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Recent content by Mark Harper

  1. White-capped Monarch

    White-capped Monarch

    • Mark Harper
    • Media item
    • monarcha richardsii
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  2. Mark Harper

    Bannerman’s Shearwater and Matsudaira’s Storm-Petrel

    Dark-eyed White-eye and White-capped Monarch added.
  3. Dark-eyed White-eye

    Dark-eyed White-eye

    • Mark Harper
    • Media item
    • zosterops tetiparius
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  4. Mark Harper

    Bannerman’s Shearwater and Matsudaira’s Storm-Petrel

    I have added to the gallery photos of these two species. Should be some more new opus species to come as I work through photos from a trip from New Zealand to Japan by sea.
  5. Matsudaira's Storm-Petrel

    Matsudaira's Storm-Petrel

    • Mark Harper
    • Media item
    • drepanis coccinea hydrobates matsudairae opusimage
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  6. Bannerman's Shearwater

    Bannerman's Shearwater

    • Mark Harper
    • Media item
    • opusimage
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  7. Mark Harper

    Two people break 10,000 species, and on the same day? Can it be?

    I would guess this is the same person breaking records in 2007. https://www.freelists.org/post/tn-bird/World-Record-in-South-America And if he was training as a doctor back then he has achieved a lot in 16 years per LinkedIn, whilst also finding the time to see so many birds...
  8. Mark Harper

    Attenborough nature reserve Nottinghamshire, Uk today (12/1/24)

    Sounds like a Water Rail
  9. Mark Harper

    Hello, please help me identify. Thought it was a finch. Hand reared it after the whole nest fell out of the tree. Location Northwest,South Africa

    Diderik Cuckoo
  10. Mark Harper

    Top 5 of 2023

    Tricky to get down to a top 5 and some great birds left out, but here goes. 1. Scarlet-banded Barbet 2. Hawk Owl 3. Long-whiskered Owlet 4. Marvellous Spatuletail 5. Steller's Eider
  11. Mark Harper

    Bass Strait

    Subantarctic Brown Skua would be far more likely than South Polar I would have thought.
  12. Mark Harper

    Most misidentified birds in your area

    At my local patch Whitburn Coastal Park the two main confusion species seem to be Lesser Black-backed Gulls and Rock Pipits, whilst both are seen occasionally and Rock Pipits are a common winter visitor 0.5km to the south of the Park whenever I see these on a visitors ebird checklist, but no...
  13. Mark Harper

    Bass Strait

    Look fine for Short-tailed IMO. Pink-footed would be massively out of range.
  14. Mark Harper

    Pallid or Common Swift - Whitburn, Co Durham, 5th Nov 2023

    Thanks kuzeycem. I would be interested to your reasoning.
  15. Mark Harper

    Pallid or Common Swift - Whitburn, Co Durham, 5th Nov 2023

    A selection of my photos of the Swift sp that was around Whitburn yesterday. The majority of the time it looked very dark, just occasionally did it appear browner. I am leaning slightly towards Common, but am far from certain.
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