. Also a fairly good time to...
  7. Michael Frankis

    Smallest hummingbird?

    Hi HaLeon, Welcome to BirdForum! There's no hummingbirds outside of the Americas - it sounds to me like a Hummingbird Hawkmoth. Check out this thread for some details: http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=19829 Michael
  8. Michael Frankis

    help with warbler ID

    Hi Jeff, Nothing so special, I just used a couple of American field guides. I've never seen Blue-winged before, but have seen several other American warblers on my two visits to the US (not New England, out west, MO to CA). I guess that knowing feather tracts and the sort of things that it is...
  9. Michael Frankis

    Hey Up

    Hi DKR, You want to try the Farne Islands . . . tern poop is a lot less yukky than gull crap, and a good one to brag to people about, generally reckoned a good luck sign ;) Michael
  10. Michael Frankis

    Seabird Crisis

    Unfortunately true - the oceans have absorbed about half of the excess CO2 produced since the industrial revolution. The result is that the oceans are becoming more acidic, making life for plankton, and all sea life that depends on calcium, more difficult. It has been suggested that any...
  11. Michael Frankis

    Seabird Crisis

    Hi Andrew, Yes for the first, and no for the second. Kangaroos are said to be very good substitutes for sheep/cows, their large, soft feet don't damage the soil or vegetation the way cows & sheep do, and the meat is very healthy to eat, low fat and what fat it has is good quality fat, not...
  12. Michael Frankis

    Seabird Crisis

    Hi Jason, Overall, it is a smaller contribution than CO2, but not a lot smaller (I don't have the exact figures to hand). Although x25 more potent, there is also a lot less of it (if there was as much methane as CO2, strike a match and the whole atmosphere would probably go 'Bang!' (o)< )...
  13. Michael Frankis

    help please - unfledged blackbird

    Hi Stormyseas, Welcome to BirdForum! Best to leave it where the parents can feed it. 'Park' it for the night in a dense bush close to where you found it, on a branch a few feet above ground, where cats can't reach it. Best to do this now, while there's still a bit of light - remember first...
  14. Michael Frankis

    Seabird Crisis

    Hi Andrew, Latest predictions re the Gulf Stream are only that its cessation will only result in a slowing of the warming in Britain, not cooling - it'll rise a couple of degrees here, as opposed to five to ten degrees in the rest of the world. As Tim's graph shows, the rate of warming is...
  15. Michael Frankis

    owl deaths

    I strongly suspect the death toll of owls on roads could be reduced substantially if cars were required to have small top corner lights, same as trucks have already. Look at an on-coming car in the dark on an unlit country road, and an on-coming truck, and see which it is easier to see where...
  16. Michael Frankis

    whitethroat not 100% sure

    Yep, still a Spotted Flycatcher! Whitethroat is plainer, with none of the pale fringes on the wing that you can see here, and has a very distinct orange patch on the wing too. And overall, a very different tone of brown. Different shape body, too. Michael
  17. Michael Frankis

    AOU Check-list changes.

    Book titles. Different rules apply! Certainly not in normal text, bird names, etc. Michael
  18. Michael Frankis

    whitethroat not 100% sure

    Yep, Spotted Flycatcher, definite. Quite a good bird to get these days, the rate they've been declining. Quite a few people have posted saying they've failed to find any, or if they did, struggled to find one Michael
  19. Michael Frankis

    Holiday but where?

    Curious . . . why Manchester, when you're coming from Paraguay?! :h?:
  20. Michael Frankis

    AOU Check-list changes.

    Hi Jason, Yes there is: letters after hyphens are not capitalised. If they're going to hyphenate, it should be Greater Sand-plover. But since their aim (as posted on other websites) was to give uniformity with Old World usage, they should have used Sand Plover Michael
  21. Michael Frankis

    Swallow ID

    Hi Gaga, I see no evidence of that - if it was, I'd expect it to be larger, and to show a less forked tail. In both those, it looks completely normal Bank Swallow to me. Has that hybrid ever been reported? Michael
  22. Michael Frankis

    Seabird Crisis

    Hi Jason, That's undisputed physical chemistry - it is easy to demonstrate that CO2 acts to increase heat retention by precisely definable amounts, and that increased CO2 will result in atmospheric heating. Mathematically predictable to a high degree of accuracy from the structure of the...
  23. Michael Frankis

    Seabird Crisis

    Couple of brief downward blips after 11/9/2001 and the Iraq invasion, in an otherwise inexorable rise Michael
  24. Michael Frankis

    AOU Check-list changes.

    Interesting list, though they've made some bad grammatical errors in some of the new names (should be Greater Sand Plover, not Greater Sand-Plover; ditto for Lesser Sand Plover; Common House Martin, not Common House-Martin) Perhaps more interesting was what they didn't do - things like lumping...
  25. Michael Frankis

    Seabird Crisis

    Hi Charlie, The easy way to connect malaria spread to global warming, is to point out the huge and rapidly rising contribution made to both by air travel, particularly long-haul Those who go on regular birding trips from Britain to south-east Asia, etc., take note! Michael
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