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Nutcracker

Nutcracker

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Agree Fork-tailed Drongo; added #111 :t:
Ditto to Plains Zebra (Grant's subspecies), Impala

EDIT:
MJB said:
The Fork-tailed Drongo complex is proposed worthy of splitting... Best 'get in there fustest with the mostest' to check the likely taxon....

Fuchs et al 2018. Habitat-driven diversification, hybridization and cryptic diversity in the Fork-tailed Drongo (Passeriformes: Dicruridae: Dicrurus adsimilis). Zool. Scrip. 47: 266–284. doi10.1111/zsc.12274
MJB
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Oh uggh! Any idea which segregate it is!! Guess I'd better leave it out for now?
 
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Stonefaction

Stonefaction

Stuck in Dundee.....
Scotland
Oh uggh! Any idea which segregate it is!! Guess I'd better leave it out for now?
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D. A. Fugax seems to be best fit by range - so still apparently Fork Tailed.....though I've no idea if even that is 'current' with regards splitting. I thought I was doing quite well identifying it as Fork Tailed Drongo....
 
Nutcracker

Nutcracker

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Moved the mystery stork to the 'To be verified' section, list back down to 110 . . .

Red-legged Partridge
Common Pheasant
Helmeted Guineafowl
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
Hardhead
New Zealand Scaup
Tufted Duck
Common Eider
Goosander [Common Merganser]
Common Swift
Alpine Swift
Rock Dove [feral pigeon]
Woodpigeon
Collared 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
Common Sandpiper
Willet
Common Redshank
Black-legged Kittiwake
Black-headed Gull
Silver Gull [Silver & Red-billed sspp]
Laughing Gull
Dolphin Gull
Black-tailed Gull
Common Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Kelp Gull
Slaty-backed Gull
Western Gull
European Herring Gull
American Herring Gull
Yellow-legged Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Forster's Tern
Arctic Tern
Black Guillemot
White 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
Brown Pelican
Turkey Vulture
Griffon Vulture
Black Kite
Red Kite
Hen Harrier
Cinereous Harrier
Bald Eagle
Common Buzzard
Western Osprey
Pied Kingfisher
Common Kestrel
Lesser Kestrel
Australian Magpie
Magpie-lark
Fork-tailed Drongo

Rufous Treepie
Eurasian Magpie
Western Jackdaw
Rook
Carrion Crow
Hooded Crow
Pied Crow
Common Raven
Barn Swallow
Common Starling
Common Blackbird
European Stonechat
White Wagtail
Common Chaffinch
Reed Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird

Awaiting verification:
Slavonian Grebe (post #62)
Falcon (sp.), Bangladesh (post #66)
Great Thrush, Colombia (post #65)
Abdim's / Woolly-necked Stork (posts 218 etc)
Fork-tailed Drongo (posts 221-223)


Mammals

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


(edit: re-add f-t drongo, & buffalo)
 
Seth Miller

Seth Miller

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jurek said:
I think it is a Black-winged Kite with its long wings and short tail.
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Shape does feel decent for Black-winged Kite, but habitat is not right. The Botanical gardens is one of the most wooded spots in Dhaka, and I've never seen Black-winged Kites in Dhaka or heard of anyone else seeing them there. I do see them fairly regularly right outside of Dhaka, but always around grasslands/farmland. Probably just needs to remain raptor sp.
 
jurek

jurek

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Common Tern
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.078...=67.53836&pitch=0&thumbfov=100!7i13312!8i6656
Caspian Gulls
https://www.google.com/maps/@46.542...4!1sSRICyN-f-ZYlpzCAPfxwBA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@46.542...4!1sSRICyN-f-ZYlpzCAPfxwBA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@46.542...4!1s0rXNNB0BahGjL7q5WOr9Ow!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Great White Pelican (there is a whole sequence of taking off and flying on half a dozen shots before and after)
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.068...4!1sWRys9ynJpBC1AeMBsC6vbg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.068...4!1s2muD1LfgqOpuvdPyrpTXUw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
...another one:
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.040...4!1sreE4UnwyXIexkZgU5lidrQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.040...4!1sRx3BfTxUjlekcRxZCnCu7A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.038...4!1serHDXySUV41CsEgtKTYHdw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
...another (or the same overtook the boat? Who would expect that in Danube Delta rivers are roads, so Google Street View was photographed from both cars and motorboats.)
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.038...4!1s4NiCOXBhdEJ4RvgjNAZP2w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
These two raptors from Transpantanaleira should be identifable by somebody who is more current with raptors of Brazil than me:
https://www.google.com/maps/@-16.42...4!1sOgOG_LNFkfCXbhFEmbb15A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
I am disappointed with Transpantanaleira - all I could find were some dragonflies and egrets. In the field, there were zillions of birds, together with caimans basking on the roadside.

For me, the stork is definitely Marabou. Huge compared to the roof, very long legs, the body is grey, not black. On the second shot it is actually looking over the shoulder towards the camera, and one can see well its huge bill and the baldness.
 
