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  1. lockbreeze926

    Vulture ID - Desert National Park, India

    Looks like it, with Cinereous and Red-headed to the right.
  2. lockbreeze926

    Started using Merlin's Sound ID, holy smokes it's a game changer

    Ah, Bovis Transcampo. That's a shame - you'd be hoping for a Bovis Infrequens. Much less common, obviously.
  3. lockbreeze926

    Presumed Yellow-Browed Warbler.

    ...xanthochroistic...expialidocious
  4. lockbreeze926

    I Didn't Think I Could Do it!!!

    I don't know anything about eBird, but my reading of that screenshot is that it lists how many checklists people have completed, not how many species they have seen
  5. lockbreeze926

    Mystery bird, Colorado front range

    One thing we have had drummed into us on here is that size is very difficult to judge in isolation. I am just trying to interpret a variety of factors in a description of something I didn’t see.
  6. lockbreeze926

    Mystery bird, Colorado front range

    Sounds in the general area of a Bluebird species, vaguely.
  7. lockbreeze926

    i took it today.I took it with a 400 mm lens. I think the species is corvus cornix

    Yes, can't see anything other than Hooded Crow.
  8. lockbreeze926

    Crane, Heron, Egret?

    I think by far the commonest usage of "GWH" is in relation to the Florida morph of Great Egret. I'd agree adding the word "white" to the species name serves no purpose. More here - How to Identify White Herons
  9. lockbreeze926

    ID please. Location Florida, USA

    Yes, definitely a Sora. Have not heard of any being located in a residential pool - it's a bird of marsh and swamp. Guess the injury would explain that.
  10. lockbreeze926

    Luxulyan valley, Cornwall, UK. Is this just a wood pigeon?

    Juveniles do not have the white neck ring until the spring after hatch year.
  11. lockbreeze926

    World Cassowary Day

    I see that, for some unfathomable reason, today is World Cassowary Day. On that thin pretext, here is one such, from northern Queensland, that I encountered last year (albeit on an ordinary day).
  12. lockbreeze926

    Night feeding birds

    Quite a few species of shorebirds can and do feed at night. Here's a previous reply on Bird Forum from Andrea Collins on 1/1/20 (Happy New Year!) - "Some waders do indeed feed at night at times, presumably partly due to tidal cycles and partly due to variations in the availability of prey...
  13. lockbreeze926

    New home? Help me identify this little bird so excited my first potential tenant since install in June? Fingers crossed it's going to be 🏡

    It certainly is a Carolina Wren.
  14. lockbreeze926

    Story books or folk tales about Herons?

    If you cast the species net slightly wider (but still focus on tall waders), you have the Japanese folk tale of The Crane Wife. As usual with folk tales, there are many variations and re-imaginings. Here's one - The Crane Girl by Curtis Manley.
  15. lockbreeze926

    Which Vidua species? SLNP, Zambia

    Never been to Zambia but my first impression was that it reminded me of one of the more southerly buntings, given the very clear headstripes. However, having had a look at a field guide, your call is much better for throat/breast etc so I'd go with Eastern paradise whydah.
  16. lockbreeze926

    For fun: Here's a wordle-inspired daily Bird image guessing game (birdiegame.net)

    birdie 🦃 #849: 🟥🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ https://birdiegame.net/ Well, it was going to be one of two, just not the first one I picked. (Also - have just discovered that this game has a sound component! How's that for poor observational achievement?)
  17. lockbreeze926

    Cooper's Hawk ?? Idaho (US)

    I would tend to go with Cooper's. Structurally, it looks quite bulky, too much so for a Sharp-shinned; the tail seems longish, arguably rounded and its white tip broad enough. It is perhaps in transitional plumage, since it has largely morphed to grey feathering, but some rufous tips remain...
  18. lockbreeze926

    Brazil Flycatcher

    The potential RMF has very clear rusty/brown flight feathers. I would definitely call it as you suggest.
  19. White-bellied Woodstar 2, male

    White-bellied Woodstar 2, male

    Tiny as a bee, a hummingbird beauty. At 1/400, the wings are barely even a blur.
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  20. lockbreeze926

    Hawk ID Please USA Thanks

    You can actually see a bit of the red tail.
  21. lockbreeze926

    Comment by 'lockbreeze926' in media 'Adult goshawk'

    Oh, that's beautiful and superbly framed.
  22. lockbreeze926

    For fun: Here's a wordle-inspired daily Bird image guessing game (birdiegame.net)

    Considering I have about 20 photos of this species, this was unimpressive, with three complete blanks. Lucky the fourth picture was a gimme. birdie 🦢 #806: 🟥🟥🟥🟩⬛⬛ https://birdiegame.net/
  23. lockbreeze926

    Kenya rolls out poison in bid to cull a million crows

    I lost count of the many and varied issues raised by this particular situation. Beyond identifying the complexity, I have no fuel left (it's past midnight) to figure out what my own view(s) might (or in other respects, might not) be. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c999n2nyvwlo
  24. lockbreeze926

    Black Kite? Central France

    Certainly seem to be Black Kite. It's a long time since I visited central France, but they were certainly common in many locations - had over 50 on a rubbish tip near La Rochelle on a chance visit. Never saw any fishing, though - the only live predation I saw was of a roadside rat.
  25. lockbreeze926

    For fun: Here's a wordle-inspired daily Bird image guessing game (birdiegame.net)

    birdie 🦢 #803: 🟥🟥🟥🟨🟩⬛ https://birdiegame.net/ Flailing about then got lucky in the end. Never seen one of those - I assume they're tricky and local.
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