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Candydez12

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This is another fun game. How it works it we go through the whole alphabet A-Z and for each say the bird species and post a photo of the bird. For example, A can be for Acorn Woodpecker, then after that B can be for Bahama Mockingbird. Etc. After we get to Z, start at A again, but you can't do the same exact bird for A twice. Good luck :)

NB: the pictures must be your own images.

Species played as of 19/10/21 (will be updated regularly)


Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard), Avocet, Accipiter nisus (Sparrowhawk), American Goldfinch, Aythya fuligula (Tufted Duck), Anas Dypetia Northern Shoveler, Apus apus (Common Swift), Abert's Towhee, Apostlebird, American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber), Australian Grebe, Australian Shelduck, Australian Shoveler, Australian Magpie, Australasian Swamphen, American Golden Plover, American Crow, Bar headed goose, Blackcap, Black-headed gull, Brolga, Bar-shouldered Dove, Barn Owl, Common Bronzewing, Banded Lapwing, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Black-shouldered Kite (U), Black Rosy-finch, Bald-faced Rail, Baird's Sandpiper, Red-winged Blackbird, GreY Butcherbird, Bellbird, Australian Brushturkey, Horsfield's BronZe Cuckoo, Blue-faced Honeyeater, Bush Stone-curlew, Coal Tit, Carolina Wren, Green Catbird, Coot, Catbird, Carnaby's Black Cockatoo, Cactus Wren, Corn Bunting, Chipping Sparrow, Red-billed Chough, Cockatiel, Siberian Chiffchaff, Chestnut-breasted Mannikin, Collared Nightjar, Black-faced Cuckooshrike, Canada Goose, Australian Pied Cormorant, Crag Martin, ColUmba livia domestica (Feral Pigeon, Rock Dove), Great Spotted Cuckoo, Dipper, Australasian Darter, Dunnock, Dollarbird, Diamond Dove, Dunlin, Double-barred Finch, Dark-eyed Junco, Dusky Moorhen, Dusky Woodswallow, Dark-capped Bulbul, Dartford Warbler, Bronze-winged Duck (aka Spectacled Duck), Eurasian Collared Dove, Downy Woodpecker, White-winged Dove, White-throated Dipper (Black-bellied Dipper), Double-crested Cormorant, Little Egret, Bald Eagle, Emu, Eastern Bluebird, Cattle Egret, Eastern Spinebill, Evening Grosbeak, Emperor Goose, Great Egret (Great White Egret), Eastern Yellow Robin, Elegant Parrot, White tailed Eagle, Eurasian Coot, European Goldfinch, Eurasian Blackbird, Great Crested Flycatcher, Franklin’s Gull, Pied Flycatcher (Ficedula holeuca), Fairy Martin, Field Sparrow, Freckled Duck, Brown Falcon, Red-browed Finch, Australasian Figbird, Noisy Friarbird, Ferruginous Hawk, Feral Pigeon, Red-footed Falcon, New Zealand Fantail, Flesh-footed Shearwater, American Goldfinch, Greater spotted woodpecker (Great Spotted Woodpecker), Great Crested Grebe, Galah, Glaucous gull, Great Crested Tern, Glaucous-winged Gull, Great Skua, Yaffle (Green Woodpecker), Green Heron, Golden Eagle, Goosander (Common Merganser), Great Cormorant, garganey, Common Greenshank, Grey-tailed Tattler, Gull-billed Tern, Grey Fantail, Eurasian Hobby, Hoopoe, Horned Lark, Grey Heron, Hooded Robin, Hooded Warbler, Herring gull, Hardhead, Hoary-headed Grebe, House Sparrow, House Finch, Hermit Thrush, Black-crowned Night Heron, Hooded Crow, Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater, House Bunting, Hen Harrier, White-faced Heron, White Ibis, Australian Ibis, Glossy Ibis, Straw-necked Ibis, Ichthyaetus melanocephalus (Meditteranean Gull), Indian Myna (or Common Myna), Intermediate Egret, Iceland Gull, Inca Dove, Italian Sparrow, Jackdaw, Blue Jay, Eurasian Jay, Jack Snipe, Jacky Winter, King Parrot, Comb-crested Jacana, Parasitic Jaeger (Arctic Skua, Parasitic