DanielDoer
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Thanks for that interesting link, Thorsten. Hadn't realised yet how lucky they were on the Madeira pelagics!
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2017 Western Palearctic Big Year (2 Viewers)
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Thanks for that interesting link, Thorsten. Hadn't realised yet how lucky they were on the Madeira pelagics!
DanielDoer
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There is also a Dotterel in The Netherlands, supported by a Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
The latter would be a species I would go for directly! And forget about PR dates at Falsterbo
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Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Blimey Daniel, I bet you'd run out in the middle of your own wedding if a rare turned up within range 8-P
Paul Chapman
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Even I turned my pager off for the ceremony and the agreement was that I would stay for at least the photos. (Thankfully nothing broke all day.) A pager did go off during the ceremony and the vicar leant forward and said, is that one of your twitchers? To which my wife had to respond by saying, no that's my cousin, he is a haematologist and he is on call! B
Farnboro John
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My wedding was while the Green Heron was at Messingham and I needed it. I had a go and missed it three days before (much angst and Marion lying to her parents about where we were) - various people turned up at the wedding enthusing about having ticked it, Tringbirder shrugged it off as he'd seen the Sunk Island bird, no pressure eh!!!
We connected en route from Farnborough to Penzance for a honeymoon on Scilly. No, its not exactly on the way....:t:
John
DanielDoer
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I forgot the important last part of the first sentence: "... if I were them and would be doing a Big Year!"
And of course I left nobody alone on my wedding
PedroNicolau
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Ok, they've removed the Ruppell's Vulture tick. Dick Forsman has confirmed it was a regular Vulture.
They've also un-ticked the AHG, yet they've added Baird's Sandpiper.
They've also un-ticked the AHG, yet they've added Baird's Sandpiper.
John Cantelo
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So not quite as fortunate as it first seemed! Moral of the story - don't take any photos!
>]Ok, they've removed the Ruppell's Vulture tick. Dick Forsman has confirmed it was a regular Vulture.
This puts them in a tricky position, as they now need to decide whether to return to Iberia for Ruppell's Vulture or accept it as missed. If they hadn't ticked this misidentified bird they would presumably have searched until they found a real Ruppells; instead they left Spain and may have to return separately. Perhaps this is (almost) their first major cock-up.
This puts them in a tricky position, as they now need to decide whether to return to Iberia for Ruppell's Vulture or accept it as missed. If they hadn't ticked this misidentified bird they would presumably have searched until they found a real Ruppells; instead they left Spain and may have to return separately. Perhaps this is (almost) their first major cock-up.
Simon Wates
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...or they could come to Sagres in mid-October or so and see one of the 3-4 Rüppell's hanging around then, most years at least.
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lewis20126
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Today is apparently 'Vulture awareness day'. For birders this must surely mean brushing up on the key features of immature Ruppell's Griffons, compared to the commoner resident species. :t:
cheers, alan
Captain_of_Crunch
YVdpep_re64
I think the Egypt episode was much worse.
One over the Cazalla raptor point at Tarifa today
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Paul Chapman
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What are the features that show their bird as a Griffon? Head and neck? Underwing pattern?
http://andaluciabirdsociety.org/ind...about-birds/116-rueppells-vulture-id-headache
Many thanks
http://andaluciabirdsociety.org/ind...about-birds/116-rueppells-vulture-id-headache
Many thanks
Simon Wates
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Features per-se aside, I'm always shocked when good light illuminates a Rüppell's underparts - just a very different colour than Griffons warmer tones. I think half the problem is that the underparts are often in shadow and things get more complex than they need to. Also,if the upperparts are seen in anything but good light from a good angle, their milk chocolate colour and the faint contrast between flight feather and coverts isn't obvious either. So I think John Cantelo's comment is pretty relevant as on a view of a potential Rüppell's it could be well worth it to keep the bins or scope on it while on view - to see it from various angles before attempting photos My 2 cents anyway...
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Paul Chapman
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Simon
Many thanks. That is useful. One of those classic ones for me of only having been for an adult which was sitting in exactly the place that I was told that it was going to be sitting - so in reality, I learned very little!
All the best
Captain_of_Crunch
YVdpep_re64
So, the next birding will be in Britain and Ireland from the 10th? Looking at the forecast, they should fly to Shannon a day earlier to get in some good seawatching at the Bridges of Ross on Sunday and Monday as conditions look really good. Can anyone relay that info to them? I hope to there myself on Sunday.
DMW
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Realistically, what are they likely to see from an Irish headland that they haven't already seen? I think they might still need Sooty Shearwater, but anything else?
