gerglish

[lou salomon]

yellow!

this thread has been extirpated completely. let's see where we ended our "private party". not solved i guess were:

1. stone hen (?)
2. vine hen
3. stone redchalk
4. sparrowhawk owl
5. goshawk owl
6. sea beachrunner
7. grassrunner
8. waverunner
9. swamp runner
10. running bird
(the last 2 added to complete the ten "new" species)

[Jurij Hanžel]

4 Surnia
5 Uralensis

[Jurij Hanžel]

6 maritima

[lou salomon]

right with 4,5,6 (oh, i forgot you are an owl expert...)

[david2004]

8. Leach's Storm Petrel-Oceanodroma leucorhoa

[david2004]

9. Broad-billed Sandpiper - Limicola falcinellus

[lou salomon]

right with both, david, and welcome to this quiz. i hope you didn't know them and you didn't searched the web/books for them.

[Jurij Hanžel]

10 Cursorius
1 A. graeca

[lou salomon]

yepp! right with both again

[Jurij Hanžel]

2 the one in Britain (alectoris that is)

[david2004]

thanks lou. no i didnt cheat!

[david2004]

7. I' guessing another seabird of somekind judging by the last "runner"s. sandpiper? er..not sure though. either buff-breasted or pectoral.Tryngites subruficollis???

[lou salomon]

it is tryngites, indeed; j., you got a serious rival

[lou salomon]

the score in this round is:
5 poits jurij
3 points david

[Jurij Hanžel]

3 M. saxatilis
2 Perdix

[lou salomon]

that easy??
7:3 for Jurij

how is it with these:

11. mountain finch
12. house bunting
13. herring gull
14. slate falcon
15. house glider
16. willow sparrow
17. willow bunting
18. mediterranean gull
19. pastoral rainwhistler
20. wormwood rainwhistler

[Joern Lehmhus]

loosely translated, 15 could also be House sailor... sorry, hope you don´t mind , Lou

[lou salomon]

i'm ok with "house sailer" - it's even funnier.

[Jurij Hanžel]

11 M. nivalis
12 E. striolata
14 concolor
15 delichon
17 had this one in SloQuiz, mustn't say anything
18 genei

[Jurij Hanžel]

15 apus affinis

[lou salomon]

11 M. nivalis
12 E. striolata
14 concolor
15 delichon
17 had this one in SloQuiz, mustn't say anything
18 genei

11 - no
12 - yes
14 - yes
15 - yes for affinis
17 - i "knew" we had it somewhere...
18 - no

[Jurij Hanžel]

11 F. montifringilla
Herring = Fuscus

[Jurij Hanžel]

Mediterranean=michahellis

[lou salomon]

every guess: yess

[Jurij Hanžel]

What whistles in the rain?

[lou salomon]

didn't we have the genus already, mr. superbrain? at least i mentioned rainwhistler somewhere. of course the name is misleading cause they whistle not only in the rain, particularly not the mentioned species!

[Jurij Hanžel]

Eek, I'm just a bird brain, spare me!
Gotcha there (enlightenment): Charadrius sp.?

[lou salomon]

yepp, which ones?

[lou salomon]

wormwood and pastoral, remember?

[Jurij Hanžel]

wormwood: dubius
pastoral: alexandrinus

[lou salomon]

neither nor; dubius is river rainw., alex is lake rw.

[lou salomon]

cm'on! 2 of those fancies in collins.

[Jurij Hanžel]

Caspian plover, Dotterel

[lou salomon]

caspian is right, try for the other

[Jurij Hanžel]

Which one did I get right, wormwood or pastoral??
C. pecuarius??

[lou salomon]

got them: wormwood=asiaticus, pastoral=pecuarius

next:

21. flour swallow
22. fence bunting
23. white-throated singer
24. wandering leafsinger
25. mountain leafsinger
26. hook bullfinch
27. silksinger
28. lore seaswallow
29. meadow beachrunner
30. storm gull

[Jurij Hanžel]

21 Mehlschwalbe
23 communis
25 bonelli
26 Loxia curvirostra
27 cettia
30 canus
29 minutilla

[lou salomon]

21 Mehlschwalbe - yepp, so you know also a bit of nemacki?
23 communis - null
25 bonelli - yepp
26 Loxia curvirostra - ne
27 cettia - da
30 canus - da
29 minutilla[/QUOTE]- da (did we have that sp. aready?)

[Jurij Hanžel]

29 yes, we already had it
26 Parrot crossbill

[lou salomon]

26 no

[lou salomon]

still to solve:
22. fence bunting (if we didn't have it)
23. white-throated singer
24. wandering leafsinger (if it is not too easy for ya)
26. hook bullfinch
28. lore seaswallow

[Jurij Hanžel]

22 cirlus
23 communis
24 borealis
26 pinicola
28 sterna sp.

[lou salomon]

right everything except communis (it's something totally different...); now which tern has lores?!!

[Jurij Hanžel]

23 gutturalis (as in Slovene)
28 anaethetus

[lou salomon]

yepp!

[lou salomon]

31. mountain stilter
32. white-eyed gull
33. acacia grassmosquito
34. juniper thrush
35. emerald ........

[Jurij Hanžel]

32 leucopthalmus

[Jurij Hanžel]

34 pilaris

[lou salomon]

32 - was obvious: yes
34 - yes

[Jurij Hanžel]

31 ochropus

[Jurij Hanžel]

35 Merops orientalis

[lou salomon]

31 - ne
35 - ja

[lou salomon]

31. mountain stilter = ? there was creek stilter before, remember?
33. acacia grassmosquito = ? easy if you look at the "vegetables" drawn in the grassmosquito-section of collins.

[Jurij Hanžel]

33 Arabian warbler

[lou salomon]

yupp! i'll have a beer in honour of sloquiz tonight (since i don't smoke anymore..)

[lou salomon]

ok, i'll show you a very confusing pic of a mountain stilter (copyright again broken, some german guy probably, dunno who)

[Jurij Hanžel]

Trying to lure me to say S. cantillans or what?? I say it's a Motacilla, hmm ... hmmm cinerea?

[lou salomon]

proof that you are almost impeccable in foto-quizzes - i was totally confused with that pic when i saw it first. it is cinerea. btw. you probably know this, don't ya: http://www.bavarianbirds.de/what/cbirding_e.html

[Jurij Hanžel]

Yep, a very nice quiz indeed (the Bavarian birds)! It isn't all that hard until it comes to wader rarities *sighs*.

[lou salomon]

who do you tell...

[Jurij Hanžel]

Thank God we don't get them in Slovenia!

[lou salomon]

you don't get them unless you look out for them again and again...(at least pec sand must get to SLO too from time to time...)

[lou salomon]

i see there's nothing left to say in this thread either, ------>

basta e finito