Enough here to call this a LR Plover - UK inland former quarry Lake ? (1 Viewer)

[498 Ramblin Alex]

Also I was using Merlin live sound recording and it picked up the Little Ringed Plover. Is this very reliable?

Alex

 

[JWN Andrewes]

Dark collar looks too thick for Little Ringed, and I get much more of a regular Ringed vibe from this, but the picture quality is too poor for me to be sure.

 

[davercox]

Agree with JWN, sorry I know this doesn't help.

 

[Butty]

Quality is far too low (no offence) to identify this.
No, Merlin is not reliable, let alone very reliable. Which is not to say that it cannot have picked up an LRP in a situation where its occurrence is presumably not that unreasonable.

 

[Alexander Stöhr]

Hello Alex,

I dont know, how reliable the Merlin app is, and I agree with Butty, there are several wrongly identified cases here on BF. But as it identified the call as a Little RP, I agree with you that its ok to use the answer as a feature.

I must admit, that my first gut-feeling was a Common RP too, I agree with JWN, Dave, Jogresh, Butty and Clark. 2cy birds can have a dark bill and I am not sure, an orange bill-base would be visible here, the picture seems slightly colourless to me (no offence you know).

Assuming, that a Little RP isnt a massive rarity (can you give exact location please?) and bearing AI in mind, I struggled to find a pro Little RP feature. And a hard biased look revealed what can be interpreteted as a smallish black/dark mask with the right corner (not rounded) at the lower border. Yes its easy and true, that this is wishful thinking next level. Yes, I try to defeat Merlin here (personal reason, no offence)....

 

[498 Ramblin Alex]

Thank you everyone the search for a LRP goes on for me! I have seen RPs in the same location. North North Yorkshire. A better viee will come.

Of course the quality is bad, the good pictures go in the photogenic section!

Alex.

 

[498 Ramblin Alex]

From this afternoon! We are all good!