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16-04-2008, 03:10 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified birds - need your help, pls....
The second isn't a mallard, but a whistling duck probably a fulvous whistling duck Dendrocygna bicolor - non-native but a gorgeous bird probably escaped from somewhere. |
16-04-2008, 03:37 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified birds - need your help, pls....
Can I recommend a book to you?
I find Field Guide to Birds of Britain and Northern Europe (Paperback)
by Detlef Singer very good. Lots if useful information as well as nice clear colour photos 
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16-04-2008, 06:15 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified birds - need your help, pls....
Wow Gill, thank you soo much for identifying the whistling duck - you are absolutely spot on, i put Dendrocygna bicolor in a google search of images and it returned some lovely photos of the duck we saw. Thanks again - its great to know his name!  |
16-04-2008, 07:59 PM
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The 1st picture is definately a cormorant. |
16-04-2008, 08:11 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified birds - need your help, pls....
looks like a cormorant to me too.. james |
16-04-2008, 08:56 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified birds - need your help, pls....
deffo a cormorant for the first although second has me beat
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16-04-2008, 10:44 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gill Catton  The second isn't a mallard, but a whistling duck probably a fulvous whistling duck Dendrocygna bicolor - non-native but a gorgeous bird probably escaped from somewhere. | As Gill confirmed the second picture is that of the Fulvous whistling duck, I took this picture At the Wetland centre near Llanelli in S. Wales.  |
17-04-2008, 05:47 PM
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