PedroNicolau
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Hmmm not sure it's the best one. Corvo has had better seasons (but with less birders).
Maffong
And another American Robin up the Caldera yesterday on Corvo.
Didn't they leave a day before the best ever Nearctic landbird day at one location in the WP ever?
All the best
Hmmm not sure it's the best one. Corvo has had better seasons (but with less birders).
Sounds like a euphimism!..
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Two sensible targets at the moment I believe: Stejneger's Stonechat in the Netherlands or Northern Shrike in Sweden
Do you really mean that there is an American Northern Shrike in Sweden? Because they have already got "our" Northern Shrike in March. How do you determine the American from Eurasian Northern Shrike in field?
Where are they??
It actually looks fairly distinct. And I actually mean the American Northern Shrike. Our european one would now be called Great Grey Shrike
See here for the recent record
And here for ID features
And here
They're basically screwed now. Winds not looking favourable for the foreseeable, so they might even be better off just going somewhere left field, like Israel, Kuwait or Azerbaijan. Don't think they're going to miss a lot in NW Europe.
According to your first link the Swedish bird belongs to subspecies borealis or sibiricus. Any idea if the bird from Öland is of eastern or nearctic origin? As far as I have understood borealis (distribution in nw Canada mainly) is the nominate subspecies of the newly split species, isn't it?
What a great bird! I would love to find something like that here!
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Is this right? I have never seen any Great Grey Shrike that would look this sandy brown and would love to see a photo of one. Can anybody provide a link?
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