Can u help me Id this please (1 Viewer)

Lol

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• Apr 26, 2004

• #1

Seen this morning at Lavernock Point - South wales, Uk.

Loud single note call - from top of tree. Red undertail coverts not show in this (rather optimistic) distant shot - and the crown was more obvious than it appears here. Size between Greenfinch and Blackbird.

 

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gthang

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• Apr 26, 2004

• #2

Looks like a bulbul of some sort. But i wouldn't know anyway. Never been to the UK.

 

CJW

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• Apr 26, 2004

• #3

Look like a Red-vented Bulbul, Lol. Presumably an escape.

EDIT: I meant to say Red-whiskered.

 

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Joern Lehmhus

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• Apr 26, 2004

• #4

Hey, that´s a bulbul- an escape !!
Sorry, but without literature I cannot give you which Bulbul species (think it is an asian one though)-but no doubt somebody else will do so soon.

Jörn

 

gthang

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• Apr 26, 2004

• #5

are you laughing or talking? LOL!!!

 

gthang

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• Apr 26, 2004

• #6

Nope, certainly not a Red-Vented Bulbul.
All bulbuls to me look the same, except the Red-Whiskered Bulbul, which is very similar to the one in the photo.

 

Lol

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• Apr 26, 2004

• #7

Thanks for the very useful pointers - I have just checked a few images and Red-whiskered Bulbul fits very nicely - thanks

...presumably an escape

(Lol is an abbreviated form of Lawrence)

 

cuckooroller

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• Apr 26, 2004

• #8

Pycnonotus jocosus

 

gthang

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• Apr 26, 2004

• #9

Yep that's Red-Whiskered bulbul, lol!