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    Oil Spill - The Exxon Valdez Disaster BBC2 26/3/09 9-10pm

    the amout the fishing comunnities where paid in the end added up to about a weeks worth of pay. That is discrasful. Then the wildlife...
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    Bonnie Scotland

    welcome, welcome to birdforum!
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    No viable breeding populations of raptors or finches on Malta

    usernames idea was good:-O (Mwah ha ha...) but unlikely:-C. and i doubt that the maltese goverment will have it at the top of there agenda to sort of and arrest a large amount of:D the population, and they probably won't have the facilities. I thinkwe should find a way to persuade the hunters...
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    Durham Birding

    B (:thanks ianB (:
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    Durham Birding

    Canaries in sedgefield, although not wild they caused alot of oohs and aaahs from the non birding public. Not likly to survive, as they are very conspicuous and a :cat: will get them:storm:. Probably going birding this friday. Where is the best place in the N tees Marshes to see SEOs? I went to...
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    Durham Birding

    I might go and have a look for the the Red Necked Grebe or the bean geese- both good ticks, although i saw a winter plumaged R N Grebe in northumberland
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    Durham Birding

    Saltholme, Monday: Main Pond: RT Diver, 3 wigeon (1m 2f), 2 mallard(1m 1f), 50 + coot, 2 Mute swan, lots of BH and Herring gulls, ! pied wag (f). Grassland: 1 Perigrine falcon(F), Lots of lapwings, 3 canada geese. Hide: 3 teal (2m 1f) 1 pochard (m) 1 wigeon(m) 2 mute swan, Moorhen, 6 coot...
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    Durham Birding

    Andrew, you are lucky with your wt eagles! i have only seen one, on the isle of skye, which was a juv, so it wasn't sporting a white tail:-C
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    Gigantic Eagle in WI?

    Roc possibly? I doubt it was as large as you say it was, but i dont think you are lying. When i first saw a white tailed eagle in scotland, i assumed it was bigger than it was. The Eagle with an 8 foot wingspan was an extreme variant. Some birders have been known to mistake Swallows for...
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    Strange robin

    probably a leusistic (check spelling, thats spelt wrong) variations, where it is paler and has creamy markings.
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    ring billed gull?

    thanks all. i will try to get pics, but i probably won't get down to the roost for a while. There was only about 10% of the herrings in white headed plumage. Anyway, i feel this is a case of the one that got away...
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    ring billed gull?

    thanks harry. I assume there was a mix of common gulls in this flock and these were by far the largest of there type, which made me dismiss them from the rest. with the other one, it seemed longer, had a longer head and it looked elegent compared to the herring gulls.
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    ring billed gull?

    thanks cristian, that is what i assumed, but i didnt' have my camera. I will try and get some soon. the caspiian type bird (the second one) seemed very long. I don't know any thing about the different herring gulls, but this bird stood out for so thats why i posted it.
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    ring billed gull?

    Hi all, recently at a local common, herring and black headed gull roost i noticed a 2 different gulls, both look like common, but they were larger, about 10 to 20 percent, had a fair amount less white on the primaries, on one it was nearly missing, and they had larger rings on there bills...
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    Strange bird in Central CA/ Global help needed!

    sorry, can't help you but it does look like a crow species or a grackle
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