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Can anyone identify this bird? (1 Viewer)
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Alexander Stöhr
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Hello Bigbird,
welcome to the forum! Very interesting picture, please note the following:
your bird looks strange/weird, maybe this is due to sharpening effects. If taken with a mobile phone, more photos could help because I have the feeling that this single picture doesnt represent the real and "full" appearance of this bird (due to bad sharpening/internal camera processing" effects (I hope thats understandable, I am no native speaker)
I think you have excluded the possibility of a artificial object like a Child Kite?
welcome to the forum! Very interesting picture, please note the following:
your bird looks strange/weird, maybe this is due to sharpening effects. If taken with a mobile phone, more photos could help because I have the feeling that this single picture doesnt represent the real and "full" appearance of this bird (due to bad sharpening/internal camera processing" effects (I hope thats understandable, I am no native speaker)
I think you have excluded the possibility of a artificial object like a Child Kite?
Alexander Stöhr
Well-known member
Again to late with my answer, I think you are right, Gerald. I had the same thoughts and looking again, this would explain the cross-bars that are visible in the head-breast area.
Hi Gerald and Alexander,
I am so sorry, the picture was sent to me by my brother, who took it while he was running on the common. He now believes that it was most likely a toy and I agree. Both he and I are completely embarrassed. Thank you for being gentle with your replies to such a stupid post! I spent a lot of time looking in my bird guides and was excited that it was something I had never seen before!
I am so sorry, the picture was sent to me by my brother, who took it while he was running on the common. He now believes that it was most likely a toy and I agree. Both he and I are completely embarrassed. Thank you for being gentle with your replies to such a stupid post! I spent a lot of time looking in my bird guides and was excited that it was something I had never seen before!
birdmeister
Well-known member
I've mistaken balloons so many times for migrating birds, it's not even funny.
No reason to worry here! Please post again if you have future questions.
No reason to worry here! Please post again if you have future questions.
Bigbird...there was thread recently in the "Ruffled Feathers" section about "Stickbirds"...birders mistaking sticks, branches, plastic bags, all kinds of stuff for birds (usually rare ones!) I once spent a long time watching a dried-out lump of cow-dung, through a telescope, convinced it was a Dowitcher or something. At least your friend´s photo is a bird of sorts!!!
Bigbird...there was thread recently in the "Ruffled Feathers" section about "Stickbirds"...birders mistaking sticks, branches, plastic bags, all kinds of stuff for birds (usually rare ones!) I once spent a long time watching a dried-out lump of cow-dung, through a telescope, convinced it was a Dowitcher or something. At least your friend´s photo is a bird of sorts!!!
Here's that thread Sancho: https://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=385278&highlight=stickbirds
Though I seem to remember another one years ago (many years ago I think).
Jon Turner
Well-known member
The great Bryan Bland once showed his group (in Southern Spain somewhere I think) a Great Bustard displaying. It turned out to be a man on a bicycle...
Don't worry. We all do it!
Don't worry. We all do it!
