Lost birds - the Ghostly 2008 quiz. Register now! (2 Viewers)

[postcardcv]

To maybe encourage the last few stragglers to put in answers, I now post all 15 picturres with the bird highlighted. It is clear from the guesses that some people have missed some of the birds....

looking at that at least I found the birds even though I fear I may have mis-ID all of them!

 

[Ghostly Vision]

Here are the first five answers, being:

1. Sedge warbler
2. Avocet
3. Reed warbler
4. Yellow wagtail
5. Semi-collared flycatcher (can't understand why no-one got this; adult female with sing pattern clearly showing!)

 

[Hotspur]

Rats was torn between semi collared and pied

 

[Ghostly Vision]

6-10 being:

6. Wryneck - a lot of people completely missed the bird and htought the bit of wood at the front was it!
7. Redwing
8. Fieldfare
9. Black-throated thrush
10. Rock pipit

That fieldfare could easily have been a Kestrel species....

 

[Ghostly Vision]

And finally 11-15:

11. Grey hypocolius
12. Skylark
13. Stone curlew
14. Black redstart
15. Little owl

Congratulations to ...............

 

[Ghostly Vision]

...Dan Pointon and Xenospiza, who both got 13 out of 15.

Notably, Andrew Whitehouse and James Andrewes both got 12, and on 11 were Jurij Hanzel and Nick Derry.

Well done to all of you - these were extremely hard and in one case impossible, it seems.

Now, as we have three pairs of scores, I open up the tie-break to all six of the above named.


First one tomorrow.............

 

[dantheman]

lol, and thanks for not posting my score up GV.

They make a bit more sense now, although I still prefer my choices for 7 and 8. (I think I was misled into going for the most exotic combo option I could )

 

[Jurij Hanžel]

We can't climb up the scoreboard with our answers to the tie-break pics, right? We'll only be involved in three separate head-to-head contests, won't we?

 

[Ghostly Vision]

Hi Jurij,

Yes, the tie-break is to establish who is 1st & 2nd out of Dan and Xeno, who is 3rd and fourth out of Andrew and James, and who is 5th and 6th out of you and Nick.

When I've found a suitable picture I'll post it later!

Sean

 

[Ghostly Vision]

For the six top spotters here is tie-break 1. Will reveal answer and results when all six have answered.

 

[dan pointon]

What. the. f**k is that!!!

 

[Ghostly Vision]

Trying to lull Xeno into a false sense of security??

S

 

[Xenospiza]

I just had a look. There shouldn't be too many possibilities... but what's the right one?

 

[lou salomon]

the one of few possibilities i thought it was isn't known for hanging around in willows, but nobody's asking me anyway

 

[Ghostly Vision]

Still waiting for tie-break answer from Juriz and Dan before I can reveal the answer..

 

[Ghostly Vision]

Well, here is the answer to the tie-break, and two of the six top spotters got it right.

As such, we now have a winner in the form of DAN POINTON, the wonderboy!

We also have a fifth place in the form of Jurij Hanzel.

Well done both of you - there were (as Jurij spotted) in fact two birds in the picture - both were AZURE-WINGED MAGPIES.

Here are the "reveal" pics for the tie break picture. Also, the tie-break 2 for James and Andrew to sort out third place.

The quiz is open to all to have a guess just for fun; if you top sixers also want a go, we can maybe see who gets the most out of 18....there's one more after this.

 

[dantheman]

Well done Dan, everyone else as well

GV, is there any chance of telling us how many people got each of the original 15 birds correct? - this would be an indication of how difficult each photo was . . . and allow people (well me for starters) to see how we got on compared with the cream of the BF quizmasters. . . It'd also be interesting to see what the alternative answers for the birds were as well . . . maybe still keeping it anonymous?(!)

Cheers, dan

 

[Ghostly Vision]

Hi Dan,

I purposefully didn't publicly post scores and answers, as I don't think that's fair on people who didn't get as many. I took it that everyone would know their own score and be able to compare it with the winners and runners up.

What I will do is list each one with how many people got it right. The second most popular answer is shown next to them:

1. 9/21 Yellow-browed, Pallas's warbler, Chiffchaff, Bluthroat all with 2
2. 12/21 Goosander with 3
3. 11/21 Marsh warbler, Whitethroat 3 each
4. 12/19 Water pipit with 2
5. 0/20 Most (14/20) went for Pied fly, with a few for Brown, Collard and RB Fly.
6. 14/20 Various by people who were identifying the piece of wood!
7. 7/18 Skylark with 4
8. 13/18 Kestrel/Lesser kes with 2 each
9. 7/17 Various
10. 6/17 Water pipit with 8!
11. 9/15 Various
12. 7/17 Short-toed lark with 4
13. 12/16 Various
14. 15/17 n/a
15. 16/17 n/a

 

[Ghostly Vision]

Here's the answer to tie break 2.

No correct answers. Wilson's phalarope it was.

Here's the very final one, taken in Siena, Tuscany last May from the Hotel window.

I'm going back there next week for my birthday and there is a very good chance of me finally unblocking Wallcreeper on my birthday at a Nature reserve nearby. Wish me luck!

Sean

 

[dantheman]

Well, I can see a Crane . . .

(And cheers for posting the above list of scores)

Have a good trip, and good luck!