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Peregrine France Race? (1 Viewer)

rosbifs

rosbifs

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Spotted over campsite nr Gruissan.

It looked massive but then it was fairly close! What a bird but can a race be assigned. I'm pretty sure its not a Brookei because of the facial markings - lot of white...
 

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Looks pretty normal to me - so why not nominate peregrinus?

Or is someone holding Peregrine races, like pigeon races? 8-P
 
But on the other hand:

densely spotted all the way up to the upper breast, and with the pinkish/buffish ground colour so typical of the local subspecies.

Peter
 
Peter

So most likely the one I thought it wasn't - Brookei!!!! I saw the colour but I thought it looked more like blood, if that makes sense. I was looking at the 'hood' which I thought, for Brookei, would be more extensive.

Thanks for help.

Rosbifs
 
Nutcracker said:
Looks pretty normal to me - so why not nominate peregrinus?

Or is someone holding Peregrine races, like pigeon races? 8-P
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That is something I would like to see - Peregrine races!

As for the race of the bird I was intrigued to see if possible to assign - its rare I'm able that get a good picture! I know there is Brookei and peregrinus but as osais the hood looks small for the former.m and it looked big...
 
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P.Sunesen said:
But on the other hand:

densely spotted all the way up to the upper breast, and with the pinkish/buffish ground colour so typical of the local subspecies.
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Which subspecies does that mean? North side of the Pyrenees, it's mapped as peregrinus, with brookei in the Iberian Peninsula south of the Pyrenees.
 
The LPO wrote to me, because I had posted the photo on faune-lr, to say that this was adult female peligrinus. Apparently, there are only 2 or 3 confirmed historic records of brookei in this area....
 
rosbifs said:
The LPO wrote to me, because I had posted the photo on faune-lr, to say that this was adult female peligrinus. Apparently, there are only 2 or 3 confirmed historic records of brookei in this area....
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And this would be the very first 'peligrinus'.......:eek!:



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