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ZEISS DTI thermal imaging cameras. For more discoveries at night, and during the day.

what's hit is history.... (1 Viewer)

... what's missed is mystery.

Absolutely horrible, miserable day in Trieste. Cold, driving rain with snow up in the Karst above the city. Yuck. Not a lot of news on the living bird front, though there is a Pink-footed Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus) with the Greylag Geese (A. anser). Sixth record for Italy (if accepted).

Didn't make a lot of progress today. Lots of odd weaver birds and no really good book to help me sort them out. I may put away all the Ploceidae until I get a decent book to sort them out. There are 117 species and a lot of them are very similar.

Anyway. Three more birds today:

First is a rather forlorn-looking New World Oriole / Blackbird type. About Golden Oriole in size. I've no idea:

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Scarlet-headed Blackbird, (Amblyramphus holosericeus)

Second is a brightly-coloured tanager type. I think it MIGHT be a Chestnut-bellied Mountain-tanager (Delothraupis castaneoventris) but the picture I have in the book is so poor that I can't be sure. Sparrow-sized.

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Fawn-breasted Tanager (Pipraeidea melanota)

The third and final bird is a bit confusing. It looks very familiar but is very grubby. It's about the size of a Eurasian Jay or a bit smaller and the label says 'Garrulus' 'Indie?'. I wondered if it might be a Laughing Thrush Garrulax of some kind, or a bulbul.

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Chinese Laughing-thrush (Garrulax chinensis)

More tomorrow.
 
My guesses for the first two:

New World Blackbird: Scarlet-headed Blackbird, (Amblyramphus holosericeus)

Tanager: Fawn-breasted Tanager (Pipraeidea melanonota)

Dalcio
 
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