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A very welcome lifer! For some reason I thought I would never see one of these. We came across a pair at Girraween national park.
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from wiki: The chalk-browed mockingbird's song is loud, a "varied series of notes, trills, [and] phrases". Its calls include a "sharp and penetrating 'tshrip'" and a "snorting sha-sha-sha". It often mimics other species including some raptors.
Yellow-browed Warbler is a puzzling bird in many ways. Its closest breeding area is just west of the Urals, which is at least 3000km from Britain, yet hundreds turn up in Britain each year, particularly in autumn. The species breeds right across the taiga zone and winters widely in Nepal, southern China and the Malay peninsula. So birds would generally fly about 6000km southeast to reach their wintering grounds. So why do hundreds fly 3000km west (ie the wrong direction) to reach Britain? I wonder if there is now an undiscovered wintering area in Africa that has established recently and so these "vagrants" reaching Britain are just stopping off on their normal migration to Africa. At least one Yellow-browed Warbler has occurred in Senegal in December.
Anyway there were an unbelievable 27 Yellow-browed Warblers in the Spurn area yesterday, and I managed to find two of these myself as I was wandering along the peninsula, including this little poser. They are small birds, considerably smaller than a Chiffchaff, but this crop makes it look large. There was a bit of clutter right and left so I opted for a portrait crop.
Its scientific name, Phylloscopus inornatus, is also a bit of a puzzle. Phylloscopus means leaf-gleaner and it is the same genus as Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler and Wood Warbler. But inornatus means undecorated or inornate, yet it has more stripes and bars than its undecorated cousins. That is because when Edward Blyth first described it new to science back in 1842, he thought it was a type of Goldcrest but lacking the golden crown. So Blyth named it Regulus inornatus, the undecorated Goldcrest or Kinglet.
Loica Argentina, White-browed Meadowlark, Leistes superciliaris.
A rare vagrant in Chile
Especie # 1.759
Tierra Amarilla
Región de Atacama
Chile
Partially Obscured. I thought I'd publish since the eye, part of the white eyebrow mark and the unique "chevron" marks on the wing leading edge are visible. These birds were once commonplace.
Quiet and unobtrusive little birds which spend a lot of time on the ground eating grass seeds in small groups. When disturbed they fly up into a nearby tree until danger passes.
Four of a family of approx. eight White-browed Babblers (Pomatostomus superciliosus) dust bathing in the late evening at Terrick Terrick National Park, central Victoria, Australia. I know little about this behaviour, but apparently birds do this to remove parasites. So far, I've seen White-browed Babblers, Rainbow Bee-eaters and White-winged Choughs doing this.
The rufous-browed flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Scientific name: Anthipes solitaris
f/8, 840mm, shutter speed 1/13, ISO 800. on tripod. Cropped
The White-browed Coucal can be difficult to see due to its habit of skulking in shrubbery, undergrowth and dense waterside vegetation.
So I guess I shouldn’t be too upset it’s partially obscured by twigs…but I am!! 😂
As with other Coucals, the White-browed Coucal is non-parasitic. The males construct a nest, they then incubate the eggs and provide most of the feeding and care for the young ❤️
Name: Black-browed barbet
Scientific: Psilopogon oorti
Malay: Takur Kening-hitam / Takur Bukit
Family: Ramphastidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2016): Least Concern
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I chanced upon this Yellow-browed Warbler as I was walking back along Spurn peninsula last Monday. It was the call which alerted me to its presence; a loud disyllabic tsoo-eest that drops on the first syllable and rises on the second. If you want to listen here's a recording from the excellent Xeno Canto website www.xeno-canto.org/528700 . I managed to photograph this individual while it was calling with its bill open. It is smaller and brighter than Chiffchaff or Willow Warbler, with a really prominent eyebrow and two pale wing bars.
Yellow-browed Warbler is a scarce passage migrant to Britain, but whose status has increased markedly in recent decades. From 1950-62 there was an average of 10 records in Britain per year but by 1980 there were more than 300 per year. And after all the easterly winds and rain yesterday there must have been 300 in Britain on that single day. They breed across Siberia in the taiga zone but mainly east of the Ural Mountains. A small population occurred west of the Urals but was described as "fairly scarce" in 1950. By 1990 this population west of the Urals was "locally abundant" with 45-46,000 breeding pairs. That may help explain the increase in numbers in Britain, though the increase in knowledgeable birdwatchers has also helped. But the thing I cannot explain is why these birds fly west to Britain. They should fly about 6000km SE to Indo-China, but instead hundreds fly 3000km west to end up in Britain. I presume these birds migrate south to winter in Africa though an African wintering population has not yet been discovered.
It's not that I am obsessed with red-browed finches (Neochmia temporalis). They were just coincidentally queued so that you got one on a grass stem a few days ago and this one today.
This one was part of a flock feeding on this cropped grassy patch. The light was just too good for me to ignore them. This one? It was very aware of me, careless and quite happy to pose.
Falkland Islands, Pebble Island
Unfortunately strong wind prevented our small plane from taking us to one of the Islands where this Albatross breeds. On several occasions we saw and photographed them from some distance offshore. The Black-browed Albatross are found circumpolar in sub-Antarctic waters and over 200,000 pair nest on small islands off West Falkland.
White-browed Scrubwren
Sericornis frontalis
Acanthizidae
The White-browed Scrubwren is a drab bird which inhabits the dense undergrowth in many different habitats.
They are also remarkably sedentary, often remaining in the same patch of vegetation.
Sometimes it's best not to be actively searching for birds, but to just sit down and wait. That was certainly the case earlier this week when i was at a local park. Being able to capture some close-ups of a couple Red-browed Finches was my favourite part of the outing.
Polícia-inglesa-do-sul (Sturnella superciliaris), male, adult.
Morretes, Paraná, Brazil.
Animal in wildlife.
Species: A0065