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jurek said:
Ooh, on this picture it fits Verreaux's Eagle, but I am hesitating to call the species I know very little. Somebody more experienced could do, though.
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Scanning out to the region on Maps, I'd think that's unlikely - a fairly flat lowland area, with plantation forestry and suburban mix; Verreaux's is a bird of craggy sites where it can find its hyrax prey. Must admit, I'm not even sure it's a raptor at all, I was wondering if any hornbills might fit?
 
Nutcracker said:
What's worrying me is that my master list only has 219 on - somewhere in the last few days, I've tagged two off in this thread, but forgot to add them to my master list . . . whole thread reconcile coming up :-C:-C:-C
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Can't find anything missing; I think I must have numbered a couple of species twice in this thread (one was Magnificent Frigatebird; I can't find the other). So currently 219 species, not 221. If anyone can spot any errors - species they know they've mentioned, but not listed below, please mention it!
  1. Common Ostrich
  2. Australian Brushturkey
  3. Red Grouse
  4. Red-legged Partridge
  5. Common Pheasant
  6. Helmeted Guineafowl
  7. Vulturine Guineafowl
  8. Magpie Goose
  9. Canada Goose
  10. Brent Goose
  11. Greylag Goose
  12. Pink-footed Goose
  13. Coscoroba Swan
  14. Black Swan
  15. Mute Swan
  16. Whooper Swan
  17. Egyptian Goose
  18. Common Shelduck
  19. Paradise Shelduck
  20. Crested Duck
  21. Pacific Black Duck
  22. Mallard
  23. Chestnut Teal
  24. Red-billed Teal
  25. Northern Shoveler
  26. Hardhead
  27. New Zealand Scaup
  28. Tufted Duck
  29. Common Eider
  30. Goosander [Common Merganser]
  31. House Swift
  32. Common Swift
  33. Alpine Swift
  34. Rock Dove [feral pigeon]
  35. Woodpigeon
  36. Collared Dove
  37. Spotted Dove
  38. Laughing Dove
  39. Mourning Dove
  40. Zebra Dove
  41. Crested Pigeon
  42. Common Crane
  43. Hooded Crane
  44. White-naped Crane
  45. Australasian Swamphen
  46. Common Gallinule
  47. Common Moorhen
  48. Dusky Moorhen
  49. Eurasian Coot
  50. Greater Flamingo
  51. Chilean Flamingo
  52. African Jacana
  53. Eurasian Oystercatcher
  54. American Oystercatcher
  55. Variable Oystercatcher
  56. Pied Avocet
  57. Black-winged Stilt
  58. Pied Stilt
  59. Northern Lapwing
  60. Masked Lapwing
  61. Red-wattled Lapwing
  62. Spur-winged Lapwing
  63. Blacksmith Lapwing
  64. Eurasian Curlew
  65. Black-tailed Godwit
  66. Ruddy Turnstone
  67. Sanderling
  68. Common Sandpiper
  69. Willet
  70. Common Redshank
  71. Black-legged Kittiwake
  72. Bonaparte's Gull
  73. Black-headed Gull
  74. Slender-billed Gull
  75. Silver Gull [Silver & Red-billed sspp]
  76. Hartlaub's Gull
  77. Laughing Gull
  78. Mediterranean Gull
  79. Dolphin Gull
  80. Belcher's Gull
  81. Black-tailed Gull
  82. Heermann's Gull
  83. Common Gull
  84. Ring-billed Gull
  85. Great Black-backed Gull
  86. Kelp Gull
  87. Slaty-backed Gull
