Who knows their bits? (1 Viewer)

lou salomon

the birdonist

• Jun 12, 2005

• #81

ok, red necked then - it has a red neck! (you won't have expected us to id r-n. nightjar from that eye!)
but thanks to andrew whitehouse for his red backed shrike...

 

Jos Stratford

Eastern Exile

Staff member

• Jun 12, 2005

• #82

lou salomon said:

ok, red necked then - it has a red neck! (you won't have expected us to id r-n. nightjar from that eye!)

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From the eye, I was happy to accept 'Nightjar' as the correct answer . In reality it's not a European species!

 

Jos Stratford

Eastern Exile

Staff member

• Jun 12, 2005

• #83

Clouseau said:

Here! What's the bird in your avatar? Is it a Nutcracker? A cat? Wottizit? LOL!

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She could well be looking at a Nutcracker - get them flitting over occasionally in late summer or winter

 

lou salomon

the birdonist

• Jun 12, 2005

• #84

Jos Stratford said:

From the eye, I was happy to accept 'Nightjar' as the correct answer . In reality it's not a European species!

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i give up. anyone else with eyes on tropical/nearctic/oriental etc. nightjars - i don't look'em up all, now. or tell at least a continent to look for. :h?:

 

Jacana

Will Jones

• Jun 13, 2005

• #85

neschiar nightjar??

 

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Jurij Hanžel

Registrirani uporabnik

• Jun 13, 2005

• #86

jacana said:

neschiar nightjar??

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LOL! o

I would hazard a guess that this nightjar is from Asia.

 

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Jos Stratford

Eastern Exile

Staff member

• Jun 14, 2005

• #87

Jurij Hanžel said:

I would hazard a guess that this nightjar is from Asia.

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Correct ...not sure I'd be able to identify from head only without knowing locality either

 

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Jurij Hanžel

Registrirani uporabnik

• Jun 14, 2005

• #88

Hmm, you've been to Sri Lanka, right?

 

Jos Stratford

Eastern Exile

Staff member

• Jun 14, 2005

• #89

Jurij Hanžel said:

Hmm, you've been to Sri Lanka, right?

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Correct, this narrows it down quite a bit ...but I have also been to India and Nepal too.

 

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Jurij Hanžel

Registrirani uporabnik

• Jun 15, 2005

• #90

The possibilities are:
Great Eared-Nightjar Eurostopodus macrotis
Gray Nightjar Caprimulgus indicus
Sykes's Nightjar Caprimulgus mahrattensis
Large-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus macrurus
Jerdon's Nightjar Caprimulgus atripennis
Indian Nightjar Caprimulgus asiaticus
Savanna Nightjar Caprimulgus affinis

It is one of those, right??

 

Jacana

Will Jones

• Jun 15, 2005

• #91

jerdon's nightjar

 

Jos Stratford

Eastern Exile

Staff member

• Jun 15, 2005

• #92

Jurij Hanžel said:

The possibilities are:
Great Eared-Nightjar Eurostopodus macrotis
Gray Nightjar Caprimulgus indicus
Sykes's Nightjar Caprimulgus mahrattensis
Large-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus macrurus
Jerdon's Nightjar Caprimulgus atripennis
Indian Nightjar Caprimulgus asiaticus
Savanna Nightjar Caprimulgus affinis

It is one of those, right??

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Yes it is!

 

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Jurij Hanžel

Registrirani uporabnik

• Jun 15, 2005

• #93

OK, I can't get any further than this because I don't have the books and don't like using Google for bird ID.

 

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alcedo.atthis

Well-known member

• Jun 15, 2005

• #94

"OK, I can't get any further than this because I don't have the books and don't like using Google for bird ID."

Will this help :-

Birds of India

http://www.kolkatabirds.com/birdsind.htm

Scroll down the list and you will find photos of them.

Regards

Malky

 

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Jurij Hanžel

Registrirani uporabnik

• Jun 16, 2005

• #95

Thanks so much, Malky!!

 

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Jurij Hanžel

Registrirani uporabnik

• Jun 16, 2005

• #96

I had a look at the photos there, the closest I could find was a Savanna Nightjar. I couldn't see the white moustachial stripe (is this the right term?) on the photo at Birds of India, though.

 

Jos Stratford

Eastern Exile

Staff member

• Jun 16, 2005

• #97

Photographed by lying on my stomach and wiggling up to one in the middle of the night just outside Yala National Park in Sri Lanka. Had a rather big (not seemingly too happy) Elephant blocking off my walk back to my motorbike afterwards!

 

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Allen S. Moore

Well-known member

• Jun 17, 2005

• #98

Jos Stratford said:

Photographed by lying on my stomach and wiggling up to one in the middle of the night just outside Yala National Park in Sri Lanka. Had a rather big (not seemingly too happy) Elephant blocking off my walk back to my motorbike afterwards!

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Lying on your stomach in the middle of the night, it is as well that the Elephant did not have somewhere to go at that time!
It sort of reminds me of a potentially dangerous time watching choughs here in the Isle of Man. I had spotted a small flock of choughs from the road, and climbed over a gate into the next field to peer over the hedge. After a while, I heard the noise of a liquid running behind me, and there was a bull urinating as it stood about 10-20 metres away from me in the same field that I was in. Fortunately, he was standing contentedly with a harem of cows, and did not go for me. I suppose that he was happy enough to be surrounded by a bevy of beauties, in his eyes, obviously, not mine!
Allen

 

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Ghostly Vision

Well-known member

• Jun 17, 2005

• #99

Can't decide whether this has been identified yet, but if it was Yala, and you were on your belly, I guess it is Indian Nightjar then.

Elephants kill more people in SL than tarantulas don't they?

GV

 

Jacana

Will Jones

• Jun 17, 2005

• #100

i would say so, very few people die from tarantula bites, especially now when there are anti-serums on the market