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        Discussion Area 討論區 >> Bird Identification 鳥類辨識 >>  Practicing Bird Identification
        
(Message started by: bfspoonbill on Oct 10^th, 2002, 11:44pm)

Title: Practicing Bird Identification
Post by bfspoonbill on Oct 10^th, 2002, 11:44pm

Learnt from an article "Re: 【郊遊記錄 -鳥兒】03" dd 10/10/02 14:06 in newsgroup news.hkpcug.org/hkpcug.digital-photography that there are some beautiful bird photos.

Anyway, I would like to practice bird identification. Can anyone help me?

Link URL : http://www.pbase.com/jopat/galleries
Target URL : http://www.pbase.com/jopat/birds

From left to right and from top to bottom:-

(p.1)
Blackbird male
Blackbird male
"fat pigeon" ???
"fat pigeon" ???
Blackbird female
Blackbird female
Slaty-Backed Gull (seems to be the same as below)
Slaty-Backed Gull (black legs ???)
Slaty-Backed Gull (?????)
Slaty-Backed Gull (black legs ???)
unknown smaller one (attractive yellow spot on wing and red face) and unknown larger one
unknown smaller three (attractive yellow spot on wing and red face)

(p.2)
unknown smaller one (attractive yellow spot on wing and red face)
?????
?????
Blackbird (???)
last four pictures : look like white eyes but it's yellow behind the beak

Title: Re: Practicing Bird Identification
Post by Koel_Ko on Oct 11^th, 2002, 8:11pm

Please tell me if I am wrong in these ID:
On the first page the fat pigeons are New Zealand Pigeons. The Gulls are Dominican Gulls. The little birds with a red face are Goldfinches.
On the second page the bird with a neat grey face is a Dunnock. The White-eye-like birds are Silvereyes. The Spotted ones are European Starlings.
And how I admire these beautiful photos!!

Title: Re: Practicing Bird Identification
Post by Justin_Jansen on Oct 11^th, 2002, 10:10pm

The last answers are all correct in my opion!

Cheers, Justin