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Answer all of your rarity questions instantly! Our British & Irish Records Archive enables you to explore ALL historical records of British and Irish rarities accepted up to the end of 2016 – from a database of more than 32,000 records. At the click of a mouse you can find out the status of 340 rare species and forms in Britain and Ireland.
British woodpecker photo ID guide - BirdGuides
May 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 bred sporadically ...
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Searching for day-flying moths - BirdGuides
Jun 6, 2020 · Eyes and a camera are the basic tools needed for day-flying moths, but to see many more smaller species a net is essential. I use a standard white 'Kite' net bag, with metal frame and extended handle, available here. Small micro-moths are much easier to see and extract off a white background, though you need to be extremely careful when potting ...
Great and Double-crested Cormorants and European Shag photo …
Nov 24, 2020 · Add to this an extreme Nearctic rarity, Double-crested Cormorant, and you have identification conundrums suitable for all levels of birder. Keith Vinicombe presents our definitive ID guide to help you sort out tricky subspecies, confusing coastal wanderers and a truly extreme vagrant. Adult Great Cormorant (Ipswich, Suffolk, 27 January 2014).
Tufted Duck, Greater Scaup and Lesser Scaup photo ID guide
Nov 29, 2019 · This bird shows a small, rather Lesser Scaup-like head combined with a rather Tufted Duck-like rear crown tuft and a large bulky Greater Scaup-like body. The mantle is grey but appears very smooth, lacking even the soft vermiculations of Greater Scaup, while the bill shows extensive dark at the bill tip.
Spring yellow wagtails photo ID guide - BirdGuides
May 17, 2021 · Grey-headed Wagtail (Al Abraq, Kuwait, 22 April 2015). Classic male thunbergi in spring has a grey head with slightly darker ear coverts and no white supercilium (though a few may have a faint line behind the eye); this bird has unmarked yellow underparts, but some show a 'necklace' of dark spots.
Black Grouse, Capercaillie, Red Grouse and Ptarmigan Photo
May 14, 2018 · The plumage is black with a green-glossed breast, prominent red ‘combs’, brown wings and dark (albeit barred white) undertail coverts. The females are much smaller than the males and might be mistaken for female Black Grouse. They are, however, still larger than that species, and stronger billed and longer tailed.
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