John In Ireland
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Valéry Schollaert
Respect animals, don't eat or wear their body or s
Yeah, that's the "three-toed sandpiper" indeed ! (correlimos tridáctilo)
Simon Wates
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Valéry Schollaert
Respect animals, don't eat or wear their body or s
That's the Spanish name. The Portuguese name is Pilrito-das-praias
Indeed, that was just a different way to recall that the lack of hind toe is diagnostic.
I speak both Spanish and Portuguese and wouldn't confuse them.
Simon Wates
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Yes, maybe a bit brash of me Valéry and that's one thing we have in common
I was, just in case, just protecting the Portuguese from being "lumped" with the Spanish - it does happen.Three-toed Sandpiper is a name to remember :t:
Valéry Schollaert
Respect animals, don't eat or wear their body or s
Yes, maybe a bit brash of me Valéry and that's one thing we have in common
Three-toed Sandpiper is a name to remember :t:
I support you this way, Simon. I love beautiful languages, hate sms writings, simplified English, heavy use of acronyms as well as Portuñol (Portunhol?)...
To be honest, Portuguese is beautiful and I love speaking it, although, having been living in Colombia and the Canaries in 2016 and 2017 my Spanish is now much better.
What do we have in common exactly? Being harsh and not really diplomatic (or hypocritical, sometimes meaning the same to me) or speaking English, Portuguese and Spanish? :king::king:B
Simon Wates
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hate sms writings, simplified English, heavy use of acronyms as well as Portuñol (Portunhol?)...
To be honest, Portuguese is beautiful and I love speaking it, although, having been living in Colombia and the Canaries in 2016 and 2017 my Spanish is now much better.
What do we have in common exactly? Being harsh and not really diplomatic (or hypocritical, sometimes meaning the same to me) or speaking English, Portuguese and Spanish? :king::king:B
I had meant that we have the 3 languages in common - but that I didn't mean to be brash. The doubt was my fault, awful hurried grammar.
Yes, Portunhol is spoken a bit here, mainly by visiting tourists, with the courage at least to try to speak a little Portuguese - many don't try, they look terrified but I think its just plain and lazy ignorance. Visiting Spanish (large numbers!) also struggle with Portuguese, whereas the Portuguese are fine with Spanish and workers in bars/shops often speak Spanish with the Spanish - very rarely the other way around!
Anyway....off topic here!
I must say that once again, I have enjoyed seeing some breeding plumaged Sanderlings recently - wow, they go far north! They always get the unaware, looking like a rare peep or something and there have been a number of ID requests again. (well I had to say something about Sanderlings
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John In Ireland
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Anyway .... thanks all for the identification!
Valéry Schollaert
Respect animals, don't eat or wear their body or s
With pleasure... obrigado... con much gusto... avec plaisir 8-P
"I had meant that we have the 3 languages in common - but that I didn't mean to be brash. The doubt was my fault, awful hurried grammar."
No worry, I didn't take it wrong at all, this is my type of humour... and, myself, I can be harsh anyway 8-P
