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Nutcracker said:
No GSV in any of Newcastle's parks; I've been concentrating on footy fields in the west of the city (places like this), that's a good Mistle area. Less chance in London, they're actually scarcer down there than up here - they like it cool. Alternatively, places in the hills like the Allendales are full of Mistlers, but I've yet to find one on GSV.
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Agree on relative abundance, places like Holystone also good, but limited GSV coverage. I mentioned Regent's Park because I got a great view of Mistle Thrush there a few years ago, like most urban park birds more habituated to people, and thought the chances of getting them on a passing GSV camera correspondingly higher. Tried a few parks in Co. Durham, headed for the hills looking for Ring Ouzel on the Durham moors, and started to check out Regent's Park...this could get addictive!
 
It IS addictive!

New page, so here's the full list up to date

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

Awaiting verification:
Slavonian Grebe (post #62) Anyone care to have a check on this? Am I just self-deluding?

Human
Long-tailed Macaque
Olive Baboon
Black-faced Vervet Monkey
Spectacled Flying-fox
Warthog
Plains Zebra
Impala
Defassa Waterbuck
 
I’m pretty happy on the Slavonians, but would prefer someone else to stick their neck out. If I had to call the black jobs in Kampala, I’d suggest Openbill, but don’t recall seeing them there, but there again they weren’t a target.
 
Here are some birds from Portugal on a remarkable road that I have already driven, the N123. E.g. many white storks on the numerous nests along the road on telegraph poles and in eucalyptus can be seen well, but also a few others, among them as new:

(Most likely) Spotless Starlings:
https://www.google.de/maps/@37.7200...4!1s7yM6xl19xz-HZqXzNXmtMA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.de/maps/@37.7198...4!1sZDjA8cXXUwr0m3gPawCDUg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.de/maps/@37.7180...4!1s1-cXgX4X-LACbZiKXghElg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

(Most likely) Spanish Sparrows (subtenants of the white storks):
https://www.google.de/maps/@37.7183...4!1shEISOJBv6JW_eerCJepZtg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.de/maps/@37.7184...4!1stKF5LwA7rKwRQkBJhc624w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

And this? A possible Azur-winged Magpie?
https://www.google.de/maps/@37.7204...4!1smiY8J2WfkXZ56OzTHz7imw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

It is worth checking the road for more.

Greetings
Thorsten
 
Welsh Peregrine said:
I’m pretty happy on the Slavonians, but would prefer someone else to stick their neck out. If I had to call the black jobs in Kampala, I’d suggest Openbill, but don’t recall seeing them there, but there again they weren’t a target.
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Thanks! Someone else to confirm or deny, please!
Th. Stegmann said:
Here are some birds from Portugal on a remarkable road that I have already driven, the N123. E.g. many white storks on the numerous nests along the road on telegraph poles and in eucalyptus can be seen well, but also a few others, among them as new:

(Most likely) Spotless Starlings:
https://www.google.de/maps/@37.7200...4!1s7yM6xl19xz-HZqXzNXmtMA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.de/maps/@37.7198...4!1sZDjA8cXXUwr0m3gPawCDUg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.de/maps/@37.7180...4!1s1-cXgX4X-LACbZiKXghElg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

(Most likely) Spanish Sparrows (subtenants of the white storks):
https://www.google.de/maps/@37.7183...4!1shEISOJBv6JW_eerCJepZtg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.de/maps/@37.7184...4!1stKF5LwA7rKwRQkBJhc624w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

And this? A possible Azur-winged Magpie?
https://www.google.de/maps/@37.7204...4!1smiY8J2WfkXZ56OzTHz7imw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

It is worth checking the road for more.

Greetings
Thorsten
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Agree all 3 (the magpie Iberian now, of course) :t:
116, 117, 118
 
Stonefaction said:
Belcher's Gull

https://goo.gl/maps/FTrtaHB8NRvsMAqN8
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Can almost hear it belching! :t:

Th. Stegmann said:
House Martin, Denmark :)
https://www.google.de/maps/@56.7929...4!1s1Ux_mExZs9I2yi8lEKyx5A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
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Dejlig 8-P

Stonefaction said:
Anhinga? (or Cormorant sp.) - bill looks long and pale and bird looks quite long tailed in some views.

https://goo.gl/maps/JZ1uocMv4xXWki7y7
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I'd go for Neotropic Cormorant, neck looks too short and thick for an Anhinga? Would welcome other thoughts though. Holding fire on adding for now (into the verification set!)

rosbifs said:
Black Redstart
https://goo.gl/maps/5PHN9BJ6Kc5wof9z5
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Hmmm . . . can just about make it out!
rosbifs said:
This I suspect is a Rock Thrush - struggling to get a better angle
https://goo.gl/maps/Xvo3o4VF1F3adSyv9
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Hmmmmmm . . this one I can't make out! :-O
 
Stonefaction said:
Magnificent Frigatebird (makes a pleasant change from Turkey Vultures which seem to be everywhere down the pacific coast of South America).

https://goo.gl/maps/3ysKZwFjJ2UWPpQM7

There's lots more....
https://goo.gl/maps/EGCmVLTaJV7MmECx5

Best view yet...
https://goo.gl/maps/DDpKEREnuZuAreD59
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Presumably ID by location, somewhere that other Friggin' birds don't occur?


No Inca Terns on the Pacific coast?


Welsh Peregrine said:
Agree with Neotropic Cormorant, certainly not an Anhinga!
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Excellent, thanks! #121 (I think; with Belching Gull #119, Bysvale #120, and Black Redstart #122)
 
No Inca Terns on the Pacific coast?
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Couldn't find any, or Grey Gulls - though opportunities were limited. Magnificent is by range, but also a google search of "Frigatebird" and the location.
 

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