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| Just for a bit of fun, can you guess what bird I saw today? I'll give you a clue. It was a small bird, uncommon, not seen usually in either the Ythan or Girdleness, is migratory and has a yellow-orange beak speckled in black, a green crest with green-blue wings, is streamlined with the wind and appears high up on the Royal Bird Index. Can you guess it? | ||
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| Is it some kind of thrush? | |||
| Posted by Frunchy | |||
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| sounds like a mature endo tern | |||
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| an underhen! | |||
| Posted by mandy-sue | |||
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| Frunchy is closest so far.
Mandy-Sue, are you serious? I'd like to meet the person who could spot an underhen in Aberdeen at this time of year! | |||
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| some kind of Flan hawk perhaps? | |||
| Posted by Trevor Eve | |||
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| Sounds like a whittocked thrush to me. Relatively unusual so far north... well done!
Charlie Horsedennis | |||
| Posted by Anonymous | |||
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| A starling? | |||
| Posted by bird-luvva | |||
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| A blackbird? | |||
| Posted by bird-luvva | |||
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| A herring gull? | |||
| Posted by bird-luvva | |||
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| I cant take the tension any longer, tell us, please.
was it a Brindled badgoose | |||
| Posted by frustrated | |||
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| a pigeon? | |||
| Posted by bird-luvva | |||
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| TELL US!!!
Is it a tit (blue/coal, probably not great)? | |||
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| Well, thank-you all for your guesses, albeit some of them were terrible to the extent that I wonder if you actually know anything about birds. Bird-luvva, were you drunk when you made some of these guesses?
Well, a whittocked thrush was the closest guess received - the bird I saw was in fact a close relative. It was... ...the Blatant Horse Thrush. Presumably blown off course during its summer migration from the East. | |||
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| I WUZ JUST GESSIN' COS I AM JUST LEARNIN'!!! DONT MOCK THA YOUTH!!!! | |||
| Posted by bird-luvva | |||
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