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Grey Partridges, UK
By Charlie • November 5, 2009 • 4 commentsWhen I was down at Portland Bird Observatory in September I took the chance to photograph a family of Grey Partridge Perdix perdix that had turned up on the island. There’s little doubt that these particular individuals had been deliberately released - either for shooting or perhaps by someone with a more altruistic view that [...]
Adult non-breeding Mediterranean Gulls in flight
By Charlie • October 11, 2009 • 2 commentsAs I wrote in a post earlier this week on 1st winter Mediterranean Gulls, “A bird often mentioned as a potential vagrant to North America is the Mediterranean Gull Larus melanocephalus, a European species which has undertaken a westerly expansion from its core breeding range (which is still almost entirely in the Ukraine and Europe) [...]
Banded Mediterranean Gulls, Dorset
By Charlie • October 4, 2009 • 4 commentsI spent an excellent day yesterday at Portland Bird Observatory and Radipole Lake RSPB Reserve with old friend from way back Richard Crossley, ex-pat Brit, Cape May resident and co-author of the The Shorebird Guide and now well on his way to finishing what could be North America’s best ID guide (more of all of [...]
