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......and I thought it was just for Puffins!!!! (1 Viewer)
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WalterRayle
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Nearly as bad as an Irish Peatland Conservation Council poster having an image of a Hummingbird Hawkmoth on a 'Butterflies of Ireland' information board, a Hampshire County Council 'National Insect Week' poster displaying a Spider and the Forestry Commission 'information and learning' panels at Boldrewood in the New Forest telling us that ALL ladybirds eat aphids and ALL bees die after stinging, despite displaying an image of a male bumblebee which is unable to sting anyway. Not enough diligence in the world these days.
Farnboro John
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Nobody doubts that - but check out the pictured terns and identify them to species.....
John
Sangahyando
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Legend has it that there is an undocumented colony of Royal Terns on the island. Perhaps we should investigate, after all, it could be that they also have penguins and elephant seals breeding there....
Cork City 2004. A new info board appears advertising about 35 bird species that could be seen on a walk round the estuary. 30 of the birds pictured were the American equivalent of their European counterparts. Thus the Common Kingfisher was a Belted Kingfisher, the Little Grebe was a Pied-billed Grebe, the Oystercatcher an American one, Teal was Green-winged etc. There were two pictures of (American) Peregrines, one labelled Merlin, one labelled Kestrel. I think they got one out of the 35 captioned correctly, but I can't remember which one it was now.
WalterRayle
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Wasn't there also an advertising campaign for the city of Birmingham (UK) set up by the local council that used images of its American namesake?
Nutcracker
Stop Brexit!
Nothing wrong there then, we all know Ireland is the premier location for transatlantic American vagrants . . . o
Tiraya
San Diego CA
An information board in far southern California had a great grey owl labelled as "great horned owl". I'm not sure they've even made it this far south as a vagrant.
I remember correcting newspapers all the time on their incorrect IDs...usually simple things, like a painted lady misidentified as a small tortoiseshell.
I remember correcting newspapers all the time on their incorrect IDs...usually simple things, like a painted lady misidentified as a small tortoiseshell.
WalterRayle
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There's also an information board at Tacumshin (white hole end) that mentions the winter swans and depicts a Black Swan.
I also remember a Hants Wildlife Trust event where they had someone dressed up in a Badger costume and the black and white face stripes were reversed. Did no-one check with the wildlife trust logo?
I also remember a Hants Wildlife Trust event where they had someone dressed up in a Badger costume and the black and white face stripes were reversed. Did no-one check with the wildlife trust logo?
alan_rymer
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They're not puffins!. Penguins dressed up! you can just see the wire holding the flying one up. As for the terns, Oystercatchers in fancy dress with a nose job.:smoke:
alan_rymer
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stuartvine
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Simon Wates
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:-O Woz de problem, des a bird on it in it!
Simon Wates
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:t: I'm installing some faith in the youngsters growing up but I suspect and fear a general demise in diligence.
CalvinFold
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Feels like it's far too late to instill (
) any sense of diligence in humans. We've latched onto this idea that "Agile development" should apply to all facets of life, and that doesn't leave room for being detail-oriented, cautious, or thorough.For example: real, talented, professional proofreaders have been a dying breed for over a decade. Quality assurance in web design has been dead on arrival almost from the start.
Simon Wates
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Feels like it's far too late to instill (
including me by the looks of it :-O
MJB
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Feels like it's far too late to instill (
Exercising due diligence in UK English, it's 'instil'...:eek!::eek!::eek!:
MJB