Skua), Florida Scrub Jay, Green Jay, Long-tailed Jaeger (Long-tailed Skua), (Common) Kingfisher, Laughing Kookaburra, Nankeen Kestrel, Eurasian Kestrel, Belted Kingfisher, Red Kite, Kumlien’s Gull, Black Kite, Brahminy Kite, Kelp Goose, Eastern Kingbird, Australian Logrunner, Lapland Longspur (Lapland Bunting), Rainbow Lorikeet, Little Tern, Lanius cristatus (Brown Shrike), Laughing Gull, Common Linnet (Eurasian Linnet), Laughing Dove, Scaly-breasted Lorikeet, Little Owl, Lewin's Honeyeater, Little Bunting, Ladder-backed Woodpecker, Musk Lorikeet, Little BlacK Cormorant, Little Bustard, Little Corella, Myrtle Warbler, Eurasian Marsh Harrier, Mourning Dove, Common Magpie, Magpie-Goose, Major Mitchell's Cockatoo, Magpie-Lark, Common Moorhen, Delichon Urbicum (House Martin), Mallard, Merlin, (Mistletoe Tyranulet) Zimmerius parvus, Magnolia Warbler, Maned Duck (also known as Australian Wood Duck and Maned Goose), Murphy's Petrel (Pterodroma Ultima), Masked Woodswallow, Magellanic Penguin, Mulga Parrot, Monk Parakeet, Eurasian Nuthatch, (Black-tailed Nativehen, Northern Wheatear, Nashville Warbler, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Northern Barred-Woodcreeper, Northern Harrier, Nanday Parakeet, New Holland Honeyeater, Noisy Miner, Nankeen Night Heron (Rufous Night Heron), Northern Cardinal, Northern Hawk Owl, Northern Flicker, Northern Gannet, Northern Pintail, Eurasian Nutcracker,
Osprey, Ovenbird, Eurasian Oystercatcher, Ring Ouzel, Little) Owl, Pied Oystercatcher, Owlet Nightjar, Snowy Owl, Ovenbird, Orange-crowned Warbler, Olive-backed Oriole, Eastern Osprey, Screech Owl, Australian Pelican, Bourke's Parrot, Striated Pardalote, Purple Moorhen, Ptarmigan, Purple Heron, Phoebe, Pine Siskin, Pacific Screech Owl, Pacific Gull, Pied Currawong, Atlantic Puffin, Pacific Black Duck, Pheasant Coucal, Pale-billed Woodpecker, Peaceful DoVe, Pied Flycatcher, Brown Pelican, Squatter Pigeon, Pink-footed Goose, A Queen’s Swan, HarleQuin Duck, California Quail, Bobwhite Quail, American Robin, Rosy Starling, Buff-banded Rail, Red-crowned Crane, Red-necked Phalarope, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Rainbow Bee-eater, European Robin (Erithacus rubecula), Razorbill, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Rufous Hummnigbird, Red-headed Woodpecker, Red-browed Finch, (Corvus Corax) Common Raven, Red-necked Stint, Royal Spoonbill, Red-eyed Vireo, Australian RaVen, Red-cockaded Woodpecker,
Superb Fairywren, Black Swan, Splendid Fairywren, Stonechat, Satin Bowerbird, Anas Dypetia Northern Shoveler, Sqare-tailed Kite, Steller's Eagle, Common Shelduck, Silver Gull, Sacred Kingfisher, Common Starling, Streaked-backed Oriole, Short Eared Owl, Salmon-crested Cockatoo, Silvereye, Silver gull, Slavonian Grebe, Spotted Dove, Snowy Sheathbill, Shining Bronze Cuckoo, Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Spanish Imperial Eagle, Striated Heron, Grey Teal, Tufted Titmouse, Common Tern, Eurasian Teal, Tufted Puffin, Torresian Crow, Tawny Owl, Twite, Eurasian Turtle Dove, Tree Sparrow, Torresian Kingfisher, Tree Pipit, Tree Martin, NZ Tomtit (New Zealand Tomtit, Chestnut Teal, Tri-colored Heron, Ural Owl, Uria aalge (Common Guillemot), Blue Waxbill (Uraeginthus angolensis), Upupa epops (Eurasian Hoopoe), Unicoloured Blackbird, Upland Sandpiper, Ultramarine Grosbeak, Uniform Antshrike, Variegated Fairywren, Vanellus miles novaehollandiae (Masked Lapwing), Vanellus vanellus (Northern Lapwing), Veery, Blue-headed Vireo, Verdin, Variable Oystercatcher, Hutton's Vireo, Black Vulture, Wood Stork, Griffon Vulture, Turkey Vulture, Wheatear, Wigeon, White throated Kingfisher, White-plumed Honeyeater, Common Whitethroat (Greater Whitethroat), White-throated Sparrow, Wandering Whistling Duck, Wedge-tailed Eagle, Welcome Swallow, White-winged Chough, Western Wood-Pewee, Wood Warbler, Willie-wagtail, Wandering Albatross, Common WaXbill, Rufous Whistler, Wompoo Fruit Dove, Bohemian waXwing, Desert Wheatear, Black Wheatear, Xema sabini (Sabine’s Gull), Xavier's Greenbul,, Xantus's Murrelet, Streaked Xenops,
