Passerine possibly a White-winged Lark out of breeding plumage or a juv...
Laurie -
if my memory serves me well, it was dark. ranger identified quite a few birds as black vulture, I presume it's other name for cinereous vulture
Yes. "Cinereous" is an American renaming (so they could keep 'Black Vulture' unaltered for Coragyps atratus), highly inappropriate, as 'cinereous' means pale greyish-white (the colour of ashes), completely wrong for Aegypius monachus. High time it was deleted from the official lists.if my memory serves me well, it was dark. ranger identified quite a few birds as black vulture, I presume it's other name for cinereous vulture
Yes. "Cinereous" is an American renaming (so they could keep 'Black Vulture' unaltered for Coragyps atratus), highly inappropriate, as 'cinereous' means pale greyish-white (the colour of ashes), completely wrong for Aegypius monachus. High time it was deleted from the official lists.
Once again led by the nose with vernacular - as for the Lark/Bunting and supposed ‘range’ i had better take the Black Lark on Anglesey off my list because, well, it shouldn’t occur there.....:-O
Laurie:t:
Yes. "Cinereous" is an American renaming (so they could keep 'Black Vulture' unaltered for Coragyps atratus), highly inappropriate, as 'cinereous' means pale greyish-white (the colour of ashes), completely wrong for Aegypius monachus. High time it was deleted from the official lists.