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Focus on: White Wagtail - BirdGuides
WEBMar 1, 2021 · An adult White Wagtail is a fetching bird, especially males. Perhaps the most striking feature is the mantle – clean and silvery-grey, contrasting markedly with the head and wings. This smart appearance is rather different to the dark, smoky and diffuse tones of Pied Wagtail. The rump is pale grey on White Wagtail – black on Pied – but ...
British woodpecker photo ID guide - BirdGuides
WEBMay 10, 2019 · British woodpecker photo ID guide. Compared with continental Europe, Britain is relatively poor for woodpeckers. Of the three species that breed here, two – Great Spotted and Green – are relatively common and widespread. Lesser Spotted, however, is among Britain's fastest-declining species. A fourth species, Wryneck, once …
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Pheasant photo ID guide - BirdGuides
WEBJan 13, 2019 · The bright pale brown heavily-barred plumage, yellowy orbital skin around the eye and yellowish legs identify it as a female Golden Pheasant (Robin Chittenden). Lady Amherst's Pheasant (Sichuan, China, 24 June 2017). This obviously barred female pheasant is also one of the 'exotics'. It resembles female Golden Pheasant, but it …
Female dabbling duck photo ID guide - BirdGuides
WEBFeb 7, 2021 · Female dabbling duck photo ID guide. The 'dabbling ducks' are ubiquitous on lakes and ponds up and down the country, especially in winter when resident birds are joined by migrants from further north seeking warmer climes. But while males are distinctive, more cryptically plumaged females are much more challenging to separate.
Focus on: summer Caspian Gulls - BirdGuides
WEBJul 25, 2015 · A particularly striking adult Caspian Gull in late summer (Photo: Steve Arlow) Caspian Gull's core range extends eastwards from across the Black and Caspian Seas and into Kazakhstan. Over the past couple of decades it has expanded westwards at a considerable rate and now breeds in sizeable colonies across Poland and even eastern Germany, where ...
March ID tips: Woodlark - BirdGuides
WEBMar 1, 2013 · March ID tips: Woodlark. Woodlark is a great March find among a flock of its commoner congener, Skylark. Photo by Steve Young (www.birdsonfilm.com). Among the first birds to start moving in early spring are the larks, and in southern England, Woodlarks are sometimes found mixed in with Skylarks on open terrain on their way back from the near ...
The decline of British starlings - BirdGuides
WEBJul 26, 2019 · The stark facts are that between 1995 and 2016, Britain's breeding population of Common Starling crashed by a staggering 51 per cent. Just let that sink in. It means that there are now only half as many starlings in Britain than when I started watching birds with my dad during the mid-1990s. The situation in England is even worse: we saw an 87 ...
Eurasian Sparrowhawk and Northern Goshawk photo ID guide
WEBFeb 14, 2019 · An encounter with either of Britain's two Accipiter hawk species is always an exciting moment. However, although Eurasian Sparrowhawk and Northern Goshawk are often straightforward to identify on a good view, a brief or distant sighting can be deceptive, particularly for those unfamiliar with the larger species. As a result, Eurasian Sparrowhawk is frequently misidentified as Northern Goshawk ...
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