What and where Bird Quiz (1 Viewer)

[phil baber]

Where's Birdy?...Who's Birdy? Round #2: The Sequel

#1 THE BEST OF FRONDS!

Menorca, May 2011

Identify species: 2
Location in photo: 1
Identifying photo(s) in which Birdy appears: 1

Argh! Nobobody has ANY points yet! :eek!:

Good luck everybody!:t:B

ps Bonus points for any Gecko found. Not that I can see any!

 

[Jonny721]

hmm I'm questioning why I carry on this quiz after seeing these shots, drive me mad! really struggling with these but maybe a Scops Owl right at the bottom in the middle of the second photo?

 

[phil baber]

Don't question it! You're in the lead already!:eek!:

AFAIK I didn't capture any other Scops Owls in any of the other photos. Even though Scops were present everytime I took a flash photo.

I even doctored the photo to just show the head!

A big pat on the back for that Jonny! :t:

Here's the leader-board...

Jonny721: 4 points

 

[phil baber]

Occasionally this quiz will introduce other Wildlife into the equation...This is not a Birdy!

#2 What's Behind The Bin?

Is Baber grubbing around for discarded food, or has he found something behind the Trash?:eek!:

(Location: Menorca, May)

Point for Animal's Family (ie Insect, Crustacean, Mollusc etc), for Animal Type( ie Beetle, Frog, Mouse etc) ; and for exact species: 3 points.

When I do the reveal get your Google fingers ready....

 

[WACCOE]

Insect,Cockroach.

 

[Jonny721]

reptile, lizard, sand lizard (dont even know if you get them in menorca:-O)

 

[phil baber]

1 point for Reptile.

 

[neil78]

Probably a Gecko?

 

[phil baber]

1 point for Gecko.

Fingers on Google, or Field Guides to Herps, for the reveal.... 3 points on this one...B

 

[phil baber]

Jonny721: 5
neil78: 1

3 points still available on the Gecko ID!

More soon...:cat:

 

[lou salomon]

looks like Tarentola mauritanica. but, strictly speaking, is it a lizzard? i thought not?

 

[Welsh Peregrine]

Moorish Gecko Tarentola mauretanicus

 

[WACCOE]

Moorish Gecko, think only two types of Gecko found on Menorca the other been Turkish.

 

[Jonny721]

damn I should have known that the only reptile I saw on nearby Mallorca was a gecko!

 

[phil baber]

Yes Lou. But for the purposes of quiz. I wanted to narrow it down to type specifics. After all, even though there are more species of Gecko than any other lizard, it is known, in english as Moorish Gecko...,or, Common or Moorish Wall Gecko and Salamanquesa , Crocodile gecko , European common gecko , and Maurita naca gecko. And universally as Tarentola mauritanica.
And Jonny, other reptiles are available in the Balearics...but Moorish Gecko is certainly the commonest. And if it was on a vertical surface, it probably was one!:-O
This little fellow was hiding behind the window shutters, and then bolted down the wall to hide behind a bin, where I was "snapped" by the paparazzi! :-C


Jonny721: 5
Waccoe: 3
Welsh Peregrine: 3
lou salomon: 3
neil78: 1

 

[phil baber]

#3 Fig 1

Species: 2
Location in Photo: 1
Number present: 1

AFAIK only 1 species here. Son Bou, Menorca, May 2011.

 

[lou salomon]

grrrrr. female stonechat on top of gate, middle veertical bar. (entrance to a yeard?) in the right part of pic, gate is below the tree, right of the trunk.

 

[The Hairy Highlander]

Ho ho, so it was a draw then!! Aw well, I'll need to try harder this time...:t:

I'll have a pop at common redstart, in the same place Lou has said - on the gate, bottom middle, right of tree trunk....

 

[WACCOE]

House Sparrow same place as above.

 

[phil baber]

For the first time you people have found a bird I didn't see!:eek!:

Although it looks like it is perched on the gate, it is in fact on the grass in the field behind...optical illusion....

So you each get a point for this. But you haven't got the right species.
However, it is another example of the species in question! Here's a helpful crop.
Once you've sorted the species go looking for any more in the bigger picture...:-C

(I'm making this all far too easy, as usual!:-O)