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Nutcracker

Nutcracker

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Seth Miller said:
Shape does feel decent for Black-winged Kite, but habitat is not right. The Botanical gardens is one of the most wooded spots in Dhaka, and I've never seen Black-winged Kites in Dhaka or heard of anyone else seeing them there. I do see them fairly regularly right outside of Dhaka, but always around grasslands/farmland. Probably just needs to remain raptor sp.
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Agree; deleted it from the reserve list :-O


Seth Miller said:
Do you want to count this Spotted Dove? https://www.google.com/maps/@20.983...4!1saxi1PbhmIMQA-25ratIKXg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
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No, it's even worse than the pigeon I found in Argentina [here]! 3:)
 
Nutcracker

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jurek said:
Common Tern
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.0789494,21.2103842,3a,47.5y,305.17h,98.47t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sTSXJ9MwyEBFK5NVZzOXaqA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DTSXJ9MwyEBFK5NVZzOXaqA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D67.53836%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656
Caspian Gulls
https://www.google.com/maps/@46.542...4!1sSRICyN-f-ZYlpzCAPfxwBA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@46.542...4!1sSRICyN-f-ZYlpzCAPfxwBA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@46.542...4!1s0rXNNB0BahGjL7q5WOr9Ow!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Great White Pelican (there is a whole sequence of taking off and flying on half a dozen shots before and after)
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.068...4!1sWRys9ynJpBC1AeMBsC6vbg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.068...4!1s2muD1LfgqOpuvdPyrpTXUw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
...another one:
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.040...4!1sreE4UnwyXIexkZgU5lidrQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.040...4!1sRx3BfTxUjlekcRxZCnCu7A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.038...4!1serHDXySUV41CsEgtKTYHdw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
...another (or the same overtook the boat? Who would expect that in Danube Delta rivers are roads, so Google Street View was photographed from both cars and motorboats.)
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.038...4!1s4NiCOXBhdEJ4RvgjNAZP2w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
These two raptors from Transpantanaleira should be identifable by somebody who is more current with raptors of Brazil than me:
https://www.google.com/maps/@-16.42...4!1sOgOG_LNFkfCXbhFEmbb15A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
I am disappointed with Transpantanaleira - all I could find were some dragonflies and egrets. In the field, there were zillions of birds, together with caimans basking on the roadside.

For me, the stork is definitely Marabou. Huge compared to the roof, very long legs, the body is grey, not black. On the second shot it is actually looking over the shoulder towards the camera, and one can see well its huge bill and the baldness.
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It does seem strange to have google street view from a boat, but it is listed as google street view, so they're in, 111 Common Tern, 112 Caspian Gull, 113 Great White Pelican :t:


I fear I still can't see a Marabou in that stork! Granted I've never seen one in the wild, but this bird just doesn't have the huge pink head and grotesque bill - nor the gular pouch, or the upright body stance, either - of photos I've seen. Seems Woolly-necked will use rooftops (alamy stock photo), so that remains a candidate for me. EDIT: comparing with people in the same pics, I'd estimate it is standing about a metre tall at the most, not the metre-and-a-half of a Marabou
 
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jurek

jurek

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Common Tern is not on the list, yet. Even more strangely, nobody found a Ring-billed Gull on Street View, either.
 
kb57

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Europe
Nutcracker said:
They'll do for me! #114. Now can you find a Mistle Thrush somewhere in Durham?? o:D I've searched all over Northumbs for one and still none yet.
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Excellent news - pleased to know it's passed the Rarities Committee!

Presume you've tried Gosforth Central Park and Leazes Park (do they have Street View in their footpaths?)?

Will have a go, but can't think of a really obvious spot in Durham to search, I reckon you might stand more chance somewhere like Regent's Park in London, again if that has views from footpaths.
 
Nutcracker

Nutcracker

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Stonefaction said:
A hopefully more convincing selection of Marabou Storks. The skies over Kampala are full of large storks (and Black Kites).

https://goo.gl/maps/vy2ezF6n9GveKm4CA
https://goo.gl/maps/uwBUYjDxdPqmnkkj8
https://goo.gl/maps/BDNG2W5pzsAWL5cP9

....and the sky.....
https://goo.gl/maps/EYZpnpSY551EaFbg6
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They'll do nicely, massive neck pouch on that second link
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#115


[EDIT] any of the kites got yellow bills? Yellow-billed Kite split by IOC :t:


kb57 said:
Excellent news - pleased to know it's passed the Rarities Committee!
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:-O
kb57 said:
Presume you've tried Gosforth Central Park and Leazes Park (do they have Street View in their footpaths?)?

Will have a go, but can't think of a really obvious spot in Durham to search, I reckon you might stand more chance somewhere like Regent's Park in London, again if that has views from footpaths.
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No GSV in any of Newcastle's parks; I've been concentrating on footy fields in the west of the city (places like this), that's a good Mistle area. Less chance in London, they're actually scarcer down there than up here - they like it cool. Alternatively, places in the hills like the Allendales are full of Mistlers, but I've yet to find one on GSV.
 
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