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White-browed Wagtail (Motacilla maderaspatensis) is a resident breeder in India and is endemic to the Indian subcontinent.
Pitiguari (Cyclarhis gujanensis)
(Gmelin, 1789).
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Black-browed Tit (Aegithalos bonvaloti) is a relative of our Long-tailed Tit that is only found in China and northern Myanmar. Last year I published a photograph of a hybrid between Black-browed Tit and Sooty Tit, but at that time I hadn't managed to take a photograph of the Black-browed Tit, and there were very few on Flickr at that time. But this year I managed a photo so here it is. I have posted the other parent species (Sooty Tit) and the hybrid again in the comments below for interest. This Black-browed Tit was photographed at Labahe in Sichuan, China.
This Chalk-browed Mockingbird was perched on the trunk of a tree species that had unusual projections of bark.
This was at the entrance to Parque Nacional El Palmar in the province of Entre Rios, Argentina, South America.
Sericornis frontalis
A bird that rarely ventures out from beyond the sticks & scrub where it is often heard and seldom seen. It was thus a nice surprise to have one pose out in the open for a brief moment before returning to the scrub.
Seen at Marc Newman's place at Ballandean. Marc and Jan have many of these beautiful birds visiting them.
The Red-browed Firetail occurs mostly east of the Great Dividing Range, between Cape York in Queensland and the Mount Lofty Ranges in South Australia. It grows to 10-12cm.
Thalassarche melanophris
Bempton Cliffs, Yorkshire
Taken on its 100th day at Bempton this year, last year arrived later and stayed until early September.. This Albatross is believed to have lived in Europe since 2014, when he is likely to have been blown off course and left unable to return to his breeding grounds in the South Atlantic. It has now spent at least part of its summer amongst the Bempton Gannet colony on 4 occasions first visting in 2017.
Although vagrancies from the South Atlantic are rare, on several occasions a Black-browed albatross has summered in Scottish gannet colonies. A similar incident took place in the gannet colony in the Faroe Islands island of Mykines, where a black-browed albatross lived among the gannets for over 30 years. In July 2013 the first sighting of a Black-browed albatross in the Bahamas was recorded.
The Black-browed albatross feeds on fish, squid, crustaceans, carrion, and fishery discards. This species has been observed stealing food from other species. It can have a natural lifespan of over 70 years.
Spectacular motmot of tropical lowlands, mainly in drier areas. Favors dry forest and edge, semiopen areas with scattered trees, gardens. One of the more conspicuous motmots, especially in spring, when often perches on roadside wires and on open branches. Plumage distinctive, with turquoise brow, turquoise-blue wings and tail with big rackets. Nests colonially at cenotes (sacred wells) in some Maya ruins of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico; motmot nests are burrows dug in banks, like a kingfisher.
Orotina, Alajuela Province Costa Rica
I've finally got round to visiting a few 'celebrity' birds this year with the latest being the black-browed albatross at RSPB Bempton Cliffs. It took a couple of visits but it was well worth the wait, what a bird!
Unusual to see these out in the open, small flocks usually babble away in the bushes and rarely venture out.
The snowy-browed flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Scientific name: Ficedula hyperythra
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Red-browed Finch
Scientific Name: Neochmia temporalis
Description: The Red-browed Finch is most easily recognised by its bright red eyebrow, rump and beak, on an otherwise green and grey bird. Upperparts are olive green with grey underneath. Both sexes are similar in appearance. Often observed in small flocks, which feed on the grass. They will fly into dense undergrowth when disturbed by a passer-by. Red-browed Finches may also be called Red-browed Firetails.
Similar species: Silvereye
Distribution: The Red-browed Finch occurs mostly east of the Great Dividing Range, between Cape York in Queensland and the Mount Lofty Ranges in South Australia
Habitat: The Red-browed Finch is found in grassy areas interspersed with dense understorey vegetation, often along creek lines.
Seasonal movements: Largely sedentary.
Feeding: The Red-browed Finch feeds on seeds and insects on the ground, but sometimes perches on seeding grass heads.
Breeding: The nest of the Red-browed Finch is large and domed, with a side tunnel for an entrance. It is a rough construction of twigs and grass stems built in a dense shrub between 1 and 2 metres from the ground. Both parents share nest-building, incubation of the eggs and feeding of the young when they hatch.
