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    Street View Birds

    How many birds can you find and identify on Google Maps Street View? I've had a quick look and I'll start the ball rolling with an easy one...
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    Sharing Raptor Stories

    You can read the Montsonís Bonelli's Eagle story at the following link. Why bother? Well, apart from being interesting, informative and entertaining in itself it is also the lead to sharing your own stories about Spanish raptors. Spanish raptors because we are looking for the best story to...
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    Bird song - listen and identify

    We have another competition for you: follow the link to the website and click on the "Just like being in the els Ports Natural Park". You will hear a recording by Eloisa Matheu, of birdsong in a gorge in northern Spain. How many species can you identify? Steve
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    Bird videos, mine and yours

    Is it interesting for Bird forumers to watch, comment and shre their own bird videos? I don't know, but I'm willing to start the ball rolling, and if anyone wants to play it will keep rolling. My first video is of a couple of Little Owls filmed this spring on the plains of Lleida, Catalonia. I...
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    Help with bird and mammal track ID Spain

    I've had these photos for almost a year now and unless some kind soul helps me to identify them their only function will be to take up space on my hard drive. So please...can someone help? There are both mammal and bird tracks, all taken near Lleida, Spain...
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    Track Identification please

    Hi there This is cheating as I really want to know about mammal track identification. However there is one viewing the mammal section and 30 viewing this forum! So I'll carry on cheating. Can anyone recommend a good on-line site for identification of European bird (mammal) tracks? Failing that...
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    European mammal track identification please

    Hello all After a walk along a dusty track I took a lot of photos of different mammal tracks but I am rather at a loss to identify them. I've tried on-line, but most of the references are for USA mammals. Can anyone recommend a damn good site for track identification for European mammals...
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    Probable Spanish Imperial Eagle, Pyrenees, Spain

    This is one of a series of photos taken by Dutch bird photographer Frank Dröge on Thursday 18th March at our Lammergeier feeding station and photography site in the Pre-Pyrenees of Catalonia, Spain. The rest can be seen here They show what is obviously a juvenile Aquila eagle, but one which is...
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    The Perfect Winter Trip in Northeast Spain?

    I can't give too many details at this early stage, as I think there's going to be a write-up by a young Bird Forum member, but the birding community really should have some knowledge of what we have seen in just 3 and a half days of birding in northeast Spain. Here's the best: 2...
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    MOnarch Butterflies in Ebro Delta, Spain

    Hi all I've just got back from a mini-tour and have seen a personal first for mainland Spain: Monarch Butterflies Danaus plexippus. I was with fellow bird forumer Max Levy and his family. Yesterday (19th July) he spotted a Monarch Butterfly as we were birding and commented it rather casually...
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    Is it a Hawfinch winter near you?

    Ever since the beginning of November I've noticed an unusually large number of Hawfinches, more abundant in the places where they normally turn up, but also appearing in places where they are rare. How are you for recent sightings of Hawfinches? Is this a large scale irruption or just a...
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    Raptor Silhouettes Challenge II

    The first Raptor Silhouettes Challenge was generally considered to be difficult. It took the best contestants several attempts to get every species right. Is raptor silhouettes challenge II going to be easier or more difficult? Why don't you see for yourself by downloading the raptor...
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    Northeast Spain from Zaragoza to Ebro Delta

    See the full bird list with comments on each species kindly submitted by Andrew Ross after a short birding trip to northeast Spain in April 2008. Steve http://www.BirdinginSpain.com
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    Black Grouse in Preseli Hills, Wales

    I was around the Preseli hills in August 2004, and the place looked like good habitat for Black Grouse. However, the most recent reference I can find to their presence there is in the first edition of the AA Book of British Birds (1969). I daresay they've gone extinct there, but does anyone have...
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    Ever tried to give up birding?

    I did once, way back in my student days. I remember brandishing reasons like the futility of the pursuit, the competitiveness and who knows what else. The only practical result was dipping out on a summer plumaged Ross's Gull at Cley. Have you ever tried to give up birding? For what reasons...
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    Raptor silhouettes challenge 2

    TO all Birdforum raptor freaks: Think you've got raptor identification pretty much worked out? Did you try the first raptor silhouettes challenge on the BirdingInSpain.com website? Well, if you didn't, I'm afraid you're too late. Number 1 has been replaced by number 2, which in my opinion is...
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    Unprecedented influx of Red-footed Falcons

    This May there has been an unprecedented influx of Red-footed Falcons in eastern Spain. Here around Lleida I was leading the Naturetrek Catalonia tour and was surprised to see 6 birds in the drylands of Balaguer on the 12th May and then 9 Red-footed Falcons the following day in the drylands of...
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    Getting rid of unwanted nesting gulls

    I've been told that someone wants to contact me after seeing an article in the Costa Brava Resident magazine about me ("Birdman"). Apparently they have gulls (Yellow-legged Gulls I suspect) nesting on their roof and want to know how to get rid of them, or at least how best to deal with the...
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    Dutch Birding Review of Flying over the Pyrenees

    André van Loon reviewed "Flying over the Pyrenees, standing on the plains" in the Dutch Birding magazine, vol nº1, 2008. See an extract (April 6th) at the following link: http://www.birdinginspain.com/blog/ Steve http://www.BirdingInSpain.com
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    Dupont's Lark article

    Forum members may like to read an article about the Dupont's lark which can be read at the following link...
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    TV Birding

    Ever been watching a film or program on TV (excluding documentaries) and found yourself listening to the birdsong in the background? Sometimes it sounds authentic, ie representative of the right place and time of year, but at others...! For example Common Swifts in the winter, American...
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    What about birds and noise?

    The effect of noise (human made or otherwise) on the composition of bird communities seems to me to have gone largely ignored. Yet surely it must be an important factor for some species? For example, is it the humidity or vegetation structure that makes Wrens one of the most easily detectable...
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    Splitting, renaming and all that stuff - where do we go?

    The Dutch have split the Iberian Green Woodpecker, and I'm not sure if the local race of Pied Flycatcher too. Is anyone else set to follow suit? Are there are more Iberian splits in the making? It would be interesting to know who is the authority on this so we could prepare ourselves accordingly...
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    Birding in Spain? Look at some photos.

    Sorry but I don't quite know where to put this, but if anyone is planning a birding trip to Spain they might be interested in looking at a couple of new galleries on the BirdingInSpain.com web page...
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    Should birders be conservationists?

    Well, just that. I am, and I can't imagine myself being any other way. However, I often get the impression that many birders aren't. So the question arises - should birders be conservation-minded? Yeah or nay? What's your opinion? Steve http://www.birdinginspain.com
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