Google Street View birding (1 Viewer)

Nutcracker · Mar 31, 2020

[Pied] Avocet flanked by 2 Common Shelduck, RSPB Pagham Harbour:

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.760...4!1sbRDSH6y9mjGKQ0nrLzXLrw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Nutcracker · Mar 31, 2020

Deb Burhinus said:
I’m not sure I’d call on that image lol but wt ‘eck You can see more on your monitor I think than I can on my tablet -

True I've got a decent large monitor!

Deb Burhinus said:
what do reckon with this then? Stonechat? Wheatear sp? ...

https://goo.gl/maps/3xQ6YzSvV4PKjhsx9

Too long-tailed for either of those; with that dark face, my money's on Barn Swallow :t:

Nutcracker · Mar 31, 2020

And 3 Black-tailed Godwits, also at RSPB Pagham Harbour:
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.760...4!1sB-C65IMDLSHuAaLELEtSxA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Deb Burhinus · Mar 31, 2020

care to put your money on these?

(I thought possibly Black Kite at first but dunno maybe just crows :-O)

https://goo.gl/maps/n8W5KwMCg52Suvyi9

jurek · Mar 31, 2020

Egyptian Geese (with Greylags to the right)
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.940...2.20874&pitch=0&thumbfov=100!7i16384!8i8192\\

Great Cormorant
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.941...4!1sbCB7OHPDUkewX08OiZ107A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Eastern Great Egret
https://www.google.com/maps/@13.158...4!1sK29oZHCYbjM2KC21VHM4Kw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

I could not find flamingos on Lake Nakuru. Pak Thale in Thailand must have been filmed in summer, because no wader in sight. Around Kampala, where I remember seeing goodies like Great Blue Turacos and Black-and-white Hornbills from the car, I could not find a single bird. So much about cyber-dips.

I had an idea. Could somebody make an automatic software to recognize (not necessarily ID) birds on photos? Since Google could make an automatic software to recognize and mask human faces, this should be possible. Besides having fun on Google maps, it could revolutionize field surveys, if one couples it with some other clever technology. Imagine, for example, having a bird census on an open sea done by a drone flying a pre-determined route and sending a set of bird photos to a human observer.

Nutcracker · Mar 31, 2020

Egyptian Goose (with goslings), Serpentine, London:
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.504...4!1sx9UhQv3j5guGnL6R6RbEYQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Nutcracker · Mar 31, 2020

Deb Burhinus said:
care to put your money on these? (I thought possibly Black Kite at first but dunno maybe just crows :-O)

https://goo.gl/maps/n8W5KwMCg52Suvyi9

Yep, Black Kites, for definite :t:

Nutcracker · Mar 31, 2020

jurek said:
Egyptian geese (with Greylags to the right)
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.9408257,5.0551229,3a,15y,147.01h,78.59t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sprDoY80Ac1ZHzWb9Yn5pJw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DprDoY80Ac1ZHzWb9Yn5pJw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D282.20874%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192\\

Great Cormorant
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.941...4!1sbCB7OHPDUkewX08OiZ107A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Eastern Great Egret
https://www.google.com/maps/@13.158...4!1sK29oZHCYbjM2KC21VHM4Kw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Good set! IOC treat EGE as a subspecies of GE, but who knows for the future!

jurek said:
I could not find flamingos on Lake Nakuru. Pak Thale in Thailand must have been filmed in summer, because no wader in sight. Around Kampala, where I remember seeing goodies like Great Blue Turacos and Black-and-white Hornbills from the car, I could not find a single bird. So much about cyber-dips.

I had the same with Holy Island causeway (Northumbs) - 2 km of glorious tidal mud, should be full of birds - not one!

jurek said:
I had an idea. Could somebody make an automatic software to recognize (not necessarily ID) birds on photos? Since Google could make an automatic software to recognize and mask human faces, this should be possible. Besides having fun on Google maps, it could revolutionize field surveys, if one couples it with some other clever technology. Imagine, for example, having a bird census on an open sea done by a drone flying a pre-determined route and sending a set of bird photos to a human observer.

That'd be cheating 3

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Deb Burhinus · Mar 31, 2020

how are we doing with the gull tally?

https://goo.gl/maps/xvDn7TyQEdW7k3ri9

Nutcracker · Mar 31, 2020

Deb Burhinus said:
how are we doing with the gull tally?

https://goo.gl/maps/xvDn7TyQEdW7k3ri9

Yellow-legged Gull; already got it, but this is a far better pic (one of the best yet of anything!) :t:

Nutcracker · Mar 31, 2020

Deb Burhinus said:
- I think there’s Little Black Cormorant in the Ibis link sitting on top of the statues

Missed seeing this post somehow! Yes, got them now :t:

Deb Burhinus · Mar 31, 2020

Ok I’m off to Georgia - cu later!

