Help with bird identification please - Yorkshire (1 Viewer)

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Markierich

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• Oct 21, 2020

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Could somebody help with bird identification please – thank you. Location: semi-open countryside, few houses nearby, small wooded area, West Yorkshire. The bird I saw for about 30 seconds today was about the size of a blackbird and very lightly built. Its predominant colour was pale, dusty with perhaps a hint of green. The main marking was a very noticeable black lateral stripe on its wing (i.e. along the body). It was fairly close to a lightly residential area, first sitting on a fence post to a field then flying off into a small wooded area. It flew in three or four swoops.

 

delia todd

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• Oct 21, 2020

• #2

Hi Markierich and a warm welcome to you from all the Staff and Moderators.

I've moved your post to the ID forum and subscribed you to the thread so that you can find it easily. You will receive an email with a link to click on which will bring you straight here. I feel there are more people with the expertise to see it in there.

I'm sure you will enjoy it here and I look forward to hearing your news.

 

mummymonkey

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• Oct 21, 2020

• #3

Green woodpecker?

 

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Sancho

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• Oct 21, 2020

• #4

mummymonkey said:

Green woodpecker?

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That was my first thought, if it was green and flew in swoops towards woods. We don't have them here, I've only ever seen them in England and Germany.

 

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BobbitWorm45

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• Oct 22, 2020

• #5

Agree with Green Woodpecker

 

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Markierich

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• Oct 23, 2020

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delia todd said:

Hi Markierich and a warm welcome to you from all the Staff and Moderators.

I've moved your post to the ID forum and subscribed you to the thread so that you can find it easily. You will receive an email with a link to click on which will bring you straight here. I feel there are more people with the expertise to see it in there.

I'm sure you will enjoy it here and I look forward to hearing your news.

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Thank you for your comments. We do have green woodpeckers round here. But they are definitely more green, and tend to have a red cap. This one was more dun/pale colour with perhaps just a hint of green. The main marking was a black band along the wing, or possibly black wing markings. Also I don’t think beak was heavy enough for a green woodpecker. Maybe it was a juvenile woodpecker. Do they have winter plumage?

 

Larry Sweetland

Formerly 'Larry Wheatland'

• Oct 23, 2020

• #7

Maybe Mistle Thrush? It's not easy to imagine what you mean by the black stripe on the wing. If you're not particularly familiar with bird anatomy, or judging how bits of birds can look depending on lighting conditions, and angle etc, it can be hard to interpret plumage features.

 

Deb Burhinus

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• Oct 23, 2020

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‘Very Lightly built’ with a black band along doesn’t really sound like any woodpecker species to me. Any juvenile woodpecker would have adult type body feathers by now (as would most passerines).

Could it have been a female Bullfinch?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_bullfinch#/media/File:Pyrrhula_pyrrhula_female_2.jpg