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<blockquote data-quote="Touty" data-source="post: 4097597" data-attributes="member: 3725"><p>... what's missed is mystery.</p><p></p><p>Absolutely horrible, miserable day in Trieste. Cold, driving rain with snow up in the Karst above the city. Yuck. Not a lot of news on the living bird front, though there is a Pink-footed Goose (<em>Anser brachyrhynchus</em>) with the Greylag Geese (<em>A. anser</em>). Sixth record for Italy (if accepted).</p><p></p><p>Didn't make a lot of progress today. Lots of odd weaver birds and no really good book to help me sort them out. I may put away all the Ploceidae until I get a decent book to sort them out. There are 117 species and a lot of them are very similar.</p><p></p><p>Anyway. Three more birds today:</p><p></p><p>First is a rather forlorn-looking New World Oriole / Blackbird type. About Golden Oriole in size. I've no idea:</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://home.xnet.it/tout/mystery_bird12a.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><span style="color: Sienna">Scarlet-headed Blackbird, (<em>Amblyramphus holosericeus</em>)</span></p><p></p><p>Second is a brightly-coloured tanager type. I think it MIGHT be a Chestnut-bellied Mountain-tanager (<em>Delothraupis castaneoventris</em>) but the picture I have in the book is so poor that I can't be sure. Sparrow-sized.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://home.xnet.it/tout/mystery_bird13a.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><span style="color: sienna">Fawn-breasted Tanager (<em>Pipraeidea melanota</em>)</span></p><p></p><p>The third and final bird is a bit confusing. It looks very familiar but is very grubby. It's about the size of a Eurasian Jay or a bit smaller and the label says '<em>Garrulus</em>' 'Indie?'. I wondered if it might be a Laughing Thrush <em>Garrulax</em> of some kind, or a bulbul.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://home.xnet.it/tout/mystery_bird14a.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><span style="color: sienna">Chinese Laughing-thrush (<em>Garrulax chinensis</em>)</span></p><p></p><p>More tomorrow.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Touty, post: 4097597, member: 3725"] ... what's missed is mystery. Absolutely horrible, miserable day in Trieste. Cold, driving rain with snow up in the Karst above the city. Yuck. Not a lot of news on the living bird front, though there is a Pink-footed Goose ([I]Anser brachyrhynchus[/I]) with the Greylag Geese ([I]A. anser[/I]). Sixth record for Italy (if accepted). Didn't make a lot of progress today. Lots of odd weaver birds and no really good book to help me sort them out. I may put away all the Ploceidae until I get a decent book to sort them out. There are 117 species and a lot of them are very similar. Anyway. Three more birds today: First is a rather forlorn-looking New World Oriole / Blackbird type. About Golden Oriole in size. I've no idea: [CENTER][IMG]http://home.xnet.it/tout/mystery_bird12a.jpg[/IMG][/CENTER] [COLOR="Sienna"]Scarlet-headed Blackbird, ([I]Amblyramphus holosericeus[/I])[/COLOR] Second is a brightly-coloured tanager type. I think it MIGHT be a Chestnut-bellied Mountain-tanager ([I]Delothraupis castaneoventris[/I]) but the picture I have in the book is so poor that I can't be sure. Sparrow-sized. [CENTER][IMG]http://home.xnet.it/tout/mystery_bird13a.jpg[/IMG][/CENTER] [COLOR="sienna"]Fawn-breasted Tanager ([I]Pipraeidea melanota[/I])[/COLOR] The third and final bird is a bit confusing. It looks very familiar but is very grubby. It's about the size of a Eurasian Jay or a bit smaller and the label says '[I]Garrulus[/I]' 'Indie?'. I wondered if it might be a Laughing Thrush [I]Garrulax[/I] of some kind, or a bulbul. [CENTER][IMG]http://home.xnet.it/tout/mystery_bird14a.jpg[/IMG][/CENTER] [COLOR="sienna"]Chinese Laughing-thrush ([I]Garrulax chinensis[/I])[/COLOR] More tomorrow. [/QUOTE]
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