Yellow-throated Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Yellowhammer, Yellow-billed Spoonbill, Yellow-faced Honeyeater, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Yellow-crowned Night Heron, Yellow-plumed Honeyeater, Yellow-throated Miner, Yellow-rumped Thornbill, Yellow-throated Scrubwren, Yellow-eyed Penguin, Yellow-headed Blackbird (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus), Yellow-legged Gull, Yellow-crowned Bishop, Zebra Finch, Zosterops lateralis Silvereye, Zone-tailed Hawk, Rufous-collared Sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis), Zitting Cisticola, Zebra Dove,
Black-browed Albatross, Banded Broadbill, Crested Duck, Regent Bowerbird, Eared Dove, House Finch, Giant Wood-Rail, Scarlet Honeyeater, Indigo Capped Hummingbird, Golden Whistler, Keel-billed Toucan, Laced Woodpecker, Mute Swan, Narrow-billed Woodcreeper, Olive-backed Pipit, Australian Pipit, Golden-headed Quetzal, Sword-billed Hummingbird, Booted Racket-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii), White-tailed Eagle, Wrybill, Yellow-bridled Finch,
Ashy-headed Goose, Blue Tit, Chilean Skua, Musk Duck, Eastern Whipbird, Rufous Fantail, Egyptian Goose, Madagascar Harrier-Hawk, Black-shouldered Lapwing, Japanese Thrush, Cassin's Kingbird, Little Grassbird, Mourning Sierra-Finch, Little Pied CormoraNt, Ornate Flycatcher, Pine Grosbeak, Red-tailed Black Cockatoo, Rufous Owl, Spotted Bowerbird, Thick-billed Seed-finch, Upland Goose, Cinereous Vulture (or Black Vulture), White-bellied Sea Eagle, Saffron-crowned Tanager (Tangara xanthocephala), Yellow wagtail, Azara's Spinetail
Australian Reed Warbler, Black stork, Cauca Guan, Black-fronted Dotterel, Eastern Koel, Restless Flycatcher, Great bustard, Brown-headed Honeyeater, Iberian Grey Shrike, White-browed Woodswallow, Gray Kingbird, Little Eagle, Meadow pipit, Northern Giant Petrel, Great Grey Owl, Pied Stilt, Australian Bustard, Red-capped Plover, Short-legged Ground Roller, Striated Thornbill, Pied Butcherbird, Grey-headed Lapwing, White-breasted Woodswallow, Carolina Parakeet, GreY Shrikethrush, Little Grebe,
Australian Swamphen, Cirl bunting, Crested Pigeon, White-faced Whistling Duck, European Roller, Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla), Greylag Goose, Hooded Antpitta, Bar-taIled GodwIt, Kentish Plover, Little Eagle, Mississippi kite, Falco Naumanni (Lesser kestrel), Oxyura australis (Blue-billed Duck), American White Pelican, Brown Quail, Red-kneed Dotterel, Short-toed treecreeper, Red-eared FireTail, Long-wattled Umbrellabird, Mistle thrush (Turdus Viscivorus), Whooper Swan, Yellow-browed Warbler,
Australian Ringneck, Brown Noddy, Caspian Tern, Mandarín Duck (Aix galericulata), Mandarín Duck (Aix galericulata), Black-faced Monarch, Grey Warbler, Spanish Sparrow (Passer hispaniolensis), Inca Tern, Whistling Kite, Common Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra), Middle Spotted Woodpecker, Northern Bald Ibis, Black redstart (Phoenicurus Ochruros), Pale Yellow Robin, Goldcrest, Queen's Park, Swindon, Rufous Songlark, Tundra (Bewick's) Swan, South Island Takahe, Pink-eared Duck, Lammergeier or Bearded Vulture, White-necked Heron, Lesser Yellowlegs, Zorzal alirrojo ((Spanish).- Redwing (Turdus iliacus))

