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Isurus

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• Sep 16, 2009

• #1

So I just found an emu next to Tortola, BVI's best (only) wetland site. I'm pretty confident in not ticking it as being a wild vagrant. Anyway this being a rather ridiculous sighting I was wondering what the rest of birdforum's most ridiculous plastic sightings have been.

Share your tales of bewilderment.

 

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Dave B Smith

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• Sep 16, 2009

• #2

We had a Peahen show up at our back door in South Florida and stay for several weeks. Turns out there is a small feral population in the adjacent town that's been there for years.

 

jurek

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• Sep 16, 2009

• #3

Wolala! In Holland you have domestic ducks, geese, chicken running wild, and wildfowl mixes of all description. Its tough competition for the most ridiculuos one!

 

Mysticete

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• Sep 16, 2009

• #4

I have had cockatiel twice is Southern California, but perhaps the most aggravating was a Linnet at Tawas Point in Michigan. Momentary excitement followed quickly with the certainty that it was an escapee

 

JTweedie

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• Sep 16, 2009

• #5

My neighbour has a plastic GS Woodpecker in her garden. My window overlooks both mine and her garden so I consider it to be "tickable" for garden species, came very closing to ticking this until I noticed it hadn't moved for a while.

 

ta brandreth

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• Sep 16, 2009

• #6

mid 80's Inner Marsh farm, 3 of us scoped Spoonbill for 10/15 minutes until the wind brought out colour and diagnostic patterning............



ASDA carrier bag (full summer )

 

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Sancho

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• Sep 16, 2009

• #7

JTweedie said:

My neighbour has a plastic GS Woodpecker in her garden. My window overlooks both mine and her garden so I consider it to be "tickable" for garden species, came very closing to ticking this until I noticed it hadn't moved for a while.

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That happened me as a kid in the ´70´s. A fellow kid-birder said he´d seen an egret, from the bus, in a big garden on the way to school. (This is in pre-Little Egret colonisation days). We went to check it out, and it was indeed an egret. A plastic motionless one.

 

UtahnBirder

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• Sep 17, 2009

• #8

Back in Vegas those Peacocks always snuck into my friends yard.

 

Hanno

Ho Ho Ho

• Sep 17, 2009

• #9

1. Walking up a hill in Sa Pa, North Vietnam a few years back looking for things like Parrotbills, Laughingthrushes, and Buntings when I spotted 3 Ostriches. From where I was standing I couldn't see that they were in an enclosure (found out that the poor animals are kept as a tourist attraction even though their mortality rate is apparently high due to the cold and wet weather).

2. Went running here in Siem Reap, Cambodia, a couple of weeks ago when I spotted a few Spot-billed Pelicans in a rice paddy next to the road. In the early morning twilight they did seem to be awfully still; it was only on my return leg that I realized that they were out of concrete.

 

Farnboro John

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• Sep 17, 2009

• #10

Acacia Paradise Whydah male in full plumage on a rooftop in Skegness on 1 October when I was looking for a Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler that had gone!

John

 

pie

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• Sep 17, 2009

• #11

I spotted a Buzzard in a field striking a perfect pose until I realised it was a prop placed there by the optics tent!! |:||

 

jurek

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• Sep 17, 2009

• #12

Not birds, but a herd of two-humped camels is for several years a sight at the birding spot at Putten, Holland.