Calls: Short, high-pitched whistles.
Minimum Size: 10cm
Maximum Size: 12cm
Average size: 11cm
Average weight: 11g
Breeding season: October to April
Clutch Size: 4 to 5
Incubation: 14 days
Nestling Period: 22 days
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)
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Apologies for the continuing theme of the Yorkshire Albatross but it was a pretty amazing, and this angle shows its underwing pattern rather than its black back. Black-browed Albatross normally only occurs in the southern hemisphere and its nearest breeding site to Britain is the Falkland Islands which is 8000 miles away. They are habitual ship followers and I'm assuming that is how this one managed to stray so far out of range. But Sooty Shearwaters www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/5511808162/in/photolist also breed in the Falkland Islands and they routinely migrate north to British waters in large numbers every summer (which is the southern hemisphere winter).
There must have been more sunlit shots collectively taken of Arten Gill viaduct on the eastern side in the past two weeks than there have been over the duration of very many years past. From this angle, the last occasion for me was over twenty-one years ago, so I was very happy to obtain this on Friday 31st July 2020. Locomotive Services Ltd.'s D6817 (37521) leads (with 47593 on the rear) the 1Z40 08:35 Skipton to Appleby Rail Charter Services 'Settle & Carlisle Tourist Train' over Arten Gill viaduct, viewed from Stonehouse Brow on the Dent Fell.
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We had a great birding trip to Sri Lanka set up by "Best of Lanka." (www.bestoflanka.com/) We managed to get 30 of 33 endemics thanks to our guide Dhanushka (www.facebook.com/dcliyanage).
I was about to say that this would have been one of the last close views at Bempton, but it appears to have returned!
This is one of many Chalk-browed Mockingbirds we encountered during our Pantanal trip this month. They seemed to be pretty curious birds much like our Northern Mockingbirds here at home.
Mimus saturninus
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All autumn whenever I've been wandering around my local reserves I've been hoping to hear the characteristic call of a yellow-browed warbler. I've seen them before but not in Northants and it has therefore been a high priority for my county list. We were visiting people after Christmas and lo and behold, not one but two yellow-browed warblers turn up at one of my local patches, Summer Leys. After a couple of days of hoping they would stay, I visited and enjoyed a couple of hours with these brilliant little birds
Currently there are 178 photographs of this individual Black-browed Albatross on Birdguides and most of these photographs look pretty much the same (flying with a sea/sky background). Now I know this photograph is cluttered, and it isn't a competition winner, but it is a bit different. First it shows the Albatross flying over the Gannet colony on Staple Neuk at Bempton. Black-browed Albatross is usually only found in the Southern Hemisphere and Northern Gannet is only found in the north, so the two species don't normally come into contact. But more importantly this is a great size comparison with Britain's biggest seabird. Gannets have nearly a six foot wingspan but you can see that looks small next to the Black-browed Albatross's nearly eight foot wingspan right next to it. And the final reason I liked this photograph is that it was really difficult to track and keep it in focus as it flew over the Gannet colony, so I was proud of my achievement.
© Harshith JV
Common name: White-browed wagtail
Scientific name: Motacilla maderaspatensis
Place: Mangalore, Karnataka
Date: December 29, 2016
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Thalassarche melanophris
This one is an adult. I was slightly surprised that the Black-browed was not easily the most numerous Albatross that we saw..... that honour went to Salvin's !
The prolonged presence of "Albert" at Bempton Cliffs means that Flickr is brimming with Black-browed Albatross shots, including several from myself (I typed Yorkshire albatross into Flickr and got more than 1000 hits). Because of this, I wanted to capture albatross images that were clearly not taken at Bempton, and I think that this one ticks all the boxes. In the South Atlantic, Black-browed is by far the most numerous albatross. Most of the time it is difficult to look at the see without seeing one as they are numerous breeders on the Falkland Islands. In 2007 nearly 400,000 pairs bred there, which is about two-thirds of the global population. But as you cross into the colder water past the Antarctic convergence they become noticeably less numerous. So getting them with icebergs in the background is more of a challenge. I took this photo well south of South Georgia when we were en route to Elephant Island.