Spot the errors quiz - UK (1 Viewer)

robinm

Registered User

• Sep 4, 2011

• #1

I took my grandchildren to Port Lympne Wildlife Park the other day (they loved it).

I was reading the glossy brochure when I got home and got to the page about native wildlife on the site (it is a huge place). However, the person who selected the photos wasn't too careful.

So "Spot the Errors" - there are several.

 

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simmojunior

Well-known member

• Sep 4, 2011

• #2

Treecreeper is not a Treecreeper but a new world creeper, the Lapwing is a Wattled Plover (?), the Kestrel is a Peregrine and the Redwing is a red-winged Blackbird. I'd also be very surprised if there are any Dunlin on site. I don't know much about Butterflies.

 

Jonny721

Well-known member

• Sep 4, 2011

• #3

The Brown Argus is some sort of Hairstreak

 

kennethwfd

Well-known member

• Dec 27, 2011

• #4

I thought it was a goldcrest not a Gold Crest

 

StuartReeves

Local rarity

• Dec 27, 2011

• #5

I think the "Tree Creeper" is one of the Australian treecreepers.

Edit: White-throated Treecreeper appears to fit the bill.

 

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Cristian Mihai

Cristian Mihai

• Dec 27, 2011

• #6

Also the Redwing it is not "our" Redwing, but an exotic one.

 

lou salomon

the birdonist

• Dec 27, 2011

• #7

it's a red-winged blackbird (NA species) and they sometimes just call it redwing. comes to show what the internet does with name and content. my hair stands on end when i see pics of birds taken from google images for e.g. the danube delta map and what you see are brown pelicans...

 

Last edited: Dec 27, 2011

StuartReeves

Local rarity

• Dec 27, 2011

• #8

I guess the problems have arisen as the pictures have been taken from stock photos and used without the benefit of local, expert knowledge. After all, the pictures of redwing, lapwing, and treecreeper do indeed show "redwing", "lapwing" and "treecreeper" just not the relevant species of Redwing, (Northern) Lapwing and (Eurasian) Treecreeper. Not sure how the hairstreak became a Brown Argus though.

 

Espen

Well-known member

• Dec 27, 2011

• #9

StuartReeves said:

I guess the problems have arisen as the pictures have been taken from stock photos and used without the benefit of local, expert knowledge. After all, the pictures of redwing, lapwing, and treecreeper do indeed show "redwing", "lapwing" and "treecreeper" just not the relevant species of Redwing, (Northern) Lapwing and (Eurasian) Treecreeper. Not sure how the hairstreak became a Brown Argus though.

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or how the peregrine became a kestrel!

 

Peter C.

...just zis guy, you know?

• Dec 30, 2011

• #10

lou salomon said:

it's a red-winged blackbird (NA species) and they sometimes just call it redwing.

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Oooo ... and that drives my maaad... |=@|

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