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Recent content by RobertaG

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    Mongolia

    Terelj NP and Hustai are great for first timers (with great wild flowers, butterflies and mammals too). There are also some sites very close to UB as well. (have seen Azure and white-crowned Penduline Tits within UB city limits (along the Tuul river - easy walking from the Winter Palace of the...
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    Parrot sp - Guyana

    Thank you KGS - I think you are probably right. I had discounted it originally because it wasn't in my notes for the day and this bird looked much paler than I'd remembered brown-throated being (and different from my other shots of brown-throated) but I can't see that it can be anything else!
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    Parrot sp - Guyana

    Working through my photos from a trip last November I came across this one. The image doesn't match any of the species in my notes and I can't find anything similar in the Field Guides. Can anyone help? Could it be a juvenile / immature and so look somewhat different from the guide...
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    Raptor Guyana

    Thank you, now that your ID has reminded me that the third option was indeed black hawk eagle (and not great black hawk as I mis-remembered) I can look up the right bird. Thanks again for the rapid response
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    Raptor Guyana

    I'd be interested to know what the forum thinks of this raptor please. Seen at the Abary mangrove trail near Georgetown in November. It was called first as a juvenile zone-tailed hawk, on viewing the back of the camera shots that was amended to probable long-winged harrier but another opinion...
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    Member Poll with Prize: Which Smartphone Do You Use?

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    Borneo jungle birding

    I was in Danum Valley in February, staying at the Rainforest lodge, and left my scope (a little Nikon ED50) in my room after the first walk. That's not to say that on occasions it wouldn't have been useful - for birds seen at the tops of trees from the main track to the lodge - but on the trails...
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    Hirundines/Swifts UK

    They're sand martins Rob
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    Complete Long shot - Papua New Guinea seabird

    Thanks for the input guys. For the time of year Brown noddy fits distribution-wise, so will go with that as a working hypothesis, and do a bit more learning to try and get to the same understanding you have! I was visiting friends doing VSO out there, had never done any foreign birding and field...
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    Complete Long shot - Papua New Guinea seabird

    This is probably an impossible ask but having just had some ancient slides converted to jpeg of a (non-birding, ouch) trip to PNG some 20+ years ago I came across these shots, taken from a small boat off the southern coast of West New Britain. The visit was in March/April. There were definitely...
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    What Wagtail? UK

    Hi Mick Looks like a juv yellow wag to me.
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    Need recommendations for mosquito repellent

    Hate the smell of DEET and what it does to clothes and plastics, so have been using Incognito on recent trips - it seems to work. It does have a tendency to 'wash-off' in very high humidity but I think there is now a gel as well as the spray. Also has shower gel and shampoo for total cover. I...
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    Stupid weekend trip to Tenerife, Canary Islands 26 - 27th July 2014

    For the Caribbean - what about the Blue Waters Inn on Tobago, can be B&B, half board or what they call Full American Plan, so not quite all inclusive (as drinks not included). You can book direct or several companies do packages I think. Similarly to the Aruba Hotel it's in a great location...
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    Bruny Island, Tasmania

    Hi Chowchilla some of the responses to this thread might be useful, especially for the areas around Hobart http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=213775 (although I've just spotted that you responded to the thread so have probably checked it out already) Inverawe gardens is easily...
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    Gambia - hotel with good grounds

    Sorry Mark I guess you can probably tell that essentially everyone loves the Gambia and wants to recommend their favourite bit! Whatever you choose you will love it! Roberta
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