Nutcracker · Mar 31, 2020

Current total 87, unless I've missed anything! Also if anyone can confirm any of the ones in the end section 'awaiting verification', please :t:

Red-legged Partridge
Common Pheasant
Mute Swan
Black Swan
Whooper Swan
Pink-footed Goose
Greylag Goose
Canada Goose
Common Shelduck
Paradise Shelduck
Egyptian Goose
Mallard
Pacific Black Duck
New Zealand Scaup
Hardhead
Common Eider
Goosander
Common Swift
Rock Dove [feral pigeon]
Woodpigeon
Collared Dove
Australasian Swamphen
Common Moorhen
Dusky Moorhen
Eurasian Coot
Greater Flamingo
Eurasian Oystercatcher
Variable Oystercatcher
Pied Avocet
Black-winged Stilt
Pied Stilt
Northern Lapwing
Masked Lapwing
Black-tailed Godwit
Common Sandpiper
Willet
Common Redshank
Black-legged Kittiwake
Black-headed Gull
Silver Gull [Silver & Red-billed sspp]
Laughing Gull
Common Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Kelp Gull
Western Gull
European Herring Gull
American Herring Gull
Yellow-legged Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Forster's Tern
Arctic Tern
Black Guillemot
White Stork
Pygmy Cormorant
Little Black Cormorant
Great Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Australian White Ibis
American White Ibis
Western Cattle Egret
Grey Heron
Great Egret
White-faced Heron
Snowy Egret
Little Egret
Griffon Vulture
Black Kite
Red Kite
Hen Harrier
Bald Eagle
Common Buzzard
Western Osprey
Common Kestrel
Lesser Kestrel
Australian Magpie
Magpie-lark
Rufous Treepie
Eurasian Magpie
Western Jackdaw
Carrion Crow
Hooded Crow
Common Raven
Barn Swallow
Common Starling
Common Blackbird
Common Chaffinch
Red-winged Blackbird

Awaiting verification:
Slavonian Grebe (post #62)
Falcon (sp.), Bangladesh (post #66)
Great Thrush, Colombia (post #65)

jurek · Mar 31, 2020

Cinereous Harrier
https://www.google.com/maps/@-43.24...4!1sFPIUCUf1kMhtjUKD65vqlA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Coscoroba Swan (and unidentifable ducks and/or coots) from Argentina
https://www.google.com/maps/@-43.24...4!1sav8c0_JYtiEwishFqktJ8w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

@Deb Burhinus
Definitely Black Kites when you zoom!

3Italianbirders · Mar 31, 2020

Deb Burhinus said:
care to put your money on these? (I thought possibly Black Kite at first but dunno maybe just crows :-O)

https://goo.gl/maps/n8W5KwMCg52Suvyi9

shape right for BK, also in southern Spain highly probable?

Nutcracker · Mar 31, 2020

jurek said:
Cinereous Harrier
https://www.google.com/maps/@-43.24...4!1sFPIUCUf1kMhtjUKD65vqlA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Coscoroba Swan (and unidentifable ducks and/or coots) from Argentina
https://www.google.com/maps/@-43.24...4!1sav8c0_JYtiEwishFqktJ8w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

@Deb Burhinus
Definitely Black Kites when you zoom!

That Cinereous Harrier is a corker! Good to get Coscoroba too :t:

Nutcracker · Mar 31, 2020

Pretty sure I've got an Alpine Swift here - by the Museum in Sofia, Bulgaria. They breed here, tho' so do Pallid and Common as well. Thoughts, anyone?
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.698...aoYgUTBw!2e0!5s20180701T000000!7i13312!8i6656

Edit: this one's Alpine, next frame along; can see the white belly :t:
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.698...aoYgUTBw!2e0!5s20180701T000000!7i13312!8i6656

Warixenjalka · Mar 31, 2020

Double-crested Cormorant was already, but I find quite good pic from it. o

https://goo.gl/maps/k9YB7nsvgMQNZowr6

Stephen Patmore · Mar 31, 2020

Greater flamingo
House Martin

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.128...ata=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sHZcI4xt_dTZ3qW8sWXH45g!2e0

Nutcracker · Mar 31, 2020

Long shot, but dipped - that sandspit in the middle of the Danube is a good loafing spot for Dalmatian Pelicans (it's where I ticked them 8-P)

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.796...4!1sv4kyrGnnIaqYmFwHnyPg6A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

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