Bird Mastermind round 9

[Jane Turner]

Same rules...all could have been taken in the WP, 4 main ones and a very tricksy tie-breaker

[Jane Turner]

The tiebreaker......oof this is hard

Same species

[Harry Hussey]

1)Short-toed Eagle
2)Whinchat?
3)Cliff Swallow?
4)Chiffchaff
Harry H

[Harry Hussey]

Tiebreaker:Eastern Bonelli's?
Harry H

[Brendan T]

1. Common Buzzard
2. Red-breasted Fly??
3. Cliff Swallow
4. Siberian Chiffchaff

and I'm going to back Harry's inspirational choice of Eastern Bonelli's for the tiebreaker.

[Andrew Whitehouse]

1) Honey Buzzard
2) Penduline Tit
3) Err, maybe Crag Martin
4) Dusky Warbler
5) Bonelli's Warbler

[jpoyner]

1. Short-toed Eagle
2. Redstart (f) ???
3. Crag Martin?
4. Dusky Warbler

Tie-breaker......I'll have a stab at Sibe Chiffchaff....cos it's calling and it looks like autumn!

[Jane Turner]

Late autumn too...that Sycamore is nearly leafless!

[Jane Turner]

Ok..thats the minimum 4 guesses.

Of the main 4 all have been named, though three is the max for any one person.

The tiebreaker is so far unguessed.

[satrow]

1. Short-toed Eagle
2. Red-breasted Fly
3. Crag Martin
4. Dusky Warbler
5. Eastern Bonelli's

Andy.

[Jane Turner]

still no one with more that three...

and so to bed. Quizz 10 is ready!

[Bluetail]

1. Short-toed Eagle
2. Penduline Tit
3. Crag Martin
4. Dusky Warbler
5. Pallas's Warbler

[Michael Frankis]

Short-toed Eagle
Red-breasted Fly
Crag Martin
Dusky Warbler

Tiebreaker - looks a bit too big-headed for a Phyllosc. I'm going to be daring and say Desert Warbler, and even say which one: Meols, Cheshire, 28/10 - 22/11 1979

Michael

[Joern Lehmhus]

I will try with
Circaetus gallicus
ficedula parva-thats red breasted flycatcher I suppose
Cliff swallow
Chiffchaff

and the Tiebreaker looks like a Phylloscopus to me, well I really dont know. I will just guess at trochiloides, in an Acer Tree, maybe Acer platanoides.

[Joern Lehmhus]

On second thought, the Tiebreaker could also be a Hippolais species... pallidus perhaps?
Looks right for that, but did that ever reach Western / Middle Europe? I can´t recall that at the moment...

[Jasonbirder]

What about Booted Warbler for the tie-breaker?

[Joern Lehmhus]

Sorry, meant to say Hippolais pallida, not pallidus

[Jane Turner]

No one has got better than three still, though all birds have now been named correctly. The tie-breaker was miraculous, I've never seen this species more than 2ft off the ground before, let alone in a tree.

[Jane Turner]

To make it easier and clear the way for the next one.

[Joern Lehmhus]

Ok, number two is whinchat...

[Joern Lehmhus]

So the tie-breaker is really desert warbler? I will go with michael on this one...

[Jane Turner]

That would be correct!

1. Is Short-toed Eagle... in Greece
2. Is Whinchat taken in Merseyside
3. Is Crag Martin in Northern Spain. I was looking for a Wallcreeper at the time
4. Is a Chiffchaff, a possible tristis

and 5

Is a Desert Warbler, though not the Meols one. This was at Flamborough. I seem to get followed around by Desert Warblers. I've seen three and not twitched any. The Meols bird was a 2 minute bike ride from my home. I saw it every day, fed it mealworms and had it land on me a few times. So a bonus coconut Michael F for that one! One to Harry for getting three in his first go.

[Joern Lehmhus]

Oops, I see I made a mistake , I wrote cliff swallow, meaning this brown swallow (Ptyonoprogne rupestris),nesting in rocks and sometimeson buildings in southern europe and the alpes.

But when I looked at your answer and the answers of the others, Jane, I saw that the species is called crag martin and cliff swallow seemed to be something different.
I looked it up; a north american, Hirundo pyrrhonota. I do not have much knowledge of the nearctic birds and could not have thought of that species, because I didn´t know it.

I meant the crag martin, but perhaps I shouldn´t get full points here?
Well, never mind , I will have look at the next.
By the way, was I right about the tree?


I looked this up in the

[Jane Turner]

You get a coconut too then!

[Jane Turner]

Here is the Meols DW. Grainy old pic...but a fantastic bird. I saw it every morning before school! Eee them were the days...