Name a Bird You've Photographed (4 Viewers)

[Oregonian]

3545. Grey Fantail, Rhipidura albiscapa
Stirling Range National Park--Moingup Springs Campground, Gnowangerup, Western Australia
September 2018

 

[dandsblair]

3546 Sunda (malaysian) Pied Fantail - Bali, Indonesia
Rhipidura javanica

 

[Oregonian]

I don't have any more fantails, but here's a wagtail:
3547. Cape Wagtail, Motacilla capensis
Bwindi, Uganda 2022

 

[delia todd]

but here's a wagtail:

Going with tail

3458 Rufous Fantail
Rhipidura rufifrons
Taromeo Dist Forest, Queensland

 

[delia todd]

Just over 2 months in and we're not far off a third of the world's total species. I find myself wondering how long it took the Opus editors to get to having photos of a third of the world's species via the means of asking nicely rather than making a game of it.

I can't go back to the beginning, as that was the previous Database and I didn't have anything to do with that.

Opus started with 10,354 species of which we had 7,772 images.

Last October, the last date those stats were updated (and the last Clements update is still being worked through) we had 10,901 bird species listed, of which 8860 currently have an image taken or produced by our members.

I'm hoping to revise the stats for next month. Still working through Mark Harper's Gallery as he's been adding quite a few lately (just did 3 over the last couple of days).

I always ask nicely, even if they are in this thread (which was absolutely nothing to do with me) - don't I Paul and Jeff. I was late starting, but began at the beginning of the thread - had to stop for a while as got busy with other stuff too. But will pick it up again later on.

If anyone really doesn't want their picture to be included on the relevant Opus article, you just have to say and I won't bother you.

 

[Paul Chapman]

I have no proper fantails left and I only have one wagtail left but there are lots of "tail" tangents. Nevertheless, also called Fantail...

3549. Yellow-bellied Fantail Chelidorhynx hypoxanthus Thailand

All the best

Paul

 

[Paul Chapman]

I always ask nicely, even if they are in this thread (which was absolutely nothing to do with me) - don't I Paul and Jeff.

Entirely nicely even if those you ask are still very tardy and behind in their photo-editing.... 😀

 

[delia todd]

Tut tut Paul... you've just knocked 90 off the total

 

[Paul Chapman]

Tut tut Paul... you've just knocked 90 off the total

Transposition corrected but it appears that I got the error from the previous figure. 😅

 

[delia todd]

Transposition corrected but it appears that I got the error from the previous figure. 😅

OMG!!! And I looked at that twice before making my post!!!

Sorry!!!

 

[Oregonian]

Clements calls the last fantail a fairy-fantail, so I go with the fairy bit to get this in:
3450. Sternula nereis, Fairy Tern (IOC), Australian Fairy Tern (Clements), Sternula nereis
This is the New Zealand subspecies, one of 40 or so alive in 2018 when we saw this one.

 

[Paul Chapman]

A couple of fighting terns:-

3551. Inca Tern Larosterna inca Peru

One of my favourite pics from last year so this one at least avoids being back of camera!

All the best

Paul

 

[Oregonian]

3452. River Tern, Sterna aurantia
India

 

[Paul Chapman]

Another tern:-

3553. White-cheeked Tern Sterna repressa Kuwait

And as I had the folder open an already played Bridled Tern pic from the same pelagic off Kuwait.

All the best

Paul

 

[Oregonian]

3454. Black-bellied Tern, Sterna acuticauda
From the same trip as the River Tern on the Chambal River in India March 2022

 

[Paul Chapman]

My last tern with a pic...

3555. Australian Tern Gelochelidon macrotarsa Australia

All the best

Paul

 

[Oregonian]

I'm not sure I have more terns, but the same family includes gulls:
3456. Western Gull, Larus occidentalis, Oregon December 2016

 

[Paul Chapman]

One of the commonest unplayed European species so back to my patch........

3557. Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus Somerset, England

All the best

Paul

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

I always ask nicely, even if they are in this thread (which was absolutely nothing to do with me) - don't I Paul and Jeff. I was late starting, but began at the beginning of the thread - had to stop for a while as got busy with other stuff too. But will pick it up again later on.

You always ask nicely. And of course I'm always willing to have a pic added to Opus.

In fact, the pictures that I tend to put in the gallery are ones that are not in Opus or are very uncommon for that very reason.

 

[Oregonian]

3458. Yellow-footed Gull, Larus livens
Bahia de Los Angeles, Baja California 2013