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Help with bird ID (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter _Prism_
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Welsh Peregrine
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It is a White Stork.
_Prism_
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I suspected it might be a stork, but didn't think they were native to the UK (at least according to Wikipedia)!
Reintroduced in the last couple of years
Sangahyando
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Well, they do breed on people's roofs on the continent, so "tameness" isn't necessarily a criterion...
And are such birds, when away from their breeding grounds, approachable? I rather think not, or they wouldn't survive long in Africa without being eaten.
Sangahyando
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Well, they do keep some distance when foraging in the fields, but are less shy than e.g. Common Cranes and far less so than Black Storks. Assuming the OP has a decent enough zoom on his camera, it could just be a "regular" wild bird (or more likely, a re-wilded one - in which case it could admittedly be more tame than usual).
_Prism_
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Actually the photo was taken from my wife's phone camera, which has a very powerful 5x zoom! The bird was looked like it was nesting and was across a stream from us (I'd estimate approx. 20-25 meters away). It was spotted while we were hiking around Gloucestershire.
