Name a bird for each letter of the alphabet- (3 Viewers)

[dantheman]

Oops... this reply was for another thread.

I did wonder what you were on about lol ;-)

 

[Bewick]

Anyone got anything for U?

 

[dantheman]

Anyone got anything for U?

Thought that one may be hard ... nope, nothing, apart from the Usual Suspects ...

 

[lgonz1008]

Thought that one may be hard ... nope, nothing, apart from the Usual Suspects ...

If it was migrant as well, I'd have one option, but yeah, not many U birds in North America

 

[qwerty5]

This one's a stretch, but:

U - Upland Sandpiper

Very rare breeder in the area, there's only one reliable site within 100 miles

 

[lgonz1008]

This one's a stretch, but:

U - Upland Sandpiper

Very rare breeder in the area, there's only one reliable site within 100 miles

That was my rare U migrant!

 

[dantheman]

That was my rare U migrant!

It could also have been a rare UK/Cornwall vagrant ... but that would have been even more of a stretch!!

 

[dantheman]

V - Vanellus vanellus

Lapwing - common in the UK, and in Cornwall even, but yet to see one from the garden or indeed even in Falmouth (on the coast) - regular inland though.

 

[qwerty5]

W - White-crowned Sparrow

Not too hard to find most winters, but not common

 

[dantheman]

X - Xema sabini

Sabine's Gull - uncommon in Cornwall on passage. Most easily encountered on autumn seawatches in the far west. Otherwise I've seen two - one which twitched on the start of the Camel Trail, the other on a May seawatch from Falmouth.


Only Y and Z to go!

 

[lgonz1008]

Y - Yellow Warbler

Uncommon to rare winter resident in South Florida, see less than 10 individuals during the winter months.

 

[dantheman]

No-one with a Z?

If not ... I could possibly do Z with Zitting Cisticola* from when I lived down in France for a while 10 years or so ago ...



*(Even though it's really called Fan-tailed Warbler, of course ;-) )

 

[dantheman]

Think we need a more straightforward category (or else everyone got bored of it) or something ... ;-)

Birds with white on -

A - Arctic Tern

 

[Bewick]

B- Bobolink

 

[foresttwitcher]

C - Canada Goose

 

[WACCOE]

D-Damara Tern

 

[foresttwitcher]

E - Emperor Penguin

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

F -Fjordland Penguin

 

[Bewick]

G- Great-spotted woodpecker

 

[WACCOE]

H-Hartlaub's Gull.