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    Zermatt/Valais

    Zermatt, home of the Matterhorn, is great for skiing but also snowfinches, alpine accentor, golden eagles, nutcrackers - further down the valley at Leuk, wallcreepers are a possibility even in winter: http://www.flickr.com/photos/breffni/sets/72157625636547141/
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    Zermatt and environs December

    Zermatt is good in winter for a range of high altitude specialities. A short report and photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/breffni/sets/72157625636547141/ Nearby Leuk is a spot for the likes of red-billed choughs, rock buntings, cirl buntings, wallcreepers etc inwinter.
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    rehabilitation of guillemots, razorbills

    The birds generally starving and/or injured and sitting oon the shore dieing of exposure and/or predation by gulls. Can anybody point me to some reliable information/advice on this subject? (we don't have bird rehab organisations in the rep of ireland)
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    Shorebirds of Ireland - Jim Wilson and Mark Carmody

    Great book - the introductory section about shorebird ecology is a page turner. The species accounts include all kinds of additional details not found in a field guide, and of course the photos are fantastic, showing the birds in context rather than bland closeups.
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    Raven pro question

    Does anybody know if raven pro be used to seperate individuals of (say) corncrake or is it necessary to pull out variables and run them on a coefficient corelation program on a stats package? Anybody got any experience of trying this, with any species? For a research project...
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    white/pied wags in august/sept

    I had a fall of wagtails here (near carlingford lough, irish east coast) last week which may have been 1W pieds dispersing but i am inclined to think that several looked good for white wagtail (I've always heard that it is hazardous trying to seperate them at this time fo the year). Good...
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    Pelagic: what are acceptable sea conditions?

    For a pelagic in the irish sea I have been advised that anything more than a beaufort 3 is too rocky to see (or hold down) anything much. A 3 means winds at 7 – 10 knots and a few white crests on waves. Is this true? Or is it worth going out in a force 4 or 5 if good visibility? The boat is a...
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    South California June

    This thrasher type bird in very low light in the pine valley, south california (attached). Also several photos from the trip, the identification of some of these are tentative? http://www.flickr.com/photos/breffni/sets/72157620846484371/
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    lesser nighthawk?

    salton sea area southwest california, roosting on rocks by the shore...
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    Wildlife Friendly Plants

    There is an advert at the top of this page for "Wildlife Friendly Plants" which includes Verbena bonariensis (iron hard) - this is an invasive from south america and should ideally not be planted - there may be others in the catalogue - native species are best.
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    More Buzzards Poisoned in Ireland

    http://www.irishtimes.com:80/newspaper/ireland/2009/0506/1224245993542.html
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    Irish Woodpeckers

    Given that great spotted woodpeckers are now breeding in ireland (at least 10 active pairs now known), a few questions arise: 1. Where did they come from? Scandanavia or Wales or elsewhere? 2. Is this founder population sufficiently genetically diverse to be sustainable? 3. What is the impact...
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    San Diego in late June

    I have to attend a conference in San Diego in late June and was planning to stay around the city and maybe do a pelagic from one of the whale watching boat trips - however apparently there is no whale watching in June and looking at the various web sites, there doesn't seem to be too many birds...
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    american turtle

    anybody know what species? http://www.flickr.com/photos/breffni/page2/
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    American birds

    I put up a few old photos from US trips here http://www.flickr.com/photos/breffni/ but someone emailed me to say that several of the id's were off without saying which - anything look wrong here? Thanks in advance!
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    Public use telescope

    Folks, I am looking for a suitably robust indestructable high quality telescope for public use in a fairly rural setting by the sea (not coin operated) - does anybody have any experience of these things? And can anybody recommend a good vendor/product line? The usual vendors don't seem to do...
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    Public use telescopes/bins

    Folks, I am looking for a suitably robust indestructable high quality telescope for public use (not coin operated) - does anybody have any experience of these things? And can anybody recommend a good vendor/product line? The usual vendors don't seem to do them at all... (for a good cause) Thanks
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    Id of dunlin subspecies

    Hi folks, Is it possible to seperate the three sub-species of Dunlin regularly occuring in Britain/Ireland: schinzii, alpina and arctica? And if so does anybody know of a web site that covers this, hopefully with photos? Also of particular interest, is it possible to distinguish hudsonia and...
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    McCain/Palin bad for birds

    Palin has a track record of supporting various projects that are bad for wildlife, most notably the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve...
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    Endangered Species Act In Danger of Extinction

    "The Bush administration yesterday proposed a regulatory overhaul of the Endangered Species Act to allow federal agencies to decide whether protected species would be imperiled by agency projects, eliminating the independent scientific reviews that have been required for more than three decades...
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    Best bird poems

    My favorite bird poem is this by FW Harvey: From troubles of the world I turn to ducks, Beautiful comical things Sleeping or curled Their heads beneath white wings By water cool, Or finding curious things To eat in various mucks Beneath the pool, Tails uppermost, or waddling Sailor-like on the...
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    black headed gull ireland

    Full hooded BHG - could hardly be anything else?
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    frogs maine usa

    help with id much appreciated....
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    Maine USA end June

    Help with these much appreciated...
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    Whale watching outing from Boston

    Went on the Boston Aquarium half day outing, mainly for the birds, though the feeding humpbacks and minke were great. Birds seen were as follows: double crested cormorant common loon eider duck common tern herring gull great black backed gull gannet sotty shearwater great shearwater corys...
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