Austral Parakeet, Brown Honeyeater, Cape Petrel, Spangled Drongo, Eurasian siskin, Red-winged Fairywren, Golden-headed Cisticola , Striped Honeyeater, Iberian Chiffchaff, Rufous-tailed Jacamar, Killdeer, Thekla Lark (Galerida theklae), Mistletoebird, Northern Parula, Sooty Oystercatcher, Alpine accentor (Prunella collaris), Gambell's Quail, Rock Bunting (Emberiza cia), Scarlet Myzomela, Scarlet Tanager, Greater White-fronted Goose, Greater Yellowlegs,

Adelaide Rosella, Bernier's Teal, Common Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus Collybita), Black-bellied Whistling Duck, Common Eider, Eurasian Bullfinch, Boat-tailed Grackle, Crescent Honeyeater, Indigo Bunting, American Kestrel, Long-tailed Tit, Mottled Duck, Northern Fulmar, Sooty Owl, Purple Sandpiper, Red-winged Parrot, Stock Dove, Rufous Treecreeper, Willow Tit,

Moustached warbler (Acrocephalus melanopogon), Reed Bunting, Cockatiel, Common Ground Dove, Eurasian Treecreeper, Greater Flamingos, Grey Currawong, Little Blue Heron, Red Knot, Bluethroat (Luscinia svecica), Melodious Warbler, Nashville Warbler, Tengmalm's Owl, Paradise Riflebird, Red-Legged partridge (Alectoris rufa), Savannah Sparrow, Tooth-billed Bowerbird, Common Wood Pigeon

Arctic Tern, Common Buzzard, Cape Petrel, Black-throated Diver, European Greenfinch, Fairy Prion, Great Tit, Singing Honeyeater, Indigo Bunting, Wryneck (Jynx Torquilla), King Vulture, Purple-crowned Lorikeet, Marsh Tit, Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus), Great Horned Owl, Common Pheasant, Clapper Rail, Green sandpiper, Ruddy Turnstone, Canada Warbler

Actitis hypoleucos, (Common Sandpiper), Lesser Black-backed Gull, Hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes), Brown Cuckoo Dove, Eastern Rosella, Flamingo Great Northern Diver (Common Loon), Red-shouldered Hawk, Little Gull, Common Goldeneye, Least Sandpiper, Mallee Ringneck, Northern Mockingbird, Russet-backed Oropendola, Pied Wagtail, Salvin's Albatross, White-winged Triller, White-rumped Swift,

Andean Condor, Beach Stone Curlew (Thick-knee), California Thrasher, Short-billed Dowitcher, Eastern Meadowlark, Fringilla coelebs (Common Chaffinch), Grey Phalarope, Pied Honeyeater, Kaka, RIng-necked parakeet, Least Seedsnipe, Red-breasted Merganser, Northern Cardinal, Common Ringed Plover, Paradise Shelduck, Penduline tit (Remiz pendulinus), Subdesert Mesite,

**There are Chilean Flamingo and Andean Flamingo in this pic, so one is still available to use.),
 
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I hope scientific and local names are permissible, so to start

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Hobby - with a few starlings!
 

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Kingfisher :)
 

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Logrunner (Australian)

These are very difficult to see in the rainforest
 

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Nuthatch

One of the joys of lockdown was finding this nest within walking distance of our flat in Birmingham UK.
 

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(Australian) Pelican
 

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I've heard one Quail, but never seen one, let along got a picture.

I've seen a King Parrot, if I get a picture of a female... can I do that one as a Queen Parrot 😂
 
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