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30-05-2009, 09:29 AM
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| | | What was that bird ? ? ?
Hi - I'm adding this thread here to see if anyone can help me identify/name a bird I saw yesterday - didn't have my camera with me, so have no visual to help!
I was visiting a Garden Centre just outside Edinburgh (Scotland) yesterday and heard a really loud bird call from the car park - something vaguely like a seagull or a baby's cry. Very distinctive. Very loud. Garden centre is on a large site, and is located quite near a motorway.
It was a medium sized bird (bigger than a blackbird or a magpie), mainly black but with some white feathers, long red sharp beak, long spindly red legs, and it didn't fly off even when one or two people approached it quite closely. It just continued to strut about!
Nobody seemed to know what it was and we agreed that we'd never seen anything like it before ; can you help? Any pic/photo/image would really help as I reckon I'd recognise it on sight.
Kind regards
Frances |
30-05-2009, 09:41 AM
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| | | Re: What was that bird ? ? ?
Welcome to WAB! It was an Oystercatcher, Haematopus ostralegus |
30-05-2009, 09:54 AM
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| | | Re: What was that bird ? ? ?
Or possibly a Chough? Normally all black though - try this link The RSPB: Chough |
30-05-2009, 10:34 AM
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I would go with Oystercatcher, Choughs ain't too common around cities. 
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30-05-2009, 11:04 AM
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...or Scotland! |
30-05-2009, 11:16 AM
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Did it sound like this?: The RSPB: Oystercatcher
I'd definitely agree with Jason.
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30-05-2009, 11:19 AM
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...is the right answer!  |
30-05-2009, 11:22 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jason Green  ...or Scotland! |
Choughs breed on the west coast of Scotland Jason, though admittedly not too common. 
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30-05-2009, 11:23 AM
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Ah...  Shhh Ron... maybe no-one noticed  !! |
31-05-2009, 10:00 AM
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| | | The Oystercatcher
Hi and thanks for your responses to my query.
Yup, I reckon it was the Oystercatcher - and I enjoyed reading the repartee amongst you all in your feedback!
Cheers
Frances | | | |
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