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<blockquote data-quote="Redshank3" data-source="post: 3365639" data-attributes="member: 89786"><p>Whilst looking up planning a break to the Isle of Wight (UK) I noticed a part of the main tourist information website that appeared to be about birding on the island.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.visitisleofwight.co.uk/things-to-do/activities/bird-watching" target="_blank">http://www.visitisleofwight.co.uk/things-to-do/activities/bird-watching</a></p><p></p><p>Please check out the photo!</p><p></p><p></p><p>Clearly not a UK bird, I suspect it has been used as the image for this thanks to someone with no wildlife knowledge google searching a bird name and then using the first hit they get as their image without checking what it really is.</p><p></p><p>I can recall seeing quite a few bird calendars over the years with American Goldfinch and American Robin instead of the European species (in these instances very obvious what was searched for and how the mistake made) but this photo today seems the oddest I have seen. </p><p></p><p>Does anyone know what species this is they have pictured? </p><p></p><p>Has anyone seen any worse misplaced photos?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Tom</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Redshank3, post: 3365639, member: 89786"] Whilst looking up planning a break to the Isle of Wight (UK) I noticed a part of the main tourist information website that appeared to be about birding on the island. [URL="http://www.visitisleofwight.co.uk/things-to-do/activities/bird-watching"]http://www.visitisleofwight.co.uk/things-to-do/activities/bird-watching[/URL] Please check out the photo! Clearly not a UK bird, I suspect it has been used as the image for this thanks to someone with no wildlife knowledge google searching a bird name and then using the first hit they get as their image without checking what it really is. I can recall seeing quite a few bird calendars over the years with American Goldfinch and American Robin instead of the European species (in these instances very obvious what was searched for and how the mistake made) but this photo today seems the oddest I have seen. Does anyone know what species this is they have pictured? Has anyone seen any worse misplaced photos? Tom [/QUOTE]
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