Google Street View birding (2 Viewers)

Th. Stegmann said:

Black Vulture
https://www.google.com/maps/@25.382...DF8ss0-FVTXHLfO0w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=de-DE
Osprey
https://www.google.com/maps/@26.588...-wIkkPFaPC5WE_FtF7eA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=de

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American Black Vulture #141 :t:

Osprey - already got

Full list up to date, 141 birds. Any errors / corrections, please say!


Common Ostrich
Australian Brushturkey
Red-legged Partridge
Common Pheasant
Helmeted Guineafowl
Magpie Goose
Canada Goose
Greylag Goose
Pink-footed Goose
Coscoroba Swan
Black Swan
Mute Swan
Whooper Swan
Egyptian Goose
Common Shelduck
Paradise Shelduck
Crested Duck
Pacific Black Duck
Mallard
Chestnut Teal
Hardhead
New Zealand Scaup
Tufted Duck
Common Eider
Goosander [Common Merganser]
Common Swift
Alpine Swift
Rock Dove [feral pigeon]
Woodpigeon
Collared Dove
Mourning Dove
Australasian Swamphen
Common Moorhen
Dusky Moorhen
Eurasian Coot
Greater Flamingo
Chilean Flamingo
Eurasian Oystercatcher
Variable Oystercatcher
Pied Avocet
Black-winged Stilt
Pied Stilt
Northern Lapwing
Masked Lapwing
Blacksmith Lapwing
Eurasian Curlew
Black-tailed Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Common Sandpiper
Willet
Common Redshank
Black-legged Kittiwake
Black-headed Gull
Slender-billed Gull
Silver Gull [Silver & Red-billed sspp]
Laughing Gull
Dolphin Gull
Belcher's Gull
Black-tailed Gull
Common Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Kelp Gull
Slaty-backed Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous Gull
European Herring Gull
American Herring Gull
Caspian Gull
Yellow-legged Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Royal Tern
Cabot's Tern
Forster's Tern
Common Tern
Arctic Tern
Black Guillemot
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
White Stork
Marabou Stork
Pygmy Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Little Black Cormorant
Great Cormorant
Sacred Ibis
Australian White Ibis
American White Ibis
Western Cattle Egret
Grey Heron
Great Egret
White-faced Heron
Snowy Egret
Little Egret
Great White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Turkey Vulture
American Black Vulture
Western Osprey
Griffon Vulture
Black Kite
Red Kite
Hen Harrier
Cinereous Harrier
Bald Eagle
Common Buzzard
Burrowing Owl
Pied Kingfisher
Common Kestrel
Lesser Kestrel
Crimson Rosella
Australian King Parrot
Australian Magpie
Magpie-lark
Fork-tailed Drongo
Rufous Treepie
Iberian Magpie
Eurasian Magpie
Western Jackdaw
Rook
Carrion Crow
Hooded Crow
Pied Crow
Common Raven
White-spectacled Bulbul
Barn Swallow
House Martin
Common Myna
Tristram's Starling
Common Starling
Spotless Starling
Common Blackbird
Great Thrush
Black Redstart
European Stonechat
White Wagtail
Spanish Sparrow
Common Chaffinch
Reed Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird

Awaiting verification:
Slavonian Grebe (post #62)

Human
Long-tailed Macaque
Olive Baboon
Black-faced Vervet Monkey
Spectacled Flying-fox
Warthog
Plains Zebra
Impala
Defassa Waterbuck

Long overdue! Ring-billed Gull, Toronto #142
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.630...4!1siD1dbq-OMztsnjw-ovpMTQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Most GSV is done in summer when the light is better. Can make things difficult for wintering birds . . . so thought I'd try the Arctic. Well, guess what: Churchill, Manitoba is the one place where they went in the winter! Birdless :-C

Zebra Dove on Oahu...

https://www.google.com/maps/@21.283...ch=0&thumbfov=100!7i13312!8i6656!9m2!1b1!2i38

Also valid GSV... I don't know why... what exactly makes it valid?

