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  1. Andrew Whitehouse

    Most misidentified birds in your area

    People obviously misidentify birds sometimes and there are some well-known species pairs or groups that are pretty hard to get right. My interest in this thread is not necessarily in general cases of hard identifications but in locally specific errors that regularly occur in particular places or...
  2. Andrew Whitehouse

    Birding Japanese: Japan in summer June-July 2023

    Might have an attempt at another on the go trip report. I'm currently in Japan and will be here for around a month, visiting many different areas of the country. It's actually my fourth visit (fifth if you count some birding on an overnight layover), but all my previous visits were in winter...
  3. Andrew Whitehouse

    Willow Tit decline

    I was quite startled to read this tweet about the continuing crash in Willow Tit numbers in the UK. I think the area mentioned is one of the main strongholds for them in northern England. It does seem that this species, which was quite common when I was a kid in the Midlands in the 80s, is...
  4. Andrew Whitehouse

    Our Man in Armenia (and Cyprus too)

    Am currently on a bit of a jaunt to the east of the Western Palearctic. I'm in Armenia for a week or so, sandwiched between a few days in Cyprus. So far, things have been very good. I arrived at Larnaca in Cyprus in the early hours of Sunday 9th. I stayed nearby for the night and then birded...
  5. Andrew Whitehouse

    Flower, Greece

    Anyone help with an ID for this flower, taken today in Thessaly, Greece? They were quite common and growing in deciduous oak woodland.
  6. Andrew Whitehouse

    It's all Greek: Northern and Central Greece, December-January 2022/23

    So I'll be making an attempt at doing an 'as I go along' trip report, which isn't something I've done for a while. And used to always peter out when I did them. We'll see how we go. I'll be in Greece until around 10th January, mostly in the northeast. It's not a country I've visited before and...
  7. Andrew Whitehouse

    Walrus in Ireland

    A Walrus has turned up on Valentia Island, County Kerry:
  8. Andrew Whitehouse

    Thylacine rediscovery?

    Interesting claims being made in this video: Would be nice if it's true.
  9. Andrew Whitehouse

    Warbler, Aberdeen, Scotland

    Can I just have a check on the ID of this Phyllosc? Photo taken today in Aberdeen.
  10. Andrew Whitehouse

    Geoff Sample: A Birdsong Garden

    This week 'The Essay' on Radio 3 is by bird sound recordist Geoff Sample. It looks really good: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000m076
  11. Andrew Whitehouse

    Warbler, Aberdeen, Scotland

    This is a warbler I saw at Girdle Ness, Aberdeen today (at the Battery). It looks like a Willow Warbler, although I'm happy if someone can persuade me otherwise. Obviously it's a pretty freakish looking one though. We quite often get 'brown' looking Willow Warblers breeding around here but I've...
  12. Andrew Whitehouse

    Falcon, Hokkaido, Japan

    I'd be interested in thoughts on this falcon, seen today in eastern Hokkaido. Would like to know age and (potentially) subspecies too, if possible.
  13. Andrew Whitehouse

    Blue in Georgia

    Can anyone help with this Blue? It was seen at the Chachuna Reserve in SE Georgia (the country, not the US state) on 10th April.
  14. Andrew Whitehouse

    Skua, Aberdeen, Scotland

    Skuas are a bit hard, I find. I was pretty sure what this was in the field but checking these photos has made me have doubts. Part of the problem is working out whether this is a juvenile or an older bird, as it's in a slightly odd looking plumage. Bird was photographed (badly) in Aberdeen...
  15. Andrew Whitehouse

    Tern in Aberdeen, Scotland

    Anyone have any thoughts on this tern, photographed at Girdle Ness, Aberdeen today? It looks a bit 'interesting' to me but I'm not sure how far beyond 'interesting' it's possible to go. I have other photos but they generally show the same features.
  16. Andrew Whitehouse

    Southeast China Dec/Jan 2018/19

    I'm looking to do a trip to southeast China this winter. The dates aren't fixed yet but will be for around 15 days sometime between mid-December and mid-January. I can't do times outwith that period. There are two other people interested but we would like one or two more people to lower the...
  17. Andrew Whitehouse

    Sichuan Moth IDs

    Following a recent theme, I have some moth photos from Longcanggou, Sichuan in early June this year. We found large numbers of moths on the ground around the lights near the visitor centre. Not sure what the altitude is there but maybe 2000-2500 asl. I'll go through the moths one by one...
  18. Andrew Whitehouse

    Passerine, Sichuan

    This passerine was seen at Mengbishan in Sichuan on 12th June. It was in high altitude conifer forest (I guess around 3500m asl). It rather puzzled me and my experienced guide in the field. It's sort of vaguely like a Plain Mountain Finch but seems not quite right, and didn't really have the...
  19. Andrew Whitehouse

    Crossing the lines: Indonesia June/July 2017

    This summer I travelled to Indonesia for the first time. The main part of the trip was spent in Sulawesi and Halmahera, with four days at the end at Way Kambas National Park in southern Sumatra. I travelled throughout in a group of four (together with David Branagh, David Russell and Eugene...
  20. Andrew Whitehouse

    Maghreb Meanderings: Morocco and Western Sahara 2017

    From 7th - 24th April of this year I travelled around Morocco and Western Sahara, my first ever visit to north Africa. It was really good. I'll write up a fairly prosaic trip list style report together with a few photos. The itinerary was as follows: 7/4 Arrival in Casablanca from Aberdeen...
  21. Andrew Whitehouse

    Mammals, Western Sahara

    Here are some mammal IDs to check from Western Sahara. My thinking is that this is a Libyan Jird, but I'm slightly out of my depth on these sorts of things. Any confirmation or refutation gratefully received.
  22. Andrew Whitehouse

    Isn't it Good: Norwegian Weekend March 2017

    In the spirit of the recent 'Weekend only birding trips abroad' thread, I set out this weekend on a brief foreign birding jaunt of my own this weekend. I didn't travel all that far - just three hundred miles to the other side of the North Sea in southwestern Norway. The prospects were good...
  23. Andrew Whitehouse

    The eastern front: Japan and Taiwan Dec 16 - Jan 17

    I seem to be really bad at doing trip reports these days, which is a shame. Rather than continuing to be really bad at doing trip reports I thought I might try to get good at doing bad trip reports, which is what you're likely to get here. It will probably pretty dull without the thrill of the...
  24. Andrew Whitehouse

    Sulawesi and Halmahera June/July 2017

    I'm trying to put together an 18-day tour to Sulawesi and Halmahera this summer. Details aren't finalised yet but this is likely to be with Malia Tours. The start dates aren't finalised either but are likely to be in the second half of June. That would mean the tour finishing in early to...
  25. Andrew Whitehouse

    Acrocephalus warbler, Aberdeen

    Anyone any thoughts on the ID of this Acrocephalus warbler? Photos were taken this morning in Aberdeen, Scotland. I have more pictures but not sure if they show any other details. Let me know if there are any 'bits' that you'd like a closer view of though and I'll see if I can find anything.
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