  88. Glaucous-winged Gull
  89. Western Gull
  90. Glaucous Gull
  91. European Herring Gull
  92. American Herring Gull
  93. Caspian Gull
  94. Yellow-legged Gull
  95. Lesser Black-backed Gull
  96. Pacific Gull
  97. Greater Crested Tern
  98. Royal Tern
  99. Cabot's Tern
  100. Forster's Tern
  101. Common Tern
  102. Arctic Tern
  103. Sooty Tern
  104. Whiskered Tern
  105. Black Guillemot
  106. Laysan Albatross
  107. Black-footed Albatross
  108. Northern Fulmar
  109. Christmas Shearwater
  110. Yellow-billed Stork
  111. Asian Openbill Stork
  112. African Openbill Stork
  113. White Stork
  114. Marabou Stork
  115. Magnificent Frigatebird
  116. Oriental Darter
  117. Pygmy Cormorant
  118. Little Pied Cormorant
  119. Double-crested Cormorant
  120. Little Black Cormorant
  121. Great Cormorant
  122. Sacred Ibis
  123. Australian White Ibis
  124. American White Ibis
  125. Glossy Ibis
  126. White-faced Ibis
  127. Roseate Spoonbill
  128. Squacco Heron
  129. Indian Pond Heron
  130. Western Cattle Egret
  131. Eastern Cattle Egret
  132. Great Blue Heron
  133. Grey Heron
  134. Purple Heron
  135. Great Egret
  136. White-faced Heron
  137. Snowy Egret
  138. Little Egret
  139. Australian Pelican
  140. American White Pelican
  141. Great White Pelican
  142. Dalmatian Pelican
  143. Spot-billed Pelican
  144. Brown Pelican
  145. Peruvian Pelican
  146. Turkey Vulture
  147. American Black Vulture
  148. Western Osprey
  149. Swallow-tailed Kite
  150. Griffon Vulture
  151. Yellow-billed Kite
  152. Black Kite
  153. Red Kite
  154. Hen Harrier
  155. Northern Harrier
  156. Cinereous Harrier
  157. Bald Eagle
  158. African Fish Eagle
  159. Common Buzzard
  160. Long-legged Buzzard
  161. Imperial Eagle
  162. Burrowing Owl
  163. Green Woodhoopoe
  164. White-throated Kingfisher
  165. Belted Kingfisher
  166. Pied Kingfisher
  167. Common Kestrel
  168. Lesser Kestrel
  169. American Kestrel
  170. Galah
  171. Little Corella
  172. Crimson Rosella
  173. Australian King Parrot
  174. Australian Magpie
  175. Magpie-lark
  176. Red-backed Shrike
  177. Fork-tailed Drongo
  178. Black Drongo
  179. Rufous Treepie
  180. Iberian Magpie
  181. Eurasian Magpie
  182. Western Jackdaw
  183. House Crow
  184. American Crow
  185. Rook
  186. Carrion Crow
  187. Hooded Crow
  188. Pied Crow
  189. Common Raven
  190. Little Raven
  191. White-spectacled Bulbul
  192. Red-vented Bulbul
  193. Barn Swallow
  194. Welcome Swallow
  195. House Martin
  196. Common Myna
  197. Tristram's Starling
  198. Common Starling
  199. Spotless Starling
  200. Asian Pied Starling
  201. Northern Mockingbird
  202. Mistle Thrush
  203. Common Blackbird
  204. American Robin
  205. Great Thrush
  206. Black Redstart
  207. European Stonechat
  208. White Wagtail
  209. House Sparrow
  210. Spanish Sparrow
  211. Common Chaffinch
  212. Reed Bunting
  213. Corn Bunting
  214. Great-tailed Grackle
  215. Common Grackle
  216. Brown-headed Cowbird
  217. Red-winged Blackbird
  218. Brewer's Blackbird
  219. Red-crested Cardinal
 
