... 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:
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.
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.
Chinese Laughing-thrush (Garrulax chinensis)
More tomorrow.
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:
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.
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.
More tomorrow.