The Bird-A-Day Challenge Has Begun
The Bird-A-Day Challenge is off to a strong start. A New Year's Day trip to the coast yielded one of the birds best known for its haunting calls. Day two produced a bird nicknamed the bluebill. Can you id these birds?
Day 1
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Day 2
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Informative post. I will
Informative post. I will soon be posting about these two birds in my website
To bad that I was not there
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Over here in the UK it's
Over here in the UK it's Red-throated Diver. My wife and I are keen birders and living in the south of England we can only get see divers in the winter or on migration. We are counting species as well this year but we've still got to find Greater Scaup and Red-throated Diver although we did manage to get a Lesser Scaup at Slimbridge WWT on 2nd January.
It is a Red-Throated Loon
It is a Red-Throated Loon but in our state it's called Red-throated Diver
Thanks for your
Thanks for your replies!
Answer:
Day 1: Red-Throated Loon
Day 2: Greater Scaup
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If the second bird is
If the second bird is nicvknamed the bluebill, then it's correctly the lesser scaup. ON the other hand, I have dickens of a time distinguishing the two.
Red-throated Loon in
Red-throated Loon in breeding plumage - doesn't look like this now.
Greater Scaup, male. Difference between lesser and greater. Green head greater, purple head lesser; peak in front greater, peak in back lesser; round head greater, head with a cowlick in the back lesser.
mispelled my own name, goes
mispelled my own name, goes to show when I give the real name instead of my pseudonym.
Red-throated Loon and
Red-throated Loon and Greater Scaup (male).
Pacific Loon Scaup sp.
Pacific Loon
Scaup sp. Lesser I think?
Let me try that again. Red
Let me try that again. Red throated Loon!!!
And again a correction?
And again a correction? Maybe?
Greater Scaup ?? LOL I am trying... have never seen either of these birds YET *SMILE*