 
jurek said:
African Woolly-necked Stork
https://www.google.com/maps/@-30.05...4!1s9kli5MOEczmF-DJjS13sSg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Grey-headed Gull
https://www.google.com/maps/@-28.80...272.46887&pitch=0&thumbfov=100!7i13312!8i6656

Socialbe Weaver nests - can someone find a nest with inhabitants visible? Also, Village Weaver is not yet on the list.
https://www.google.com/maps/@-29.03...4!1sPWraSUScswf2YyaSBAPnkw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@-28.77...4!1swddFhTb4WPjnyBChNbsVlA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
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#220, #221 :t:
Not counting weavers on the basis of what they've woven alone! :-O
 
Nutcracker said:
Red-billed Chough, South Stack, Anglesey (best one of group of 3, see next frames northwest) - #223 :t:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.3...4!1sRAM2XThcIOeIrGNfQL9WEw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
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Great! I have searched for them unsuccessfully in Ronda, Spain, where they are usually easily seen from the bridges over the gorge.

Recently founds:
There are countless private footages and see insides of the famous Penguins at Boulders beach, South Africa. A single genuine GSV shot shows them too, right next to the viewing platform, even if they are only "black blobs" and not identifiable on this one. I guess we could still count this, couldn't we? - African Penguin - South Africa
https://www.google.com/maps/@-34.19...NxooOMJYPKsAF5aAK-0A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

A second Spoonbill species - African Spoonbill - Botswana
https://www.google.com/maps/@-20.48...PTLrUbdjJHqEPtVjgxEQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

And another new Coot species - Red-knobbed Coot - South Africa
https://www.google.com/maps/@-33.87...Q_gjcJERXVU39KO7BzkQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
 
Th. Stegmann said:
Great! I have searched for them unsuccessfully in Ronda, Spain, where they are usually easily seen from the bridges over the gorge.

Recently founds:
There are countless private footages and see insides of the famous Penguins at Boulders beach, South Africa. A single genuine GSV shot shows them too, right next to the viewing platform, even if they are only "black blobs" and not identifiable on this one. I guess we could still count this, couldn't we? - African Penguin - South Africa
https://www.google.com/maps/@-34.19...NxooOMJYPKsAF5aAK-0A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

A second Spoonbill species - African Spoonbill - Botswana
https://www.google.com/maps/@-20.48...PTLrUbdjJHqEPtVjgxEQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

And another new Coot species - Red-knobbed Coot - South Africa
https://www.google.com/maps/@-33.87...Q_gjcJERXVU39KO7BzkQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
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Thanks!

I searched Boulders Beach too the other day, and missed that one tiny gap! First penguin, too! #224 :t:

Excellent nailing the African Spoonbill - visible, but in unidentifiable poses, in the frames either side. #225, and an excellent set of Marabou Storks there too.

Can (almost) dream I can actually see the red knobs 3:) . . . #226 :t:
 
One other group of birds we've not started on yet - should be possible to find some bustards? Great in Spain, Kori in Africa somewhere? Big things, ought to be visible a long way off!

Also more Ratites - Greater Rhea? Emu? Perhaps even Cassowary (as they sometimes visit suburbia in Queensland)?
 
Taiwan seems to be a very productive country. Very dense coverage, many footpaths in parks and small streets everywhere are genuine CSV.

Look at this set of frames, just incredible! The guy almost stepped on it... :eek!: Also very funny distortions.
Malayan Night Heron - Taiwan
https://www.google.com/maps/@25.036...OXaav0kU0IsFyxps8dzA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@25.036...BtvA4zD3go9s9rclmCCA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@25.036...YfOAz5Un_BjsUmhPbLnA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@25.036...uupAMCcb_DnR-pr1vu_w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

More new ones:
Red Turtle Dove - Taiwan
https://www.google.com/maps/@23.519...p6RNM0BdHHPLDf1yztgA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en

Crested Myna - Taiwan
https://www.google.com/maps/@23.481...gjbJx_aPqfdVlFoRVdCA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en

Black-crowned Night Heron - Taiwan
https://www.google.com/maps/@25.034...HnxjCA3oVEQRcRFFA7tQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

Gadwall - Taiwan
https://www.google.com/maps/@25.031...zCmMaKJFeL1RYm40wutg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en

Greenshank (?) - Taiwan
https://www.google.com/maps/@23.507...E6_PzReQY9jtXiOuOsSw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en
 
Nutcracker said:
One other group of birds we've not started on yet - should be possible to find some bustards? Great in Spain, Kori in Africa somewhere? Big things, ought to be visible a long way off!

Also more Ratites - Greater Rhea? Emu? Perhaps even Cassowary (as they sometimes visit suburbia in Queensland)?
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I already tried Great and Litte Bustards in Spain and Portugal, difficult! And finding an Emu in thousands of km in the outback of Australia also certainly requires a lot of patience or time or luck. But it should be possible. :t: Let's see!
 

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