Anyway
Northern Fulmar
https://www.google.com/maps/@62.370...y9jhWXroNHKLur7VA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=de-DE

Is Laysan valid? Lots of terns, but I am not going to identify unless it is worth it! Anyone know if the species are identifiable on underwing patterns?

Btw, what is behind the Burrowing owls in the second picture?

Small American passerine flying across the road on the New York side of Niagara Falls. Looks like it should be ID-able. Any suggestions?

https://goo.gl/maps/ZQHZB2cEMsQuWNPu5

Nutcracker said:

Most GSV is done in summer when the light is better. Can make things difficult for wintering birds . . . so thought I'd try the Arctic. Well, guess what: Churchill, Manitoba is the one place where they went in the winter! Birdless :-C

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I also checked a place we went to in Sweden, which is a tundra plateau, but they went in March and of course it was a total whiteout! :-C

Is the American passerine a Mockingbird at an angle which foreshortened the tail?

Thanks to a better screen, my what is behind the owls question is redundant; it’s another owl in a funny position above them! Looked like a peahen on the phone screen!

Glaucous-winged Gull? (most common Gull species over there)

https://goo.gl/maps/mSisYdwWLPVAfF589

and again

https://goo.gl/maps/Zfk9guersA9qCrybA

American Crow (only option I think)

https://goo.gl/maps/tKBzjSnf6UV8vhkn6

Nutcracker said:

Likewise, the lack of close California Sealions to the mammal list prompted me to go for a twitch: - 'Inside View', disqualified

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You are telling this to a former student who sneaked without paying whenever he could avoid it... the same place from another angle:
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.811...4!1sMGZd0RxinVgzIpKnl4nB5g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Edit: Great-tailed Grackle
https://www.google.com/maps/@26.141...337.57687&pitch=0&thumbfov=100!7i13312!8i6656

Birdbrain22 said:

Zebra Dove on Oahu...

https://www.google.com/maps/@21.283...ch=0&thumbfov=100!7i13312!8i6656!9m2!1b1!2i38

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#143 shame a lot of our ticks are Category C birds (introduced invasive species), tho' they still count!

Th. Stegmann said:

Also valid GSV... I don't know why... what exactly makes it valid?

Anyway
Northern Fulmar
https://www.google.com/maps/@62.370...y9jhWXroNHKLur7VA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=de-DE

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#144

Because GSV is done with the intention of street mapping, and birds are entirely incidental; they need our skill to search and find. Others may be done with the deliberate intention of getting pics of birds; if we tick them, we may as well go to a bird photo database and tick the birds we find there: it's "cheating" :t:

Welsh Peregrine said:

Is Laysan valid? Lots of terns, but I am not going to identify unless it is worth it! Anyone know if the species are identifiable on underwing patterns?

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I'll take a look!

Stonefaction said:

Small American passerine flying across the road on the New York side of Niagara Falls. Looks like it should be ID-able. Any suggestions?

https://goo.gl/maps/ZQHZB2cEMsQuWNPu5

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Agree with Northern Mockingbird; #145 :t:

North-western Crow?

https://goo.gl/maps/qjzY7cqEhrX1n4sh6

The standard Crow species on the BC coast

Heerman's Gull & Western Gull (possibly others)

https://goo.gl/maps/ZyeaMPvpdCqdkZ2QA

Most GSV is done in summer when the light is better. Can make things difficult for wintering birds

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Can be worth trying the little clock icon to change the date. That's how I found the October 2017 for the gulls in California - way better than June 2019.

3Italianbirders said:

North-western Crow?

https://goo.gl/maps/qjzY7cqEhrX1n4sh6

The standard Crow species on the BC coast

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Ticking as American Crow #146; NW Crow has suffered a crisis in belief in recent months :-O (basically, it's just a subspecies of American; and only 'pure-bred' north of the Alaska border)

Stonefaction said:

Heerman's Gull & Western Gull (possibly others)

https://goo.gl/maps/ZyeaMPvpdCqdkZ2QA

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Heermann's #147; already got Western :t:
Can't see anything else different there, no Surfbird etc., alas.