To be more precise they still can perch on trees/bushes during nesting season! But they are generally not a lot of trees, some bushes maybe, and that's not generally in them they'll find their favourite food!
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To be more precise they still can perch on trees/bushes during nesting season! But they are generally not a lot of trees, some bushes maybe, and that's not generally in them they'll find their favourite food!
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Nutcracker
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10 hard seeds (grain, etc.; not so much soft berries) in winter?
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Thank you very much!10 - No, in winter they eat fruits, berries, seeds, insects...
foresttwitcher
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Black Redstart?
11 - No
Nutcracker
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12 - Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush?
Contravenes #1, Black Redstart is not a long-distance migrant
Contravenes #1, Black Redstart is not a long-distance migrant
12 - Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush?
Contravenes #1, Black Redstart is not a long-distance migrant
13 - No
Nutcracker
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13 - would it commonly occupy the same habitat / territory as a Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush?
Simon Wates
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Ring Ouzel? (I know it doesn't fit maybe...but it does fit on most clues))
Nutcracker
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Ring Ouzel's only a short-distance migrant. It'll need to be something that winters either in southern Africa (Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush winters in tropical Africa), or else migrates southeast to southern Asia. I'm stuck, for the moment!
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Northern Wheatear?
You're on the good track! It's maybe the time to give a clue, no one has found yet the good family. Now any question you want can be asked!
Simon Wates
Well-known member
Yep - of course NC
Nevertheless, the phrase long distance migrant is a little ambiguous until an official minimum distance to qualify is applicable! Some Ring Ouzels do do a couple of 1,000 kms - so not always such a short distance migrant. Of course transaharian migrant leaves no doubt on the matter.Simon Wates
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For me, unless one of the clues is not so clear cut, can't be a WP breeding species. So it would have to be a bird of Asian uplands within range of R-t Rock Thrush. One notable clue is that invertebrates don't form a major part of its diet in the wintering quarters - I'm foxed!
One fine idea I had was White-throated Robin it seemed to fit except that it does sing in flight.
Maëlle - you chose a very hard one :t:
One fine idea I had was White-throated Robin it seemed to fit except that it does sing in flight.
Maëlle - you chose a very hard one
:t:
Nutcracker
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I'd said "over 4,000 km" in my questionYep - of course NC
Maëlle said we've not had the family yet, so Muscicapidae is out (Black Redstart, asked #11 by foresttwitcher :t:For me, unless one of the clues is not so clear cut, can't be a WP breeding species. So it would have to be a bird of Asian uplands within range of R-t Rock Thrush. One notable clue is that invertebrates don't form a major part of its diet in the wintering quarters - I'm foxed!
One fine idea I had was White-throated Robin it seemed to fit except that it does sing in flight.
Maëlle - you chose a very hard one
Simon Wates
Well-known member
I'd said "over 4,000 km" in my question
..thought that was the last species. Anyway . maybe we should make 4,000km the rule always?
For me, unless one of the clues is not so clear cut, can't be a WP breeding species. So it would have to be a bird of Asian uplands within range of R-t Rock Thrush. One notable clue is that invertebrates don't form a major part of its diet in the wintering quarters - I'm foxed!
One fine idea I had was White-throated Robin it seemed to fit except that it does sing in flight.
Maëlle - you chose a very hard one
Not that hard actually! and yes that's probably because I haven't been clear enough, insects are still an important part of the diet in winter, but they are not anymore the almost exclusive one.
I'd said "over 4,000 km" in my question
Maëlle said we've not had the family yet, so Muscicapidae is out (Black Redstart, asked #11 by foresttwitcher :t:
About the distance of the migration, I found it indeed hard to answer as there is no exact definition of a long distance migrant, I should have been more precise : 4000 km seemed a good average distance, they travel at the minimum about 1000 km (from the southern limit of the breeding ground to the northern limit to the wintering ground)
lou salomon
the birdonist
this is really hard. but well, all questions allowed now: is it a palearctic bird?
